Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
Last year I finally grew a good quality main crop variety of potato in a range of different growing spaces. I was impressed by how much they could produce and intrigued by how much I was able to learn.
Help me develop these gardens and make more videos through regular contributions patreon.com/redgardens
Or use paypal.me/redgardens as a simple, once-off way to support this project and the time and energy that goes into making videos. Thanks so much!
Check out my other channel youtube.com/@BlackPlotCollective
Part of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland http://www.thevillage.ie
0:00 Learning From Main Crop Potatoes
0:37 Variety selection is important
1:38 A cool season crop
2:11 Plants can get too big
2:48 They can store in the ground
3:29 One rotten potato …
4:07 A band of compost
4:59 Erosion of compost mound
5:43 Lifting the bed
6:31 Digging in a No-Dig Garden
7:15 Variability in the row
8:01 Very short stolons
8:44 Very long stolons
9:26 Spacing does matter
10:06 Yield can be huge
10:47 So much from each plant
11:39 But why?
Last year I finally grew a good quality main crop variety of potato in a range of different growing spaces. I was impressed by how much they could produce and intrigued by how much I was able to learn.
Help me develop these gardens and make more videos through regular contributions patreon.com/redgardens
Or use paypal.me/redgardens as a simple, once-off way to support this project and the time and energy that goes into making videos. Thanks so much!
Check out my other channel youtube.com/@BlackPlotCollective
Part of the Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary, Ireland http://www.thevillage.ie
0:00 Learning From Main Crop Potatoes
0:37 Variety selection is important
1:38 A cool season crop
2:11 Plants can get too big
2:48 They can store in the ground
3:29 One rotten potato …
4:07 A band of compost
4:59 Erosion of compost mound
5:43 Lifting the bed
6:31 Digging in a No-Dig Garden
7:15 Variability in the row
8:01 Very short stolons
8:44 Very long stolons
9:26 Spacing does matter
10:06 Yield can be huge
10:47 So much from each plant
11:39 But why?
