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Discutafel podcast 82: ‘strawing up’ potatoes

Potatoes in bag with straw
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Listen to episode 82 below.
Publication date: 16-07-20.
Duration: 15:06.
Host: Ivonne Smit.
Illustration: potatoes in bag filled with straw.

Episode 82: ‘strawing up’ potatoes

Content

Earthing up potatoes? Ivonne shares her experience with ‘strawing up’: not filling the growing bag with layers of soil, but mulching with straw. And she’s obviously going through a learning curve! 

Harvesting potato Monalisa, grown in bag with straw
Harvesting potato Monalisa, grown in bag with soil and straw, July 14, 2020.

Links

Ivonne mentions the ‘potato towers’ she read about. Interested? There are lots of articles and videos on the subject on internet. For example:

  • Growing potatoes using a potato tower
    Blog
  • Growing potatoes in towers
    Nice TouTube video, go to https://youtu.be/n5IpQPJ6ECg. But please don’t use the peat mentioned in the video, for environmental reasons.

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