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!
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. But please don’t use the peat mentioned in the video, for environmental reasons.
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