Please keep use updated. I would love to see the potatoes up and growing. Also the harvesting of them would be very interesting.❤ thanks for the video!

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

100% Rose... I'll do a little garden tour video and I'll let you all know how this is getting on... thanks for the interest in this old Irish technique!

Hello, your video just popped up and I've loved watching it twice and then shared to my brothers! How lovely to see a real garden that looks like it could be just over the hedge from us here in Northern Ireland. We've all enjoyed seeing you plant your potatoes this way and are going to try the same caper in my garden. Thanks so much for showing this... You are a good teacher and we have all subscribed so we can see how your potatoes come on and what you get up to next. Health and mobility issues prevent me doing the kind of things I used to do but I still love my garden and want to be out there so I'm very fortunate to have kind brothers happy to help. By the way I absolutely loved the piano playing at the beginning of your video so thank you to the pianist as well! God bless you and your family and may you all have health and strength to enjoy your lovely garden. Vera ❤

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Vera for all your lovely comments... you've really inspired me to keep going with the channel! Aye this is just a regular front garden in Tyrone, maybe not a million miles away from where you are. It's getting late in the year for planting potatoes, but definitely keep this technique in mind for next year... I'll put up another video of what we are getting up to next so stay tuned! And thank you again for your lovely message

LOL All you need is : MUSCLES Looks really cool.. I am going to show my husband this method

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

He might not thank you fir that Cherie!

Fascinating video. It’s amazing to think that those little white chits can make it through the tough grass to become lovely spuds. Thanks for sharing.

A wonderful video. I particularly enjoyed the calming piano music in the background. I'd be interested to see how your lovely garden changes with the seasons. Keep it up.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark! Hopefully it got across the way the garden makes me feel. Always seem to find peace amongst the plants.

@mdmartin1211

Жыл бұрын

The piano was so great! Much appreciated.

Great video!!! Just what I needed after gifted some more potatoes n no where left to plant. Time to bust sod so on with the plow so I chopped up the grass a bit to liberate the dirt and seeing as you just pretty much stripped n flipped, I'm a whole lot more confident they will sprout up throu the thick roots now. Thank you!(I never doubted the potatoe, 😋 just seein what I could get a way with and oh bonus I ploughed up an old Horseshoe 🍀)

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Haha! The luck of the Irish is with you Wayne! Good man yourself. Did you put down manure or compost first? The spud is a mighty plant but it's hungry and needs good nutrition to get the oomf to push through the sod

Thank you for sharing this age old method with us.

Always love to learn new things. Thanks from NewJersey.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome... from Co. Tyrone!

Great stuff. There are so many ways of growing potatoes - but this method makes great use of the grass that grows so easily in the winter.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Patrick... aye its more labour than some methods like no dig, but it's the quickest way to start building topsoil jn places where its very poor like my sandy hill!

@ChristopherSuddarth

Жыл бұрын

What is the song name being played by a pianist?

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thats me playing the piano... its a cover of "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift... I hope you enjoyed it!

Freedom is a wonderful thing. Freedom to watch freedom not to. Individuals can only speak for themselves. Some seem to think to speak for everyone. Sign of the times? I watch many KZread vids on growing food. I personally like a diversity of styles of presentation including your vid where I feel like I’ve stopped to smell the roses. And not a rose in sight! 😳😎✅

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Glenn! I'm glad you got a good vibe from the video... of course I'm always open to feedback and I'm just getting started, but I hope to share the peaceful feeling I get from nature with everyone... Good luck with your garden

@glennmaillard5972

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland ✅

This is really interesting. I am in Scotland and starting a new garden from weedy turf. I'll be trying this for my tatties for sure

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thays brilliant... aye a few people from Scotland have commented to say they do this for their spuds too, so I'd say crack on... anything that works on these wee North Atlantic islands is worth sharing with each other. I hope you keep watching

I always grow my tatties like that,love from scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Awesome Belinda! Half my family are Scottish originally. We are all cousins on these islands really and our ancestors shared lots of thoer culture together, including growing potatoes!

Lovely. Very interesting. Looking forward to see the harvest

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

So unfortunately there's not going to be a harvest... the manure I brought in has got weedkiller still on the straw... if never heard of it before but its called aminopyralid and its killed my spuds! In going to do a video about it as a warning to everyone! Thanks for watching though... hopefully it'll be interesting to watch what happens next

Ty for teaching us I’m new to gardening❤

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Amazing! Keep going... we all teach each other and there's no mistakes only lessons from the true teacher... nature herself!

So trying this on my plot. 👍👍

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Go for it Craig! Let us know how ye get on

Looks good

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

This is awesome! I love seeing old ways that modern farming has left in the past. I'll be trying this!!

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Class stuff John... aye the old ways are the new ways. Good luck with your experiments and let us know how ye get on

Nice to see the old ways, i'm in Scotland and our last frost is early June but the way the earth is going i'm not sure any more. I'm no till as well these days, i put all my spuds in mid April and if frost is forecast i cover with polythene.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Good idea that Kip... aye I have a bunch of spuds in already in the no dig fashion... this method helps me build organic matter in my sandy soil really quickly so I use it in the early years to get going. Then I'll transition this area to no dig and repeat on a new bit of lawn!

I love this ❤

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Yve!

great video, thank you Daniel

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Sean... good man yourself for leaving the feedback

Thanks for the wonderful video. Potato 🥔 growing year round here in the South in the States. Family is from County Tyrone, Cork, and my sons Dad was from Galway. I haven’t been back to Ireland in far too long.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Ach wow! Great to hear that you are so interested in your roots on this wee Island... you have the place well covered!

@CabinGRL

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland 🙌🏼♥️ I miss Ireland. My grandmother on mom’s side used to say things to mom when she was little when complaining about having big feet like “Nobody’ll notice on a galloping horse and that’s the kind you ride”. She died before I was born. Her father was a medical doctor named Euphrates Manning Cox he was six foot six with black hair and a handlebar mustache. Euphrates is a terror of a name. His people were from Cork. He caught tuberculosis from one of the cadavers they used at the medical school in Alabama and died otherwise he would have probably lived a long life.

I notice you put the grass face down and the roots facing outwards? I presume the grass dies and adds to the fertility of the ground above the planted potatoes? I live in South Africa, weather a lot drier here, do you water the piles or do you get enough rain to take care of that chore?

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Haha! So yes, we get enough rain here in Ireland! Our problem is often too much... So yes, the grass is face down, and then later on when the potatoes have grown a bit, I'll cover them with more soil. That way the grass will die and add to the fertility as you say. When I break the mounds apart at harvest time, I'll spead the soil flat in the space and I will have doubled up the organic matter in my sandy soil.

@shadyman6346

Жыл бұрын

In the states, we call it double digging. Usually used to prep new garden areas...

Really interesting, thank you!!

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Annie!

I've never seen this method before (I'm in the States), and I found this very interesting. What a quick way to start a new area. I'm excited to see the harvest in a few months.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Ach thank you.. Unfortunately the manure I used was poisoned with weedkiller and so it's killed the spuds... another video is coming out soon to show what's happened and to demonstrate what to do now. My no dig spuds are coming on great so well not starve anyway! Thanks for watching

@Yotaciv

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland How poetic.

Great video! I'm far too lazy to do lazy beds. :) No dig is easier on the back.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

It is surely. I do the no dig as my main method... but for my ground I have to donit on raised beds since the soil is just too poor. This way I get to build up organic matter and get some extra inches of topsoil in future years. I'll do a wee video on my no dig spuds to compare Thanks for watching!

Im Scottish on my Fathers side, but can I ask, about not about the growing technology, but more about the preparing to cook side, I dont think I would be comfortable not peeling the spuds, with all that dung around, I like the skins left on.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Good point Charles... but by the time the spuds are swelling the manure should have been composted by the worms!

@charlesmancat7666

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland Good point express, I can drop your man your contact details, and he can send you a boiling, and you can check your temperature the day after you have had a platefull. Make sure they are worm free.

Very intersting

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Grace... hopefully get a few more out

🌈💚🍀

How old is that manure? Looked pretty fresh, with lots of bedding in there too.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Its full of bedding true enough but it was six months old when I got it and then two months sitting in the yard... however I've found a much worse problem! It's full of herbicide! The potatoes are dying! I'm gonna make another video to show whats happened and what to do next...

@priestesslucy3299

Жыл бұрын

​@@earthboundireland_Sigh_ We're running into this problem in the states as well. Who in their right mind thinks its a good idea to spray a pasture or a hayfield!?

Ancient ways? Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with the introduction of potatoes to Ireland in 1589 which I think can be consider younger than ancient don't you?.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

It's the digging is ancient... not the spuds. A hyperbolic rhetorical style is an ancient Gaelic characteristic going back to the myths and bards of our illustrious and distant past, and has given rise to Ireland's ability to continually punch above its weight in producing authors and thinkers through the ages... our indigenous knack of taking the English language (and potatoes!), and make them our own is one of our most endearing characteristics for which we are rightly celebrated around the world. I wouldn't be too hasty in celebrating the English involvement in the Irish potato scene mo buachaill, as that story doesn't end well! Thanks for watching... stay tuned for more Gaelic culture. 😉

@njd2342

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland To be sure 'Express the Best' and to split infinitives continually

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

To defiantly split infinitives definitely coutinues to be an infinite source of amusement in this fine yet sadly all too finite island; though you may be yet to finally grasp it, my most refined and punctillious interlocutor, there is a defined difference in our modes of being... one mode lives to love life and to be worthy of the blessings of my ancestors, which I carry in my pocket like fine sand. The other lives to argue the finer points of grammar on the Internet. I'm sorry my joyful participation in my culture triggered your animosity. I wonder why? What do you have against us fun and freedom loving folk? Our gardening? Our grammar?

@njd2342

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland I misplace my fork from time to time and prod a potato.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Haha! That's the spirit. May your spuds ever prosper in your garden sir. Thank you fornyour interest and your repartee

what is the name of the song you played?

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

It's "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift!

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying the music! Apparently if you play music to plants they enjoy it too!

Feel free to delet my comment after reading it. - I haven't watched the whole video. I am turning off now, after looking at some pots for a full minute. Its not even a great view. It feels like a giant waste of time. I dont mind watching a 45 minute video from anybody, as long as something interesting happens. Maybe some peope are more patient than me. But I dont think many people like watching some irrelevant filler footage for a full minute. Especially right at the beginning of the video. Maybe check your statistics, to see if you are not loosing quite a few viewers during that time.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thats ok Katrin... my content might not be for you... I'm trying to provide an antidote to the frantic pace of life at the moment and the garden is a sanctuary from all the immediacy and business of the day to day world. I'm not that worried about views. You can always skip the bits you aren't interested in, or not watch the video. It's all OK with me. Good luck with your garden and may you find peace there.

@katrininsweden2856

Жыл бұрын

@@earthboundireland That's cool then👍 I do agree, that times are crazy and that the garden can be a sanctuary😊 I wish you all the best with your KZread channel.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I still hope you do watch the informative bits of the video if you want to know about this method of growing... I promise the information in there after the music! 😄

Lordy!, three minutes in before any gardening took place. Im out. Gotta be a more concise vid out threre.

@earthboundireland

Жыл бұрын

There definitely are! Loads of them... I am trying something different, and capture the peace and serenity that I find in being out in nature. Our ancestors had a totally different appreciation of time, everything happened in its moment. I'm trying to share some of the moments that occur spontaneously when we allow time to settle. Thanks for watching...