Growing Potatoes in Carbon – Part 5 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials

I usually grown vegetables in soil, with compost or other forms of compost added, but this year I took the opportunity of growing potatoes in a wide range of different carbon based materials. This was part of the big potato grow bag trials that we did this year, and some of the plants were very successful and others failed, but I learned a lot about how to get all of these non-soil based growing medium to produce a lot more potatoes.

0:00 Carbon vs Mineral
1:02 A lot of grow bags of potatoes
2:15 A better crop from carbon
3:13 Why is carbon better?
4:02 Water issues
5:10 Issues with municipal compost
6:48 Better compost
7:55 Mushroom compost and woodchip
9:38 Potting and rooftop mix
11:39 Straw and hay
12:57 Nutrients and decomposition

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