last year I attempted to grow a world record giant potato and this year I'm
going to try again and that's coming right up many of you last year followed
me in my little journey to try and grow a world record giant potato now it's
currently held by a gentleman called Peter Glazebrook and he is doing
absolutely superb now I've already done a video on this year's joined potatoes
in the five buckets that you see behind me here okay but I've got these two
large containers and the reason why is this year is part of last year's giant
potato that I grew as you can see there's a big bobble on the end you
sorry a big bottle on the end here that that they cut off and another one on
this side and then it produced six really good chits
so what I've done I've sliced the potato in half as you can see and we've cut out
all the little bobbles and all the other chits and things like that and we've
left them into a snow these are bone dry we've allowed them to dry so we've got
six kits in each so three tits in each or three chutes depending on what you
want to call them and we are going to plant these like this in each of these
containers now before we go any further on these containers guys what we have in
you is some old compost from last year's carrots okay when we did last year's
giant carrots we decided to keep that compost and that's what we're going to
reuse in this but because of that there is nothing left in this feed at all I'm
not here to spend a fortune and these are big lead times these are 110 liters
each so these are big tubs but the potato feed have been using for like
potatoes I'm going to use some of this in these as well
I'm not afraid to to put some feet in here no guys don't get me wrong okay
this could be expensive or the amount of food I'm gonna put in you but I'm only
here to try and producing art one single large potato now I know what some of you
thinking well why have three cheats and the reason being is these buckets are
big enough and it's got a good store of the tuber as well and so each shit
got a chance of producing a good potato so that's why we're putting 3 cheats in
so all I'm going to do is track a load of this in here probably about half in
each and I'm just going to mix it in this bottom half sing with this one
okay so as you can see it's all mixed in nice no now what I have here this is
leaf mold that I produced last year it's still got some twigs and stuff in it as
you can see you know bit of the stalks that I scooped up with the leaves
but I mean look at that it's absolutely stunning stuff now if you want to know
how we make this I'll put a video up here for you guys to have a look at that
but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a layer of this sucker to exhilarate I'm
gonna put a layer this set the potato on it put a layer over the top so the
reason being is leaf mold is really good for holding moisture so this should
really do well holding the moisture around those potatoes and like I said
there's still some twigs I'm finish breaking down yet but look at it it's
absolutely stunning stuff and it it should do good so you still get some
twigs and stuff in it but you don't get compost that good guys so anyway what
we're going to do is put a bed of this down I mean it's still unbroken leaves
in it and stuff but this is what it is okay
in this one hear me up but a few guys are looking to make some fantastically
small like this again have a look at that video guys alright so what we're
gonna do now we're going to sit Nestle our chit down just like that look
alright yeah in this right in the center of both
these tabs and then we're gonna put some more leafmold over the top of both for
them and then we're going to top these tabs up with more of this compost I'm
going to compact the go in a little bit
and I'm gonna leave probably about an inch off the top of this case so this
one is now complete and I'll bring you over to have a little look the reason
they want to do that is because we're going to need to put a lot of water into
this because it is such a big volume of compost there we go
now this composting gonna go to waste again so no only if we used it from last
year we are going to be putting this into the ground after this year so we've
used this you know for a second time it grew root vegetables last year namely
carrots giant carrots and they didn't come to much so we've decided to use
that compost again normally it would have ended out on the ground and I just
need to top this one up and that'll be these other giant potatoes then in sort
of big 110 liter buckets now all the buckets that I use within my videos all
come from Oakland gardens norcold okay if you haven't got buckets or you want
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be the giant out of the way as far as potatoes go for this year and we will
see how they go one thing we do need to do with them though is no support the
foliage as it grow so we're going to put four canes in each of these buckets and
we'll rack tape around those as they grow up just to help them stay vertical
and hopefully we'll pull something decent of you they've got a good genetic
in a potato so it's a variety called condor it was a big potato last year
didn't come close to getting a world record with it but in fact I didn't show
it but I kept the potato back just for this particular thing to produce my own
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