Unusual technology for growing potatoes

There are two types of summer gardeners: those who grow vegetables and flowers mainly for their own pleasure, and those who strive, by investing maximum effort, to obtain a commensurate harvest. The second category of gardeners reads a lot about growing processes, about new products in the field of gardening, in order to keep abreast of innovations and techniques that allow increasing the fruiting of grown crops.

For such people who are interested, the original will be considered potato growing technology.

The new is the well-forgotten old. This technology was used 200 years ago, but then it was forgotten, but in vain. It's about growing potatoes... under straw! Surprised? And this method creates a kind of thermal curtain around the tuber, providing a certain microclimate that promotes high yields.

The essence of the technology for growing under straw is as follows: on unloosened (!) beds, potato tubers are laid out at a distance of 30 cm from each other, but they are not buried or covered with soil, but covered with a layer of straw 35-40 cm thick. You do not need to dig up the beds, loosen the soil, dig holes for each tuber !

Caring for potatoes planted in this way is simple: sometimes add fresh straw and water.

When in the fall your neighbors dig up potatoes without straightening their backs, you instead simply lift up the straw and collect 4-5 large, ripe, clean potatoes!

According to reviews from gardeners, the technology for growing potatoes under straw allows you to get 380 kg of selected tubers per hundred square meters!

I hope you are interested in this method and will try it in your garden.