Vadim Fedorovsky

Thanks for the help! Literally the day I got all these responses, lo and behold I walk outside and...of course there were beautiful potato sprouts!

They are now about 4 to 6 inches tall.

So, I am assuming it's time to start the "hilling" process?

What would you recommend? I know it can be done with either dirt or straw... My compost pile is mainly hay that I use for my chickens' bedding. I was thinking about using that.

Thanks for the all the help, everyone! We ended up using some old greenhouse parts and wood to build a nice run for them. The ladies were loving it today!

Thanks for all the help, everyone! I am taking it all in and deciding what to do.

Keep the ideas coming

This is my first year planting potatoes. I planted an organic blue variety from Maine.

I planted them on 4/21/14.

Looking for two pieces of information:

1. When can I expect them the sprouts to pop up out of the ground?
2. What will the sprouts look like?

thanks!

Andrew Parker wrote:I made a 4'x4' coop and a 4'x8' run using Mittleider's pvc pipe greenhouse designs, resized for 4' rolls of chicken wire. That was 10 years ago and they have held up pretty well. If you are interested, I could measure them and post a parts list.

Yes please! That would be very helpful!

Just to clarify: I have a coop. What I need to construct is a place for them to graze all day but not get out and wander into the neighbor's lawn.

Hi all. I have two rhode island reds. The neighbor has finally complained that I need to keep them off his lawn. So, no more free ranging for nadine and angela...

As the subject line states, I need a fast and cheap solution as I am on a tight budget and they are getting pretty pissed since they're used to being formerly free range ALL day.

I am open to any and all ideas.

Thanks permies!

Eric Thompson wrote:

Vadim Fedorovsky wrote:But is the natural way feasible on as large of a scale as is needed to feed the world?

Sure, there is plenty of energy there - even a lot that is wasted. My apple trees run from a large scale fusion reactor and do just fine. In fact they would have trouble if this reactor didn't direct 99.99999999999% of its energy away from the planet...

Please elaborate. I am not sure if I understand you completely. Your apple trees run from a large scale fusion reactor? What do you mean?

Ken Peavey wrote:I'm thinking an electric arc in a fusion reactor has nothing whatsoever to do with permaculture, organic, or natural growing.
Seems to me the whole idea is still focused on maximizing production through mechanical processes rather than using holistic methods mimicking nature.
This arc process is simply a technology to substitute for the Haber-Bosch process. A more natural way to increase nitrogen availability would be to promote legumes.

I get what you're saying.

But is the natural way feasible on as large of a scale as is needed to feed the world?

Hello all. Has anyone here heard of this: http://fusionfarming.com/fusion-farming/fertilizer-and-food/

What they seem to be doing is using plasma (the fourth state of matter) treated water, which is very high in nitrogen, as an "organic" fertilizer. The plasma treated water also supposedly has very positive results when mixed with chicken manure and then used with fertilizer. From what I can tell, there hasn't been much testing of this in the field.

Has anyone heard that plants grow better after a lightening storm? I ask because that is essentially what they are doing here: running water through artificial, controlled lightening (plasma).

I'd really like to see what people on here have to say on this and how a process such as this would fall in regard to permaculture and organic farming practices.