Since my site is quite low, the soil remains waterlogged for a long time after rain. To prevent crops from rotting, I asked to make me high beds. When the boxes were installed, it turned out that I had no land to fill them.
So that the beds are not empty waiting for compost, I decided to plant potatoes in the available land, and then spud it with freshly cut grass. Over time, the filler had to rot, gradually raising the soil level.
To be of any use from hilling grass, it had to be finely ground. A hand-held lawn mower has coped with this task.
Part of the grass after mowing was quite coarse, and part was like green gruel. Both types could be used for hilling. First, I laid the viscous mass, and then sprinkled it with the rest. The bed after the procedure looked like this.
Otherwise, caring for the experimental potato beds was no different from caring for the classic planting.
By midsummer, the tops looked healthy and strong enough. This year, pests bypassed my site. In August, nothing extraordinary happened to the culture either, which I was very happy about.
I started harvesting in mid-September. There were potatoes under each bush, but there weren't very many of them. Probably, it was due to the lack of fertile land.
Below I photographed the harvest of three bushes in different parts of the garden. To my surprise, there weren't many green potatoes.
The potato size was poor. Below is a photograph of the first batch laid out for preliminary drying.
Considering that the potatoes were covered only by the cut grass, the result can be called quite good. As for the level of the beds, the difference can be estimated in the spring, when all the green mass finally decays.
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