Aquaponic Potatoes

[GaryD]

Hi Colin,

This was our most successful AP potato setup to date. We used coco-peat and watered the potatoes once or twice a day (depending on whether we remembered). I usually start bandicooting the chap potatoes long before they get to being mature so our harvests are generally less than they could be. Having said that, we did well out of these tubes with 1/2 to 3/4 of a bucket of little potatoes out of each one.

Gary

[GaryD]

Hi,

When I planted out the clay pebble grow bed, a few weeks ago, I planted a potato plant that had taken root in one of our wicking beds.

I'm not the sort of person who'll die for the want of knowing so today I pulled the potato bush up to see what was happening.

As the photos illustrate, tiny potatoes have formed and I'm satisfied that, left to their own devices, they would have grown into chat potatoes. Most of the potatoes that I grow seem to die once they reach chat size.....from being boiled and smothered in butter.

This is the first time I've grown potatoes in a clay pebble bed - and, based on the results of this little experiment, I'd like to give them a more comprehensive test.

Gary