🍁 Supersoil With & Without Compost Experiment 🍂Charlotte Potato Reveals & December Winter Harvest ❄️

[@glassbackdiy3949]

From what I can work out Tel, looking at it under the scope, and satelite view of their industrial site, SS is humic acid extracted from compost (chemical extraction, which is why it's so expensive). Now then, you can buy powdered humate that is mined from fosilized remains, which is natural, and contains more minerals, for ~£25 a Kg.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@glassbackdiy3949 thank you Pete.

[@lesleysmith6232]

Are you sure about that, Pete. I thought Humic acid didn't contain any micro organisims. Using SS as per Terrys method in the newly mixed compost seems to considerably increase the temperature, indicating the prescence of bacteria.

[@glassbackdiy3949]

@@lesleysmith6232 SS doesn't contain any life under the microscope, it looks exactly the same as Humic Acid powder. SS is humic IMO, so it will have a very similar effect on soil/compost. Humic is a biostimulant, it will stimulate microbial activity, making whatever nutrients are in the soil/compost bioavailable (more easily absorbed by plants than the chemical/mineral ionic pathway) with a corresponding increase in microbial activity (which is why you get more heat, microbial reproduction=heat). If you'd like to know more about Humic/fulvic substances Diego Footer has a very interesting long form interview with a Humic expert on his channel.

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Hahaha....I'm listening to you trying to figure out the logic of Worms climbing up the sides of the bucket. I hope you asked the worms, "What were you guys thinking?" Your potatoes look better than our store bought 🥔🥔 Take care and I hope you and Mrs.K are having a festive Christmas 🎅🎄🤶 ❤Peggy❤

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 Mrs K is doing well and more treatment and scans over Christmas, but considering her health in the summer we are just glad we can have this Christmas together.

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

@terrykingsallotmentgardening I'm glad you are able to enjoy time together in front of the fireplace...Dream about your future together ❤️

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920 continues to make my job list bigger.......🤣.

[@briansgardenandpolytunnel8172]

this is the first year i've managed to save 3 buckets of charlottes for christmas. something for me to look forward to harvesting......................brian

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@briansgardenandpolytunnel8172 can't beat having them straight out of the ground and then on the plate, enjoy them.

[@petertodd7422]

Beautiful clean spuds my favourites Charlotte's well done 😊😊

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@petertodd7422 they do make for great Christmas Potato.

[@Brenda-xc7sq]

Charlotte are my favourite, nice harvest of good looking spuds.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@Brenda-xc7sq thank you Brenda, they tasted great.

[@Tea_and_thyme_2012]

Lovely harvest you got there Terry. I love the toilet brush drill it makes me laugh every time I see you use it. Keep em coming, 🤣

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@Tea_and_thyme_2012 I know that's why I keep showing it .........😁.

[@myrustygarden]

A bit late we were fixing the wall of the poly it needed new plastic, but wow what a great spud harvest. I certainly hope you are all safe ❤, Ali 🥶🇨🇦

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@myrustygarden we stayed indoors Ali, too dangerous to go outside, just chasing the patio chairs around the garden.......🤣.

[@FreeYourMindArt]

Nice harvest Terry, the Charlottes look yummy

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@FreeYourMindArt very tasty, we had the small ones on a nice meal.

[@MrLaking123]

I think its a bonus if anyone gets some sort of a harvest this year the way the weather has been

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@MrLaking123 so very true and we need to adapt out gardening methods to ensure we get something what ever is thrown at us.

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Good harvest Terry, super soil looks slightly better.👌🙏😁❤️👍

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@nickthegardener.1120 yes it does on this reveal Nick, nice tasting potatoes.

[@reddishrascals6109]

I have not been down to my plot for three weeks as been doing diy ready for Christmas, will be going down later, I will let you know what we harvest.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@reddishrascals6109 I try and mix up my DIY and gardening so that I don't get fed up, but haven't been out of the house this weekend due to the horrific weather.

[@jmawdsley2]

Quality content as always. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@jmawdsley2 thank you John.

[@NanasWorms]

Careful with that wheelbarrow handle, Terry! Mrs. K will be spoiled for choice with that harvest ❤️. We still have loads of greens on the go plus leeks and herbs. ~ Sandra

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@NanasWorms the potatoes were very nice especially the small ones, my elderly parents had the biggest. Nice to have something to harvest throughout the season.

[@ibrstellar1080]

The toilet brush earing it's keep again 😁.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@ibrstellar1080 👍😁😁😁😁😁😁❤️😁😁😁😁😁😁👍

[@babetteisinthegarden6920]

Looking good. I'm starting to Transplant My oriental cabbages. And a few flower seeds. You have a lot of beetroot coming up.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@babetteisinthegarden6920 well done Babette.

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

Nice one Terry. Like someone commented on my SS trials: Could be the seeds spud in the SS compost were always going to produce more. Can't argue with that, and I can't grow 100s of lots to prove either way!

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@DigwellGreenfingers I still have some trials to reveal, but it's one all at the moment after two reveals.

[@DigwellGreenfingers]

@@terrykingsallotmentgardening I still think that SS only gives "great" results if it is used to improve bad soil or compost. Many comments online say they see no difference, but their soil would rival that of Kew Gardens LOL

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@DigwellGreenfingers thank you for sharing this Steve.

[@GordonjSmith1]

Got to love a bit of 'bog brush action'! Joking aside, every time I see a 'Supersoil' experiment the yield is often higher, but the variation in size of the potatoes is always more with the additive - which suggests that the plant is not entirely 'happy'... but for sure if you want a larger crop.... Nice 'chokes' by the way...

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@GordonjSmith1 two reveals so far and it's one all at the moment, the chokes were very nice and produced plenty of wind.......🤣.

[@allotmentjoy]

Lovely potatoes Terry. Can't get fresher spuds than that. It's hard to say how parsnips fair, until you pull them out. My carrots were hit with carrot root fly as well. I'll be covering them over next year. Terry 👍, Mrs K ❤ 🎅🎄

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@allotmentjoy I will be moving beds with the carrots, it wasn't clever to grow them in the same place for 4 years so rotation is back on the cards.

[@allotmentjoy]

@terrykingsallotmentgardening I think I will plant mine elsewhere too. Good idea 👍

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@allotmentjoy 👍❤️🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕❤️👍

[@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305]

Hey Terry 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 We all just love potato harvest and Terry toilet brush in action 😁 Pentland javelin used to be my favourite potato but now Charlotte have taken their place..😋😋😋 I know you eat the fartichokes raw, but do you cook with them, if so how do you cook them? Cheers my friend...😊🐮🐮🐮

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305 we tryed cooking them and they tasted of plastic so haven't tryed since then Manda Moo.

[@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305]

@terrykingsallotmentgardening try making chips with them, make fat chip though, thin ones not very nice...😊🐄🐄🐄

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@@mandamoosgardeningadventur8305 👍😁❤️😋❤️😁👍

[@sowgroweat6987]

Lol my wheelbarrow tries to trip me up like that as well 🙂 Good harvest from either batch and blemish free (which is important). Well forget why did the Chicken cross the road lets replace with why di the worm crawl up the sides of buckets? Nice bit of toilet brush action there sir 🙂 ooo forgot the ❤

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@sowgroweat6987 I find worms inside all my containers that have water in, but we can't stop them just rescue what we can.

[@nidge2822]

Spuds look really good mate ,I've never had much luck with potatoes either in buckets (rats digging them up ) or In the ground ,I'm looking forward to helping rose in her new plot this year with her adopting 2 large green houses she's got lots of room now for setting seeds 😊,a question if I may ask mate do you lime your beds forthe sake of it ? ,some old timer says ya do especially oinion beds ? I will supersoil all of them a few weeks before planting tho ,great video as always thanks for the entertainment mate 👍 😉

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@nidge2822 I personally only lime my brassicas beds, but following a 4 year rotation it should be done for two seasons and then followed by two seasons of manure.

[@nidge2822]

Cheers mate 👍

[@ibrstellar1080]

Those look tatties look nice and no scabs or slug damage😁.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@ibrstellar1080 the quality beats any quantity.

[@Lauralearningtogrow]

Great looking spuds there Terry shame about the carrots and the root fly... why do you think they got attacked? As your beds are high and is sweet candle not carrot root fly resistant?

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@Lauralearningtogrow I was trying to be clever and grow them in the same place every year and they have got worse so maybe once they get contaminated the grub/fly stays in the soil and emerges and doesn't have to fly far to lay their eggs. Video update on what I will do in the future.

[@ibrstellar1080]

I have containers over 4ft up off the ground yet the carrot fly still got into them and it was fresh soil that was dug around 12 inches from the surface so I think can clearly fly higher than the claim3d 18 inches.

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@ibrstellar1080 I think so too so 100% Protection is needed.