[vikingraider]

I've just watched a youtube vid where someone put potatoes on the ground then covered them with grass clippings. Has anyone tried this? Do the grass clippings get too hot/turn into a mat? On the vid the woman only showed her starting the process then harvesting a different crop

[Goosegirl]

Last year I grew my pots in tubs and covered the top with grass clippings and they didn't turn into a mat, they just helped with water retention. Make sure you haven't used lawn weed and feed until the lawn had had 3-4 mowings.

[mumofstig]

I've just watched a youtube vid where someone put potatoes on the ground then covered them with grass clippings. Has anyone tried this? Do the grass clippings get too hot/turn into a mat? On the vid the woman only showed her starting the process then harvesting a different crop

I don't see how this would work if they were just under a layer of grass clippings, tbh.

In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5gOrUMEuw8  she says she uses a 6in layer of grass plus 6-8ins of old chicken bedding... and then says she earthed them up( with more clippings/manure I suppose) so that's clearly enough for the potatoes to grow as normal..
It is however, an awful lot of material to collect... great if you do actually have access to large quantities of old chicken bedding and lawn clippings, though 

[vikingraider]

Yes that's the woman, MoS. I watched different vids though, it appears she has a few. You never seem to watch her go the full year with her potatoes, it cuts to different years/veg plots. I might try one potato using my grass clippings(no weed or feed or anything). I have quite a large lawn so should have enough clippings, although there's lots of moss in it

[mumofstig]

Do you have the chicken manured bedding, cos to my thinking, that is more important than the grass....

Obviously I've no personal experience, though. If you do try putting potatoes on the soil and just covering over with grass clipping, don't forget to let us know how you get on Good luck!

[Snow]

I do "no dig" potatoes, but I do put them in a hole a few inches down.i earth them up with lawn clippings, straw and comfrey. Only first earlies which need little earthing up, I don't think I could do it that way with maincrops at all, they require far too much earthing up and I don't have any spare compost when I would need it for them.

[vikingraider]

I dug my experiment plant up today. I planted one charlotte potato in an old builders bucket with a few inches of compost(homebargains 2023 vintage) at the bottom. Then earthed up with a mixture of home made compost and grass clippings. Not bad results

[Blewit]

I experimented one year by growing a row of second earlies under a thick layer of leaves (collected the previous autumn). The leaves blew about so needed holding down with chicken wire until the potato haulms had grown sufficiently and although the harvest was reasonable, slug damage was far higher than in other beds.
I wonder if grass clippings might also attract the slugs.