Did you plant your potatoes?

[Voglen]

How everyone is doing with potatoes, did you manage in current times to plant it out?

[Logunner]

All done this week

[Snadger]

Not yet, but intend planting some soon.

[roitelet]

All mine are in.

[ameno]

I got my first and second earlies in a week ago.
Main crop will go in around mid April.

I also have some Violet Queen I bought from Tesco. I really liked them, so I saved five to try growing. I've got them in my conservatory trying to chit them at the moment.

[solway cropper]

Mine are all container grown and I got them all in by yesterday afternoon. Being in containers I can move them around and give protection from frost if needed. I only grow earlies......maincrop are available at a farm up the road.

[Chestnut]

I put them in a couple of weeks ago, just in case we were banned from going to our allotment. I figured I would rather risk late frost than leave them on the windowsill all summer!

[greenishfing]

Not yet. Hopefully very soon.

[burnie]

Still waiting the farmers to plant theirs...…………….

[SarrissUK]

I've not planted any, but then I haven't been to the allotment for a LONG time. I will not be in a hurry though as I will only do salad potatoes this year, and they will only go in once I have filled all the space with all the other things that I want to grow

[Aberdeenplotter]

20th April is the magic date for me

[bikermike]

Mine were in mid-month. I'm now more worried about not being allowed to harvest them...

[Bonjour]

Greenhouse, pot-grown first earlies went in 2nd February and will be ready to harvest about 2-3 weeks from now.

Outside, my International Kidney went in 4 weeks ago and are just about to break surface. Maincrop Desiree and Setanta went in 3 weeks ago, no sign yet.

[self-contained]

If things were different, they would have gone in today, but I don't have enough compost for potatoes and everything else I want to grow. If my landlord will let me dig up a patch of lawn then they could go in next weekend. I say dig up, but would have to just cover the grass with cardboard, cut some holes and place them on the soil, then try to mulch over the top. I don't want to have to dig to get them up (no spade/garden fork, the less I disturb the lawn the better, and the lower the chance of accidentally leaving any behind to cause trouble for future tenants).

[Stan79]

I put 10 potatoes in three bags by the back door in the past week. The rest that will go in the plot at the bottom of the garden will go in as soon as there’s no sign of frost on XCWeather for my postcode!

Due to the current situation I have saved some of last years Charlottes from a hessian sack that have sprouted. Can I plant them? Are the long sprouting shoots just big chits?