I'm so proud!

[Annette]

Hi Everyone,
It's been a long time since I've written - sorry, wasn't ignoring you all.
As a novice gardener, today was very exciting (which I had to get my hubby to capture on film). Planted our potatoes, in buckets, mid-Feb and 3 and a half months later we 'dug' them and ate them!!!!
I'm so chuffed I just had to share with you all.
We got all of these from one bucket!!!
Cheers
Annette

[Alice]

Brilliant Annette. What variety were they. I'm growing Charlotte in buckets. They look great and I can't wait to see the crop - or to eat it. What else are you growing. Keep us posted. And send the pics. I juat love to see what other people growing.

[poultrychat]

Well done Annette, I grew my first potatoes last year and I can still remember the surprise and shock that wow there were actually potatoes under the ground and I was so chuffed - nothing beats growing your own, well done.

[blackkitty]

Well done Annette. It's eating that first crop that makes it all seem so worthwhile.

[pigletwillie]

Brilliant Annette, they look brilliant. We are experimenting with growing them in 1's, 2's and 3's in 25 litre plastic recycled oil barrels. We were a little disorganised this year so didnt plant them until nearly May. If its successful and yeilds of clean un slug eaten potatoes are good we will forgoe planting them in the ground next year and just "go max" with the barrels. More room then for sweetcorn.

[Annette]

Thanks for your kind words.
I think those potatoes were the best I'd ever eaten!
Alice, they were Maris Peer - 2nd earlies apparently (whatever that means!). I am also growing Dwarf beans, courgettes, herbs, tomatoes, lettuce and peppers in pots or buckets and I've got mangetout and lettuce in the ground. A friend gave me some maincrop peas on the weekend so I've just planted them in pots and have them brewing in the airing cupboard. I'll be planting them in the ground aswell once they're ready.
I'm not sure what to do with my used potato compost now. The roots break up fairly easily so I'm not left with great clumps of earth but I don't know if it's good for anything.
PW, we also experimented (actually the whole growing thing is an experiment), by putting 1, 2 or 3 seed potatoes in a bucket. They're only the B&Q buckets so not really big enough for 3 I think, but we thought we'd see what happens. These potatoes came from a '2' bucket.
Annette

[Doggler]

Fantastic, well done Annette. Can definitely understand that "proud" feeling. I feel a huge sense of achievement when my seeds germinate properly so goodness knows what I'm going to feel like when I start to get actual veg

I too am a fan of the old orange bucket. Got carrots and parsnips growing in mine.

[lyndap]

Potatoes look fab.Now Iv'e seen your slug free spuds, I might give them a go next year.They never do any good on our allotment,and I gave up growing them.Will try them in buckets then.

[sewer rat]

Annette
Congrats and who could blame you for being so obviously chuffed with your results.
I am growing some potatoes in pots this year - Arran Pilot, Foremost and Charlotte - am looking forward to harvesting mine later this year.
You could use your spent potato compost for leeks - this is my intention anyway - it was suggested by another grape on another thread, and as I have no room left in my garden for any more veg, will be using my potato buckets as and when they become available.