A cheap alternative to potato growing bags?

[crazy_red]

I use this site lots. Very good prices on all sorts of garden, decorating and DIY stuff.

Found these Blackspur garden bags today and thought I might try them pending how I get on this year with container taties before buying the posh version from Marshall's etc.

Enjoy!

Crazy Red

Huge range of Garden Bags from Choiceful.com. Free delivery from £45.

[Suechooks]

Even cheaper are used tyres - they're free! I've used them and had excellent results - better than anything else I tried! Good enough for Bob Flowerdew!!

[Diva1983]

I was recently thinking about this too and thought about the concept of using heavy duty bin bags:

How to Grow Easy Trash Bag Potatoes! | eHow.com

Seems quite straight forward and I'm considering this as the way forward for the spuds I'm growing this year.

Diva

[hooraynana]

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

[crazy_red]

My thinking was that as I would have to put in drainage holes, if I didn't grow taties in them again, I could use them for composting or leaf mulch making etc.

Also the handles would make it much easier for me to move them around - i'm only a bit dropped off, lol

[Victoria26]

I used those pop up garden bins last year - worked ok on my first earlies but the seconds and the maincrops suffered really bad with blight! You will have to put drainage holes in them tho.

Good luck x

[Mcbee]

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

Snap - worked a treat 4 me 2!

[kate&rob]

i'm going to plant my first earlies in the flower buckets that morrisons sell, 99p for 6 i think they were last time i bought some. bought a load then cut them down to a reasonable size for growing my chilli plants in. cheap alternative for large plant pots.

[crazy_red]

Lots of people have mentioned flower buckets. Maybe I will try a few buckets as well and compare my results, then.

Red

[Finedon.Dandy]

Just rung up one of our local tyre places to find out what they do with all their old tyres and they said they shred them. So I asked if I could have some and I can have as many as I want! Brilliant for us as the space in the scheme of my crop rotation has meant very little space for spuds this year!

[bluemoon]

Heavy duty bin-bags can still be quite flimsy and let in light, the compost bag idea works, but we don't have enough. Bags which have contained dog-food are similar though and work just as well. I only grow a few first earlies this way though.

[Jenegade]

My compost bags are white on the inside. Do you think I could use them for potatoes if I put a black bin bag inside?

[sarraceniac]

Here are a couple of my cheap alternatives.

[SlugLobber]

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

I did this last year and it worked great!

[Two_Sheds]

My compost bags are white on the inside.

I don't think the spuds will mind