patio potatoes

[sweetcorn]

Anyone had any good results from growing spuds in sacks? D'you get good crops from them?

[shirlthegirl43]

There are lots of threads covering growing spuds in bags, buckets or whatever container you fancy - personally, I used morrisons flower buckets last year with one spud to a bucket. got a fair crop but possibly harvested too early. Certainly good enough to encourage me to do more the same way this year. I planted over a period of time so that the spuds would be ready in a staggered way (so I thought - not sure if that is right or not though). They were so tasty I am going to do more buckets and hopefully let them mature longer

[Protea]

I gave my excess seed potatoes to my parents last year, and they grew them in old compost bags. They got a superb yield from them and are planing on doing the same this year.

i am going to grow my potatoes for exhibition in bags so that i get less blemished skin and i can look after them a bit more as i'll keep them at home. (i will have the rest up at the plot tho!)

[sewer rat]

As StG says, loads of grapes, self included, grew tatties in various containers last year. I grew three varietes - Arran Pilot, Foremost and Charlotte in buckets (and my daughter had one seed Charlotte in each half of a halved growbag) All produced a decent crop and as a bonus, they were nice and clean at harvest too !

[Snadger]

I have plenty of rotted cow muck. Would potatoes grow in buckets filled with neat muck and nothing else, do you think?

[Alice]

I grew potatoes in buckets last year - beautiful potatoes and good crop. I planted some in buckets in January in the hope of very early crops. They're up ! so very hopeful for early spuds.

[shirlthegirl43]

I have plenty of rotted cow muck. Would potatoes grow in buckets filled with neat muck and nothing else, do you think?

One way only to find out - try it! Might be the best spuds ever - chase them out!

[sweetcorn]

Will defo trawl through previous threads too, sounds like patio potatoes are for me. Our new garden isn't as large as the allotment I had, so need to use space saving techniques.

Re: manure and potatoes, courgettes always do v. well on manure heaps, so I guess pots do too, I suppose the main thing is that the manure is well rotted or it'll 'burn' the plants?

[bramble]

Alice, which type of potato did you plant in the buckets this year and how many did you put in?