Is it worth growing potatoes small scale?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Nice one Two Sheds just shows what can be done with a bucket, a little compost and the know how.


Colin

[LilB]

It'll be my first time growing veg in containers (I've not actually grown veg before at all!). With there being only two of us, I'll probably use 2-3 of the potato grow bags to see how I get on.

It's just choosing which varieties!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Lil B,
You will love it, I have been growing in containers for nearly 20 years and with a little thought found there is very little you cannot grow. It is getting easier all the time as there are now lots of purpose bred smaller plants.

Colin

[Jeanied]

Abso - blooming - lutely it is worth it!

(Yes was too short an answer!)

[LittleShamrock]

Thanks all! I went to Poundland yesterday and got a bag of seed potatoes (Rocket, I think they were?) and a potato bag, so not bad for £2. I put all 8 seeds on a tray to chit last night, but perhaps I'd be better off saving 4 somewhere cool until summer, I couldn't plant all eight now. I'm gonna get another bag/tub and plant two in each container... then have four for another time...wdyt?

And just when I'd decided I'll "maybe try a pot o' spuds", I'm wondering now if I should get another variety or two but I must remind myself I just don't have the space in my tiny, sloping, paved, west-facing-with-the-only-sunny-wall-shadowed-by-neighbours-fence garden

[Potstubsdustbins]

Dont forget if their in any kind of container they can be moved as the year progress's to take best advantage of the sun.

I go so far as to turn my bins a quarter turn once a week to present a different aspect to the sun.

Good luck Colin

[taff]

must be me then, I never have a good yield from growing in pots/sacks, so it's the ground for the salad potatoes this year.