Mistake comes good.

[Potstubsdustbins]

So back in early Feb I order my potato sets (first early Accord) only to find out later that I had written down the wrong code and for the first time in my life ordered pre chitted sets

I wait and wait and wait they eventually arrive last week in March

Planted on the 29th March in Morrisons buckets, this week I get flowers on the haulm of a couple and today could resist no more I empty a bucket and get..............a nice boiling for two people

Seven weeks and three days and things should only get better.

Colin

[mrbadexample]

I didn't know you could get pre-chitted spuds. Do you think the delay was due to them putting them on a window-sill to chit after you ordered?

Were they more expensive?

[Potstubsdustbins]

They were an extra £1 on a 2kg pack, they arrived in a solid cardboard box with packing round them and chits like Arnies arms.

I know I should have left them another week or so but SWMBO and I eat new potatoes tomorrow and of course the crop from each bucket should get better.

Only 15 more buckets to go but the second earlies should be well ready by then.

Colin

[mrbadexample]

Dare I ask how many pots, tubs, dustbins and buckets you have?

[Potstubsdustbins]

For potatoes

Main crop, 4 dustbins, 1 50 gallon & 1 35 gallon plastic water tanks

Second earlies, 3 specialist potato planters (bought years ago before I got the Scrooge syndrome) 2 dustbins.

First earlies 12 Morrisons buckets, 2 ex plastic beer kegs & 2, 3 gallon builders buckets.

I have never added them up before is that a lot?

Colin

[mrbadexample]

I have never added them up before is that a lot?

Colin

I guess that depends what else you're growing? Can we have a picture please?

[Potstubsdustbins]

I will post some pics tomorrow.

As to what else, that is going to exercise my old brain somewhat but I will try.

Starting at the bottom patio.

Blackberry Black Butte, blueberry, mint,3 containers of mixed lettuce and 2 of spring onion and 3 each of runner Red Rum & White Lady

Glass topped lean to at the moment 1 cumber, 4 hanging baskets tumbler (going out after the wind), modules with seedlings of lettuce, spring onion, and baby leeks, 6 pots with 1 each Red Baron in case of failures.

Green house 6 Sun Gold, 1 plum tomato (unkown), 3 cumbers, 3 sweet pepper, 2 melon,
2 courgette and 5 each Red Rum & White lady seedlings for late crop.

Small middle Patio 2 containers mixed lettuce and 1 of rocket.

Round the raised edge of the pond, 2 containers baby leeks, 8 containers containing 76 Red Baron 1 container rosemary, 1 container oregano and 1 of garlic chives.

Top patio 2 containers with 52 peas in each, 2 one metre square beds with 8 calabrese in each, 3 each White Lady and Red Rum and six containers with 16 strawberry plants between them.

There various other bits & pieces dotted about and of course potatoes stuck in anywhere.

I like container growing I think.

Colin

[VirginVegGrower]

Maybe your moniker should be Lotsofpots :-)

[womble]

You can buy pre chitted potatoes??

What is the world coming too, you'll be able to buy ready made mashed potato in little chilled bags soon.......... oh wait LOL

[mrbadexample]

There various other bits & pieces dotted about...

I like container growing I think.

Colin

Fabulous. I think you forgot your radishes. Or do they come under "other bits & pieces"?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Hi MBE actually I forgot my radish, 12 Cauli Igloo and 6 PSB, oh and two pots of carrot. Told you it was an old brain lol.

I have taken a few pics to try to show what I do, I don't have a large garden so things can some times get a little cramped especially later in the year.

Colin.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Well you asked for some pics so here we go.

First up is an over view to give an idea of size, the GH is a 6 x 8. The 3 after that are in the GH. I have no idea how many thumb nails I can get on one post so will spilt the pics over a couple or so posts.

Colin.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Next we have my blackberry, followed by my first 6 runners along with caulis and PSB, then my grotty little lean to. OK so the blackberry is last

Colin

[Potstubsdustbins]

Finally a couple of my potatoes and calabrese, behind the row of Morrison buckets lurks another 6 runners and some of my strawbs are in the back ground of the first pic.

Colin

[mrbadexample]

Cheers Colin. You certainly seem to like your spuds.

I don't think I'll ever complain about not having enough space again, considering what you manage to grow without much mud. You've even got space to walk, a table, patio heater and a massive pond. Fish farm, by any chance?