Potato growing as easy as I was told?

[veggiechicken]

You're a good sport, Sarico! Thanks for taking our gentle teasing in good spirit and for your beautiful smile!!

[SeleneMourie]

Hi there potato people!
I am the 'need help' list as well

I have never grown potatoes and I am a 'container veg grower' so the thought had popped into my head for this year. I've been looking at the old threads after i started in this one and came accross this thread from a couple of years ago by 'solway cropper': http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ent_52250.html this is about growing a single seed potato in a flower bucket which looks like it gets fairly good results if you have limited space.

I have been looking at the green potato planters and can't decide which method to go for!!

SCMP

(samantha & my poor ever suffering compost slugger Charlton )

[Sarico]

hi guys i plant my first potato as colin said and i hope they will grow fine... i went to the shop and the only first early potato i found were sharp express and red duke of york ( to be honest the first time i thought they were called red duck of york) so i put one each in a flower bucket... i put them in a small polytunnel because i thought that can give a bit of protection....i'm so happy...

[veggiechicken]

Thank you Sarico for making me smile! Henceforth, I shall always call those spuds "Red Duck of York". Love it!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Way to go Sarico, if a sharp frost is forecast throw a fleece over them if the haulms (greenery) are showing.

Colin

[Sarico]

Thank you Sarico for making me smile! Henceforth, I shall always call those spuds "Red Duck of York". Love it!!

your welcome....i'm naturally funny sometime i don't realize what i said is wrong and only after when the people look at me in a wierd way or laugh at me i realize that i made a mistake.. the funniest one was when in B&Q i was looking for the peep hole for my front door and i actually ask to one of the staff " where i can find a pee hole?) i was embarrased... i hope i can make you smile more often.... just need to read all my post

[Sarico]

Way to go Sarico, if a sharp frost is forecast throw a fleece over them if the haulms (greenery) are showing.

Colin

thanks colin i was gonna put on top the fleece when i remember of the polytunnel that i bought from BM bargain on sale for 1£ so i use that for now...
i want to ask if potato the can grow in partial shade because is where i have a bit of space left... i hope i can beacuse i can put all the 16 buckets in full sun otherwise i can plant the other veggie...

[Potstubsdustbins]

In my experience spuds like full sun, however I have grown in partial shade but got a reduced harvest.

Two of my dustbins used to sit in partial shade all the time until I caught on, now I move four of my dustbins around once a week,(shade to full sun) and this seem to have cured the problem.

Colin

[Sarico]

In my experience spuds like full sun, however I have grown in partial shade but got a reduced harvest.

Two of my dustbins used to sit in partial shade all the time until I caught on, now I move four of my dustbins around once a week,(shade to full sun) and this seem to have cured the problem.

Colin

why i didn't think before about that?... they are pot so you can move them... silly me

[shaunbrook]

I remember as a child my father had a really old cast iron bath standing in the middle of his herb bed and filled it with potatoes every year! It look freaking awesome, unfortnatly thats in wales and im in cambridge! And i dont think he would take kindly to me steeling his bath haha=]

[Feral007]

Ahhh so furtling is like bandicooting! You don't have bandicoot's over there I take it. Bandicoot's take what they want and leave the rest. Amazing what you can learn from wildlife!

[Farmer_Gyles]

.... this is about growing a single seed potato in a flower bucket which looks like it gets fairly good results if you have limited space.

I have been looking at the green potato planters and can't decide which method to go for!!

it doesn't matter much whether you use the planters, flower buckets, old compost sacks etc .... results are more or less the same
in general, one seed potato per flower bucket, 2 or 3 in an old compost sack with the sides rolled down
i've never used the green potato planters, seems little point in paying good money for something that does the same as an old compost sack .... and you can get 8 flower buckets from morrisons for 99p ....

[kentishgal]

Anyone tried using one of those big plastic trugs to grow potatoes??
I dont have alot of space and was thinking if they are deep enough for tatties they might also be wide enough for a 2 or 3 pot grown P/SBs once they've finished growing??

[Sarico]

hi guys i have a little problem.. my potatoes are in flower bucket outside and i was wondering that how can i feed them? i know i can do that from the bottom but is been raining no stop for few days and i don't think they will absorb something from the bottom the soil is so wet... if i put anyway from the top would this just go through the bucket and come out from the bottom?

[Sanjo]

Anyone tried using one of those big plastic trugs to grow potatoes??
I dont have alot of space and was thinking if they are deep enough for tatties they might also be wide enough for a 2 or 3 pot grown P/SBs once they've finished growing??

I did last year Kentishgirl. I got one for a £1 from B & Q because it had an enormous split across the bottom and I wasn't paying full price for it!! My husband was totally embarrassed when I beat them down and couldn't understand why I would actually buy something already broken.
I explained to him that it saved me making holes in the bottom! It wasn't one of the big ones but I did get a couple of spuds in it and got the usual small crop.
Best of all, it was easy to move around as the handles are quite strong.