Too late to start growing potatoes?

[Toonbaz]

Oh, one other wee thing for the forum users in terms of advice...

Can you shove in your location in your profile please? that way other grapes local to you will tend to help you out if they can.

I am presuming maybe Newcastle area, but could be wrong...

Good guess, will update that now, cheers.

[Linzy]

Nah get some shove them in the ground give them a good water and when the leaves but 5"tall draw earth up around them and you will have yourself some yummy spuds

[mogs]

I've had really good results using garden rubbish bags, bit like tarpaulin material - punch a few drainage holes in the bottom with a knife, put about 9inch compost in the bottom and rolled the bag down. As they start to grown roll up the bag and top up with compost.

[Toonbaz]

Okay I went back to b & q today for seed potatoes and compost and to my surprise all seed potatoes were reduced to just 1p! I have picked up a few bag but some of them have very long sprouts ( upto 6 inches maybe), do I plant these as they are or trim them down?

[4390evans]

Ive put a few in a spare hole see what happend? x

[BertieFox]

Earlies and lates merely describe the time it takes for your spuds to mature, so you can still sow earlies now and get a relatively quick crop or plant 'lates' and leave them to the end of the season, blight permitting, to get a larger crop.
Last year, for various reasons, I didn't plant my potatoes until the beginning of June and we still had a reasonable crop from them.