Is it worth growing potatoes ?

teedy23

There is also the satisfaction of having grown them yourself, you feel so proud of yourself.....priceless.

jess444_2

Hi,
I have grown mine from seed potatoes for the first time this year. have had good results and feel I have saved money. i have a friend who has had an allotment for 35 yrs - he tells me not to buy any more seed potatoes, but to save some of the ones I have grown this year in a cool place and plant them. i thought that this would cause blight, but he has never had any problems. Anyone else tried this. Jess.

pebbles88

hiya,

this is my 1sy yr growing potatoes also.

i got some seeds potatoes from my local garden centre reduced to 99p for a big bag of em, so far i have had over 12lbs of new potatoes from them so im happy! the taste was gorgeous too. i will be planting some more soon for autumn time.

kprice580

When I put my potatoes in a pot should I have put it outside? I've got it in my garage ATM! lol

I put it in there to stop the kids pinching the soil out of it!!

Thanks Katy x x

Kron

We grew our first lot of potatoes this year. We got given some seed potatoes by a kind lady off freecycle. We have just dug them up (tipped them out really they were in a grow bag!) and although we didn't get a huge amount they were absolutely delicious.

We have just planted a load more to see if we can get some for the end of the year.

I would say it is well worth it just to see how gorgeous they taste!

Karen

tomsolomon

Cor blimey missus.
Five days and I've earthed up near enough to the top of the bags...........:eek:

hotcookie101

yes yes yes! homegrown spuds the tastiest thing in the world. I do spend the money to get them from companies as I like to grow slightly obscure types-British queens (the most gorgeous flouriest new spuds ever) which I have NEVER seen in the shops, red duke of yorks (nice salad not too waxy) and roosters which are the BEST all round everyday maincrop. Will try to save some roosters to use as seed for next year(or just risk the sprouted shop ones), but my tubs of queens have all been eaten so I can't save any!

sunshine6650

What are the best potoatos to grow at home? for both mash & baked? Can i just buy some potatos from a supermarket, let them sprout on the ledge then add to a bag etc, cover with soil, when sprouts show cover more & more until full. Once the flowers have been & died the potatos are ready?

Do i just keep adding sprouting potatos to keep a crop going?

csnann

mirry wrote: »

I am looking at the potatoe seeds on suttons web site .

It says its £8.95 for 2kg of potato seeds , which seems such alot of money to me BUT how many potatos would i get from this ?

any advice please

I grew caras last year, I got an average of 2 1/2lbs fom each seed potato.

amcluesent

I don't think it's worth growing potatoes unless you do something like pink fir apple or do new potatoes at Xmas. Plus you always risk getting blight and having nothing.