How big do you need your pots to be able to plant veg in

Poosmate

WOW! Thanks for your responses both.

I love small potatoes, I usually cook with the skins on, I can't abide peeling spuds - I'd rather do ironing! Hmmm... I don't buy clothes that need ironing.... Anyway, yeah, I cook spuds in their skins, no peeling, no waste, they stay intact (no mushing) and they cook quicker. Very MSE!

I think I might need to get lots of multi-purpose compost for my new garden so will have the bags to do them in and I'll remember to number them too (good idea).

Thanks again both.

Poo

morg_monster

Its interesting Sally, I haven't found any difference in yield between the buckets and much bigger growbags. In particular the new potatoes I planted in a growbag were disappointing and only grew in the bottom 8in or so!! I still have one growbag of maincrop to empty though, maybe they will be better.
another thing to think about is the size of your household; there are only 2 of us and so a bucket of new potatoes would last us a week or 2, whereas the larger yields would probably start going soft before we finished them (but we invited people over for a bbq and big potato salad to finish them off!). We planted up a bucket every 2-3 weeks and that worked well for us. Maincrop potatoes are different though because they store much better. I have a nice sack in the cupboard under the stairs full of potatoes - I don't think they will last long though as we discovered the roosters make AMAZING ovencooked chips, I have never had such good ones from homemade.

Sally_A

I tried Rocket in old multi purpose sacks this year, the previous year, I can't remember the name of the spud, but found the ones in large buckets got too big and I ended up trying to cake soil around the roots.

Am feeding 2, 3 or 4 people depending on who's for tea.

The biggest pain is trying to find good soil to earth up the bags/buckets with. Being a lazy mare I had all my last years flower buckets from tomato growing to use, and I still ran out, then I had to get sifted compost and garden soil.

Although nice to get an extra early crop, it is much easier, more productive and less faffy in the long run to plant them in the soil.

Will I try for extra earlies again next year? At them moment I'm saying no, but when the urge comes in spring, I might be tempted to try one sack with 3 seed spuds in.