Potatoes: Buying, Chitting, Planting, Earthing Up; Harvesting.

beckifitzg

I planted my potatoes about a month ago now and i have yet to see a peep.
Should i be concerned?

I am worried i put them too deep.

Debs2009

Hi
I was wondering if someone could give me some advice, I have attempted to grow some potato bulbs in a grow bag and I think I have done it wrong.
I filled the grow bag with soil and put the 3 bulbs in (as this is my first attempt) the roots are growing a bit and the top is coming out of the soil. Was I meant to just put some soil in the grow bag and plant, then keep adding soil as they were growing (somone else told me this)?

Thank you for any help

Debbie

Lotus-eater

Debs2009 wrote: »

Hi
I was wondering if someone could give me some advice, I have attempted to grow some potato bulbs in a grow bag and I think I have done it wrong.
I filled the grow bag with soil and put the 3 bulbs in (as this is my first attempt) the roots are growing a bit and the top is coming out of the soil. Was I meant to just put some soil in the grow bag and plant, then keep adding soil as they were growing (somone else told me this)?

Thank you for any help

Debbie

Yes you are supposed to add some soil on top of the tops as they grow. But not the end of the world if you haven't got space. If when the tubers start growing, they stick out of the soil, get something light proof and try to cover them up.
Your compost will probably sink a bit over time anyway. So you should have some space.

morg_monster

Anyone grown Vivaldis? I know they are second early so I was assuming 12 weeks til checking if they are ready to eat, but mine are flowering already (sown 19th March). We have had gorgeous sunny weather here and only 1 frosty night since they were planted, I've been watering them of course as it's been so dry, so will the good weather have sped up the growing process?
Am going to have a peek at my Lady Christls this weekend :-D (that sounds a bit rude doesn't it!!)

Will be great if I can start harvesting some a bit early, my last batch of seed potatoes are due to go in next weekend so will be nice to free up some space. Currently have 25 poly pots around the garden... and there'll be another 10 or so before I'm finished! I just hope I've staggered the planting OK!

Debs2009

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Yes you are supposed to add some soil on top of the tops as they grow. But not the end of the world if you haven't got space. If when the tubers start growing, they stick out of the soil, get something light proof and try to cover them up.
Your compost will probably sink a bit over time anyway. So you should have some space.

Thanks for your reply

Debbie

fishpond

sparrer wrote: »

My side path looks like a forest :eek: the greenery in the tubs has grown, and grown, and grown...it's now about 3 1/2 feet tall and still growing/spreading in all directions! Goodness knows what I'm going to do with it when I eventually harvest the potatoes as my garden's far too small for a compost bin - does anyone know if it can be fed to chickens, in small quantities of course?

Poisionous to chickens, so my books tell me.
My heart says "not worth the risk".

dogstarheaven

got my Earlies up about a month ago, and my Mains about a 8 days ago. Out of 30, I'd say about 23 are up. Unfortunately, being disorganised at the time, I mixed up all the labels on the seeds and would not know which of the 10 varieties I'm growing!!

dogstarheaven

beckifitzg wrote: »

I planted my potatoes about a month ago now and i have yet to see a peep.
Should i be concerned?

I am worried i put them too deep.

I'm new to tattie growing this yr, and I thought I'd planted mine too deep - 6" or so, but out of the 30 tubers I put, 23 have come up (there's still hope for the others). How deep did you plant yours? The books say to water in v. well once planted and then leave alone till the come up, or is it something like, water every 7 - 10 days?? (can someone correct me on this, pls?)

[Deleted User]

I drench mine every couple of weeks if we haven`t had any decent rain (we haven`t) I use 2 gall for a yard run

Biggles

I water daily while we're having this dry weather. Potatoes are very thisty.