Free* 'Grow your own' Seed Potatoes Kit - Worth over £15!

sirbrainy

Rule of thumb you can get nearly half a kilo back on earlies, nearly a kilo on main crop

sirbrainy

B&C we usually plant up our left over Xmas spuds at Easter at our place in Europe, ie shop bought potatoes, left for 3 months in a drawer (it's very cold in the house Jan & Feb and not much warmer in March) which at Easter are nicely chitted.

Then we get a harvest of new potatoes in the summer. Perfectly feasible to plant supermarket potatoes and often cheaper than buying seed spuds

TheSaint_2

BallandChain - there is no real answer to that. It depends on how well you water them, sunlight etc...
I am not a potato growing expert, and so far I have only planted in the ground rather than in grow bags - so you will just have to have a go
Having said that if you have a good crop there is no reason why your grow bag wouldnt be bursting with the things

jellyhead

I saw the plastic bags for growing spuds in poundland today

jumblejack

Ikea bags are even better and only 50p!!! 8)

sb44

tattybonce wrote: »

Ordered mine over a month ago and still waiting ........ they took the money quick enough though!

I ordered one too, the email said they would despatch them by the end of March.

autumngirl

jellyhead wrote: »

I saw the plastic bags for growing spuds in poundland today

Sorry it's a bit off topic but is this kind of potato planter bag (and the Ikea bags) suitable for growing other veg too? If so, just root veg or other veg & herbs too? I'm a novice veg gardener so I'd really appreciate some help on this please, as space limitations mean I have to grow all my veg in containers and have often wondered about this... Thanks!

Bryndis

autumngirl wrote: »

Sorry it's a bit off topic but is this kind of potato planter bag (and the Ikea bags) suitable for growing other veg too? If so, just root veg or other veg & herbs too? I'm a novice veg gardener so I'd really appreciate some help on this please, as space limitations mean I have to grow all my veg in containers and have often wondered about this... Thanks!

I've tried various things down the years in containers on my balcony, tomato plants with great success although too be honest I'm not that keen on tomatoes and they take up a lot of space unless you grow a miniature variety.

I have a large trough of wild garlic which comes back better each year, and I grow salad bowel (or any other lettuce you can take leaves off as you need them) on top of the same trough during the summer.

I have several mints (peppermint, spearmint etc.) which I add to black tea.

Also a bay tree - always nice to be able to take a leaf off your own when a recipe calls for one and we money savers make lots of stews

I have grown potatoes out there using the sprouted supermarket method, I will probably do that again this year.

What else, ah yes radishes but only with limited success, will only try again because I still have some seed leftover from last year. Ditto spring onions.

Confuzzled

TheSaint wrote: »

Even cheaper! Take a few potatoes out of your bag that you bought with your weekly shop.

Plant them.

Wait a few weeks.

Pick lots.

Doesn't cost anything for postage
Thats what I did for the past few years - Even crossed two breeds.

i've also done this with good success, i also managed to grow a sweet potato that had sprouted (i had a very very warm kitchen then) whilst it wasn't warm enough to grow actual sweet potatoes from it i did get a lovely plant with delicious leaves and NO sweet potatoes are NOT actually from the potato family and are not poisonous, i did thorough research first

Confuzzled

jumblejack wrote: »

Ikea bags are even better and only 50p!!! 8)

lidl had some really BIG bags, you know the heavy duty ones they now have at tesco etc they were just 99p each and would def hold a lot of soil, these are much bigger than the large tesco bags but even those would do i suppose, worth a shot!