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Free potato growing kit !

FREE ‘Grow your own’ seed potatoes kit - Worth over £15
Potatoes are one of the easiest crops to grow at home and you don’t need to devote lots of space to them – they can even be grown on a balcony!
Every reader can claim this superb kit, which could see you harvesting your first home-grown spuds in just 10 weeks from planting!


http://www.plantoffers.com/ms102

good luck available till stocks last :T
***avid money saver***
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  • babyx1uk3
    babyx1uk3 Posts: 1,989 Forumite
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    £4.50 to pay p&p so not completely free, still good deal though.
  • peacellily
    peacellily Posts: 511 Forumite
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    Indeed a great deal especially if you get them to harvest even bigger savings to be had there !!
    ***avid money saver***
  • ColinFishwick
    ColinFishwick Posts: 1,391 Forumite
    With postage its just as cheap to get them from Poundland

    £1 potato grow bag

    http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/potato-grow-bag/

    £1 8 spuds

    http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/10-rocket-potatoes/

    £2 compared with £4.50
  • sarah1972
    sarah1972 Posts: 19,400 Senior Ambassador
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    With postage its just as cheap to get them from Poundland

    £1 potato grow bag

    http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/potato-grow-bag/

    £1 8 spuds

    http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/10-rocket-potatoes/

    £2 compared with £4.50


    £1 for 8 spuds :eek:
    I just take 8 or so out of my bag of spuds that I buy in my shopping each year and grow them. I pay just over £1 for 2.5kg so my 8 for growing work out at pennies. Never understood why people buy seed potatoes?
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  • freda
    freda Posts: 503 Forumite
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    Never understood why people buy seed potatoes?

    Supermarket potatoes are grown in other countries and, because of that, may have foreign diseases in them that will decimate your potato crops and render your veg patch unuseable for years even decades. It could spread to other people's veg patches in the area too.

    Seed potatoes are grown to be disease free.

    Some shop potatoes are sprayed (apparently) to stop them sprouting.

    So I'd say if you are planting supermarket tatties, plant them in compost in a pot and then chuck the compost at the end of the year. Don't keep any of the crop for the next year's potatoes as I think this increases the risk of disease (not sure why I think that, but I'm pretty sure its right)

    But, if you do use seed potatoes you only have to buy one lot for a good few year's worth of crop - keep a few of the last year's crop to start off the next one. But only do this if your potatoes were healthy - no mottled leaves, aphids etc.
  • ColinFishwick
    ColinFishwick Posts: 1,391 Forumite
    Why do you think experts use seed potatoes, answer BLIGHT, they are usually guaranteed blight free, the best spuds tend to come from Scotland

    I mealy posted above to demonstrate you can get this offer cheaper than paying £4.50
    sarah1972 wrote: »
    £1 for 8 spuds :eek:
    I just take 8 or so out of my bag of spuds that I buy in my shopping each year and grow them. I pay just over £1 for 2.5kg so my 8 for growing work out at pennies. Never understood why people buy seed potatoes?
  • peacellily
    peacellily Posts: 511 Forumite
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    pondland is brill but the nearest one is over an hour away would cost £20 quid to get there lol so for some of us the postage cost is fair play !!!
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  • this was posted ages ago....i received mine yesterday:)
    is officially a GLEEK
  • Badrick
    Badrick Posts: 606 Forumite
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    Quote from website "We’ll also include five packets of Thompson & Morgan’s most popular vegetable seeds with every pack"
    So looks good offer to me.
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  • sarah1972
    sarah1972 Posts: 19,400 Senior Ambassador
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    freda wrote: »
    Supermarket potatoes are grown in other countries and, because of that, may have foreign diseases in them that will decimate your potato crops and render your veg patch unuseable for years even decades. It could spread to other people's veg patches in the area too.

    Seed potatoes are grown to be disease free.

    Some shop potatoes are sprayed (apparently) to stop them sprouting.

    So I'd say if you are planting supermarket tatties, plant them in compost in a pot and then chuck the compost at the end of the year. Don't keep any of the crop for the next year's potatoes as I think this increases the risk of disease (not sure why I think that, but I'm pretty sure its right)

    But, if you do use seed potatoes you only have to buy one lot for a good few year's worth of crop - keep a few of the last year's crop to start off the next one. But only do this if your potatoes were healthy - no mottled leaves, aphids etc.

    Never had a problem with the supermarket ones and I always keep a few of last years crop to start off the next one, been doing it for years so I have never had to buy seed potatoes.
    Why do you think experts use seed potatoes, answer BLIGHT, they are usually guaranteed blight free, the best spuds tend to come from Scotland

    Never had blight, only kilos of great tasting spuds each year.
    I have just started (trying) to grow potatoes. I just planted some that I had which had already started sprouting. Will see what happens but I wouldn't buy potato seeds, I see them as a waste of money.

    I absolutely agree, nothing wrong with not buying seed potatoes.
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