growing potatoes in an empty compost bag? (Merged Thread)

MonkeySaving?

Paint them brown, no one will ever know

Alison_Cross

Hi all - my second posting on these forums and it is about the same thing as my first posting LOL! Farmers have lots of blue feed cannisters to dispose of at this time of year and will gladly give them away. They are sturdy polypropylene and would be ideal for growing potatoes. Half them and get two tubs from one cannister. Stand it somewhere flat - otherwise the cannister distorts a bit when the compost goes in.

Trishh_2

:rotfl:

There's always that option!

Linda32

Trishh wrote:

I'm having a go at spuds, carrots, onions, peppers, tomatoes, all in containers... and I've bought a raspberry bush/plant to try in the garden as well.

They all sound great, best of luck

Trishh_2

Thanks Linda. I'm looking forward to getting started :j

Kazonline

Hi all. I posted this question on another thread, but thought it might be worthy of a thread of its own?
I've bought my seed potatoes individually so there's no istructions etc provided with them and the garden center I bought from weren't particularly helpfull.
I'm keen to learn how to judge when to chit/plant/dig the spuds. Can anyone provide some guidelines on this please. Mine are 'Maris Peer' - second earlies I believe, but I'm sure others would be keen to learn about first earlies and others also (forgotten what they're called now, sorry!)
Thanks,
Kaz
ps. in case anyone's interested I paid 23p for 5 of these smallish seed potatoes that were priced at £1 per kg.

smk77

Kazonline wrote:

Hi all. I posted this question on another thread, but thought it might be worthy of a thread of its own?
I've bought my seed potatoes individually so there's no istructions etc provided with them and the garden center I bought from weren't particularly helpfull.
I'm keen to learn how to judge when to chit/plant/dig the spuds. Can anyone provide some guidelines on this please. Mine are 'Maris Peer' - second earlies I believe, but I'm sure others would be keen to learn about first earlies and others also (forgotten what they're called now, sorry!)
Thanks,
Kaz
ps. in case anyone's interested I paid 23p for 5 of these smallish seed potatoes that were priced at £1 per kg.

Try this link for Maris Peer growing instructions.

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=MPR

rubix_76

MonkeySaving? wrote:

Paint them brown, no one will ever know

You could put them on the mother-in-laws plate for Sunday dinner !!

Ooooh did I say that. :rotfl:

LJM

waaah :eek: :rotfl:

Kazonline

Cheers smk77. Does this mean that all potatoes (1st earlies, 2nd etc) should all be planted at roughly the same time and that it's just the time to dig them up that is different? Probably seems an obvious answer to some, but I was under the impression that first earlies were planted first, then seconds etc.
Kaz x