Want to plant potatoes now. Help please!!!

soba

The name is made up from the from the first letter in our names i.e. OH DS DD and me. I often wonder if people might think I'm a reformed alcoholic - 'sober'!!

beccatt

Some of the old potatoes I threw in the compost bin have sprouted and I've now got foot-high potato plants in there! Am I safe to transplant them into another container and eat them? They were mostly supermarket potatoes.
Thanks!!

Floss

Can't see why not! They should be lovely...make sure they've got plenty of depth to grow down into. They probably started sprouting before being binned into lovely compost!

I can remember my grandad growing spuds in an old galvanised bin in his back yard as they had no garden.....they were lovely (but time may have clouded my memories as I was only about 6!)

Coveredinbees!!!!

Potatos do that. So do mushrooms and tomatos. They haven't killed me........yet.

flufff

Have a handful of potatoes that have sprouted.If I was to plant in containers firstly would they crop this year or is to late in the season?Also how would i know they were ready and how long does it take approx.Many thanks

squeaky

According to the site in the link below you should be OK because they're saying 13 to 17 weeks:-

Growing potatoes

ChocClare

They are ready when they have flowered and then all the foliage has died back.

taplady

squeaky wrote:

According to the site in the link below you should be OK because they're saying 13 to 17 weeks:-

Growing potatoes

Thanks for the info Squeaky:T , we are growing our first spuds this year and weren't sure if we were doing it right but from what it says here we are!:j

Sharra

I had to share my best money saving so far - when we moved we emptied our old compost bin onto our new garden and found some sprouting potatoes. My OH decided to see what would happen and planted them, just in the dirt, we didn't do anythng else with them except water them. We had some cool looking plants from them - I was happy with just that. But yesterday he dug up a carrier bag full of spuds!
I've got the bug now and def want to have a go at growing them properly now

Bogof_Babe

Wow! Well done, what a bonus :j . I often find spuds starting to sprout, or sometimes ones that taste a bit old and go mushy when boiling, so in future I will sling them in the back garden flowerbeds and see what happens!