I have made good use of the dry weather and all the growing areas in the polytunnel have been mulched with a two inch layer of fym.
On Friday I put six inches of fym in the six potato growing bags I bought from a carboot sale in Kerry for five Euros a couple of years ago:
Already to be planted up. I am just waiting for my German garden centre and beer providers and supermarket to get some seed potatoes 🥔 in then we can get them chitting.
Growing potatoes in bags is a great way of getting new potatoes even if you don't have a garden or veg plot. You could even grow them in a greenhouse.
I once grew potatoes 🥔 in a big plant pot in the upstairs window of our council flat. I have even grown potatoes outside in a old spinning drum from a washing machine.
If you have never grown potatoes before. Potato growing bags are a good way to start.
Thanks for the reminder Dave. I need to give the Head Gardener a nudge.
ReplyDeleteThey are great for first earlies new potatoes JayCee and you don't need land to grow them.
ReplyDeleteThis blogpost was sponsored by "Del Boy" potato growing bags. They're "Lovely-Jubbly". By royal appointment - as grown by Princess DIana - "The Queen of Hearts".
ReplyDelete"Fill em up with 'night soil' and the potatoes will be perfick". Pa Larkin starring in The Darling Buds Of May.
DeleteI wish you were our head gardener!! I only tried potatoes a couple of times. Not great results. Well done recycling the drum of the washing machine. Just the sort of thing we do here
ReplyDeleteYou can grow them in soil filled old car tyres Linda. I have read though tyres contain cadmium which is poisonous so I wouldn't recommend. They will also grow well in large plant pots. You don't need to have a veg plot or large garden to grow potatoes.
ReplyDeleteGood reminder I shall have to try that now that I have decided to give up the allotment in a few weeks when we have used the last of the winter veg.
ReplyDeleteSorry to read you are giving up the allotment Tigger's Mum. From reading your blog I know you are resourceful enough to utilise all your growing space at home. I was really pleased with our new potatoes crop grown in the bags last year. They can be started indoors like a green and moved outside after the frosts if you need the space. I would imagine that you can grow carrots and Jerusalem Artichokes in them.
ReplyDelete...greenhouse and moved outside after any frosts.
ReplyDeleteI am chitting an egg box (12 hole) of La Ratte...a bag of reduced salad tatties that started sprouting...so I thought Why not?!
ReplyDeleteI just Googled LA Ratte potatoes 🥔 GZ. I have never heard of them. Seethe originate in Denmark 🇩🇰 so they are probably blight free? I once new an allotmenteer who grew their potatoes from supermarket bought potato peeling eyes and they were a bumper crop.
ReplyDeleteI was almost determined to try again with potatoes, but with the birds, creepy crawlies and local roaming cats I've changed my mind. If I ever again have a fenced yard, I'll be trying a polytunnel/shadehouse veggie garden. With potato bags.
ReplyDeletePotatoes seem to be troubled by creepy crawlies like slugs and snails River. Bird netting or even a scarecrow might be useful to keep birds out of your veg plot.
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