Potatoes in bags.

I've grown them before in great big areas of bags (closely packed together to make it easier to cover them when frosts were forecast), but they were on my plot where there's no water, so it was a real pain keeping them moist in dry weather, and even if it rained the leaves seemed to shed the water beyond the perimeter of the bag.

So a lot of effort + cost of compost, despite using whatever was to hand to top up with (it's supposed to be just the bottom layer where good stuff is essential) for a relatively small reward. But as I've got cold, clay soil I'm going to have to come up with some method of warming the soil and covering the plants if I'm going to get extra early spuds from open ground planting.

 

Rusty , IMHO spuds in bags is just for fun. I found the yield very low , and ...........I am going to get shouted down for this.......... they taste just like Tescos :yess:

 

I had a few potato bags last year; plastic and 'sack' material ones, I used them mainly to put my left over Rocket seed potatoes in, but I also bought one of those small packets of 5 seed potatoes of Rooster and grew them in one. The Rocket did quite well to fair, and the Rooster whilst productive I think may have done better in the ground...good fun though and worth a go, I'll be using them again this year :thumb:

 

The taste of spuds with £4 billion wiped off their share price.

 

I grew three types of potato in three bags last season. They were nowhere near the results I get in the ground and the bags rotted. These were the growbags which are supplied with potatoes as a gift idea, or for small gardens. Save your money!

 

I have never in my life heard of this.
The pictures look nice, but I m just wondering... won't the limited space stop the potatoes from actually growing?
I guess the sell them in bags but aren't you supposed to move them into the ground once you got home?

 

I've tried growing in "spud bags" but quite honestly the results were TREE "parc" backwards!

I had amazing results growing an unknown variety of leftover spuds we were given from a friend in North Wales. I planted 10 leftover spuds, 8" deep in a trench and got about 20kg of perfectly formed, disease free, very tasty and suitable for all uses. Yes, I've saved some more for this year!

Spuds do best buried in the soil in my humble opinion.

 

Hiya Ziggy.

Yes, I remember it now :thumb: