Feeding potatoes

All my potatoes have reached the top of there pots do I start feeding them and is tomato feed ok?

 

I would.

Have you filled the pot with compost as the plants have grown? (leave an inch or so at the top so you can water them)

 

Thanks for that guys-I'll go and feed my spuds then shall I?

 

"I'll go and feed my spuds then shall I?"

Are they in pots? If so and you have filled the pots with compost to earth them up then I reckon so, or wait until they are earthed up if they haven't got to that stage.

If they are outside then its too early (unless you didn't give them anything when you planted them). I don;t think you want to encourage too much growth until the frosts are nearly over, I'm having a real struggle to collect enough earth round my first earlies to cover them if we have a frost :(

But I'm no spud expert, so John's advice will be better than mine (although I think he's talking about outdoors, whereas I think OP was talking about container-grown ones)

 

That would involve getting some ... I've only just got around to buying some debris netting for my Brasicas which are now so hardened-off they are brass-nosed! (not to mention pot bound ...)

 

Desiree are in the veg patch, the charlottes are in bins-and I am earthing up as they grow-filling rather. The bin is black so I imagine they are warmer considering the very sunny April we have had. ( Where's all the rain?). I have had to fill in the charlottes but not the desiree. They went into my own home grown compost so there will be plenty of nutrients in there I imagine. I am topping up with my spent seedling compost as and when I pot on or pot out.


Hope this is okay.

 

Sounds spot on to me.

 

Except that I don't like Desiree - fall to bits when you boil them :( but I suppose if you are going to bake them I'll let you off! I am growing a couple of pots of Charlotte - not grown before, but supposed to be THE spud-lovers-spud.

 

That's hopeless 'coz its the wrong season for me to get the school to do a nativity play :(

 

Ah, I feel better now. Quick visit to eBay and its only 25p a metre, I had assumed it would be dearer.

I'm bemused how it works though?

 

Bl**dy Christians-how inconsiderate.


Desiree make the best mash in the world with (I hate myself for saying it but......) Yorkshire butter, my husbands idea, the Charlottes are for me for potato salad (greek yogurt and a couple of cloves of crushed wet garlic) -the manner of the Gods.


Mmmmmmmmmmmm, food-it;s great.



Thanks, I am pretty glad both of the types sound like they are doing fine.