Potato growing 2021

All it took was just over 3 weeks with them under growlights to produce shoots large enough to use for cuttings.

 

Are you using the cutting to produce seed for next year?

 

First time growing (trying to grow) potatoes, have 5 x 30ltr potato buckets and have chitted charlottes ready, but just realised (doh) that I need fertiliser, or do I? If so, I have BF&B only and wanted to get them planted today. Will this be okay or do I need to order fertiliser and wait another couple of weeks before being able to plant them (and will that be too late for charlottes?).

Also, I have far too many seed potatoes, bought one bag of each Charlottes and maris pipers, but will have to use all 5 buckets for just the chatlottes (some YouTube videos say 3 and some say 4 seed potatoes per bucket) so will have to use the four potato sacks for maris pipers (2 per sack). That will leave me with loads left, do I have to bin the rest?

Yes I really should have watched the videos before this morning!

Thanks
Tink

 

Thanks @JWK for the advice, will compost spares.

 

What safe temp can I plant potatoes out in felt bags if they're in a plastic greenhouse? Will it be a case that they won't necessarily grow at a lower temp but can sit? I'm putting them in felt bags which will sit on bark chips for now. Aim to move them outside of the greenhouse once the temps are comfortable. Can I put chitted ones out now under the first layer of soil?

 

We get frosts around the edge of our village right up until June.

 

Thanks @JWK I ended up fluttering my lashes at OH and he ventured out to the nearest garden centre, luckily potato fertiliser was on a stand by the door so it was a quick in and out for him. He didn’t go until late so didn’t get to do the potatoes yesterday in the end.

Did more youtubing last night and one said equal parts mix of growmore, FBB and potato fertiliser! Specialist grower mind you. Planning on planting the charlottes on Friday (day off work) and popping them in a tomato grow house on the decking that gets sun for about 3 to 4 hours a day atm, would that be ok or should I leave them in the garage once planted for a while longer do you think (Colchester, Essex)?

Thanks Tink

 

Thanks again @JWK have mentioned it to OH, he says he’ll “make some room in the garage”

 

Got my first earlies in at the allotment today. Cara and Albert Bartlett.

 

Cara is a maincrop variety and Albert Bartlett is a wholesaler who sells various different varieties of potato.

 

Oh well the Cara have gone in and when I got the potatoes from the allotment the second lot are named Albert Bartlett's