Spud Growing Innovation

[Trixie74]

Managed to significantly over order on the tatties - mainly due to indecision about which to get and ordering the lot.

Has anyone got any spacesaving or unusual ways I can plant these.

Have a large area of allotment for most, a little plot at home and a small raised bed at work - and some heavy duty bags to fill with compost.

[peter]

Whilst dressed as Darth Vader?

[adam-alexander]

I think that you have answered your own question really. - If you have a few seed pots left over, why not offer them to fellow plotholders, neighbours or Freecycle- better tha waste I would say.

a-a

[Trixie74]

Maybe I need to stress less about my spuds.

[solway cropper]

I usually end up with more seed potatoes than I can accommodate so I just bung em in any old containers I can find and stick them wherever there's space. As a last resort I give em away. I like potatoes

[peter]

Plant some closer together in the row than the book says.

[oldherbaceous]

I often work out how many i'm going to be putting in a row, then if there are 3 or 4 too many, i just put a couple of the smaller ones in the same hole together.

Seems to work alright.

[Monika]

That's why I like ordering my seed potatoes from Thompson and Morgan, because they sell them by number of potatoes (10, 20, 40), rather than weight. I know that on all our beds, a row will take 20 potatoes, so I order accordingly. There are usually one or two more in the pack in any case, so one gets some spares.

[solway cropper]

I wish I could afford to pay Thompson & Morgan prices

[Johnboy]

Hi Solway Cropper,
Would you care to tell us where you get your genuine seed potatoes from?
JB.

[Trixie74]

I got mine from JBA Seed Potatoes - seemed a reasonable price compared to garden centers and they have a fantastic range (salad blue yum)

http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/

[glallotments]

That's why I like ordering my seed potatoes from Thompson and Morgan, because they sell them by number of potatoes (10, 20, 40), rather than weight. I know that on all our beds, a row will take 20 potatoes, so I order accordingly. There are usually one or two more in the pack in any case, so one gets some spares.

Alan Romans sell in 10, 20 ,60 tubers in a bag. Trouble is postage charges when growing on line as potatoes are heavy!

[Trixie74]

JBA were in 10 tuber, 2.5kg, 5kg or 25kg.

I got 2.5kg and shared with someone (11 types!! a bit overkill) and the postage was only £5.

[JohnN]

I have two local "Horticultural Society" stores which supply just about everything, including seed spuds by the number, for basic prices. Don't they have such co-operatives in other parts of the country? This year I'm trying some "Lady C" - don't know if that means Lady Chatterley, but she was no small potatoes!

[FelixLeiter]

This year I'm trying some "Lady C"

Lady Christl I should think.

@Trixie74: Early potatoes can be spaced much closer than maincrop varieties. If you want extra-early potatoes you'll likely harvest them before they are fully mature, which means that they can be spaced closer still.