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.
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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.
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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
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Plant some closer together in the row than the book says.
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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.
Seems to work alright.
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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.
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I wish I could afford to pay Thompson & Morgan prices
I got mine from JBA Seed Potatoes - seemed a reasonable price compared to garden centers and they have a fantastic range (salad blue yum)
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Monika wrote: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!
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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!
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JohnN wrote: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.
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