My question is about potatoes in containers: I planted seed potatoes, they grew, I covered them, they grew again, I covered them again, grew the third time and I covered the plants, but now its been a week or so and I don't see any growth coming up. I never much cared for potatoes....until last year's harvest. If you do find out anymore about this, please do report back. They were: Casablanca, Golden Nugget, Sharpe's Express, Maris Bard, Lady Christl, Jazzy, Vales Emerald and Charlotte. I'm not entirely sure why this has happened. Should I fill the bags to the top, essentially hilling, or just roll down the sides once I’ve covered the tops once? I didn't know what to do next but let them continue a bit and put my hand in to dig out some early ones and they were absolutely delicious. I have recently read about indeterminate vs determinate potatoes and since they are in the nightshade family that clicked for me as a possible explanation. Same process ? ", "Really helpful and detailed information about growing potatoes there. ", "This year I plan to grow my potatoes in grow bags. In my climate (UK) where it's usually cool and damp during the main growing period, potatoes often do well enough in containers, though again, never quite as well as those grown in the ground. Space your seed potatoes, sprouts uppermost, evenly throughout the container. ", "Hi Ben. Sounds like you've got a good system there for your potatoes. But I would generally recommend using seed potatoes, as you'll get better results, so worth the money. Good luck to all on their garden endeavors. I guess my soil is gonna be good, cause I've got a lot of worms also. Potato varieties are classified as early, mid-season and late growers. ", "Hi Alan. How will it effect the yield [if any]? Seems like the first time I did this and didn't hill or use much soil, I had a way better yield in terms of cu ft of soil used, however, there are a lot of variables...", "I'm a spud newbie. Already too late to follow your advice so we'll see how it goes. The only thing I don't know is what kind of soil is best to plant them in. You suggest 10 litres of growing medium per seed potato then go on to say that 4 could be grown in a dustbin. In the 2nd box, most of the plants flowered and died down, but some have started growing again and it's early September. Feed from the moment the first flowers appear and right through fruit set and as the fruits colour up. Marie E - The general rule surrounding harvesting of first early potatoes is to check the compost for potatoes once the first flowers appear, but the only real test is to feel for the potatoes. ", "I appreciate your reply! Regards, Roy Doran", "Roy Doran - isn't it a little early to be harvesting unless you actually want new potatoes? Buy your seed potatoes as soon as you can and break them free of their nursery bag or net. Will they produce potatoes?QG9Q8", "Where can I find an answer to my potato query above please. However, a dustbin is tall and thin, so it gives a good deep growing area, but not much room for all the foliage growth, which is why I stated four per dustbin. You can indeed harvest a few potatoes and allow the rest to grow on. Some recent warm and wet weather in the UK should be helping them along. Might as well not have bothered as I got a good crop in a single layer and nothing at all above it. a V16. ", "Hi Vignesh How do I prevent this from happening again? ", "Thanks for your comments Vignesh, Steve, Alexander and Ronald. I've written a short blog post about my experiences with growing potatoes in bags: You need to leave about an inch or two uncovered at each earthing up, to allow the plants to photosynthesise and push on through. ", "Hi Steve. When i removed the potatoes they were green Why? This happened to a certain type last year, 2011 and again on the volunteers that came up this summer. With rows requiring a leg-stretching 45cm (18in) between them, a few bags of seed potatoes hanging invitingly on the garden centre shelves can soon turn into a space-planning headache. I dug up this little red spud [not even the size of an egg] and it's 1/2 green where the bite is. And good luck! You can also add a couple of handfuls of organic fertiliser, such as chicken manure pellets, for good measure if you wish. Second earlies can be harvested when quite young, following flowering, or left to grow on all summer long to produce larger potatoes for storing. i haven't tried again until this year in the U.K. so I'm hoping my Mozart seed potatoes (10 in all) and 5 Anya seed potatoes show me I'm doing it all right. Do they need to flower for the potatoes to grow? That’s entirely up to you and partly governed by what variety you plant. Indeterminate varieties include "Russet Nugget," "Nicola," "German Butterball" and "Elba" potatoes. I harvested them after the plants died back, but all the potatoes were in the bottom 1/3 of the pot. I was super careful! Otherwise I'm not sure. ", "I was in Cyprus 1995-1999 and put some sprouting shop bought potatoes into the (rich) soil at the back of our house.

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