On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:58:05 +0000 (UTC),
(jane) wrote:

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:51:54 +0100, martin wrote:

~On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:02:27 -0000, "Sue da Nimm"
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~ Regarding growing in tyres and buckets, what height does the plant
~ eventually grow to? I am wondering how deep the tyres/buckets have to
~ be.
~We use builders buckets from Wickes, at 89p each
~
~Made out of recycled Spanish tyres!
~
~and rotate these to provide
~new potatoes all year.
~A few holes in the bottom of the buckets will prevent hubby from pinching
~them to wash the car...
~If you can get hold of some seaweed add a bit to each bucket - I have no
~idea why, but it transforms the flavour of the spuds.
~Yields are lower than garden-grown (which is where the rest of the bag go)
~but the flavour and texture are devine.
~
~ I presume that you plant one per tyre/bucket? I have seen potatoes
~ sold in 1kg bags in the garden centre. If I plant one per bucket, I'm
~ going to need a lot of buckets! Or is it like buying a pack of 500
~ seeds: you don't use all of them at once?
~
~We often "chit" spuds bought for consumption from the greengrocer and plant
~those rather than seed potatoes.
~One of the best results came from a bag of Tesco Value spuds!
~
~Which type of potato do supermarkets sell as baking potatoes?

Usually Estima or Marfona. I'm growing Estima this year because of
this. (2nd earlies). I have some 'proper' seed potatoes plus one of
the supermarket ones that sneaked behind the microwave when I wasn't
looking and started to chit on its own so I shall see if it makes a
difference.

We are looking for large floury baking potatoes ( even "flowery"
http://www.hedging.co.uk/potatoes.html) potatoes.

We have grown Maris Piper but they never reach the size of supermarket
potatoes


For bucket-grown spuds, it's best to use first earlies. I'm growing
Accent.

I must add at this point this is only my second year of spud growing!

We've been grown potatoes for years. We originally got an allotment
because we were fed up with bintjes and Dutch grown vegetables in
general. In the meantime things have improved.
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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad