"Ophelia" wrote in message
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"Kathy" wrote in message
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Kathy" wrote

"Ophelia" wrote


OK here it is! If you want to grow potatoes in a tub - do you fill up
the
tub with soil and then stick the potatoes right down the bottom, or do
you
put in a wee amount, plant the potatoes and await their growth. If
so, how
do you add the extra soil to bring it up to the top? Do you just lob
it onto
the plants which are growing?

Btw the nasties can take a running jump g

I put in about one third soil and planted the spuds in that. As they
grew I added more soil, just like earthing up. Worked quite well, but
the spuds were rather small. If I do it again, I'll only put in two
seed spuds, not the four recommended.



That could just be down to variety Kathy, which variety did you try?

I tried pink fir apple. My cousin tried cara and got small spuds using
four.

When you will plant the next lot? I am most interested in what you plant
too
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I'm not planning on growing any in planters for a while. I have kestrel,
king Edwards and cara in the ground at the moment.

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Kathy