I've just bought an entry to the village potato competition. I now
have the regulation chitted seed potato, and the regulation
ex-ewe-lick tub (20Kg size, 5.5in radius, 10in tall).

The general advice for growing spuds in containers is to plant them in
about half of the depth then earth up as they grow - for me that's an
initial depth of about 5 inches. One bit of advice I've had says use
tomato fertilizer, but this I would have thought would promote flowers,
not tubers. So, any advice please (on any aspect of this)?

R.

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:59:34 +0100, TheOldFellow wrote:

One bit of advice I've had says use
tomato fertilizer, but this I would have thought would promote flowers,
not tubers. So, any advice please (on any aspect of this)?

R.

The tubers are, biologically speaking, modified shoots (not roots as one
might suppose). IANAE but I would think general fertiliser to promote
growth of plants such as Miracle Grow would be appropriate?

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I've just bought an entry to the village potato competition. I now
have the regulation chitted seed potato, and the regulation
ex-ewe-lick tub (20Kg size, 5.5in radius, 10in tall).

The general advice for growing spuds in containers is to plant them in
about half of the depth then earth up as they grow - for me that's an
initial depth of about 5 inches. One bit of advice I've had says use
tomato fertilizer, but this I would have thought would promote flowers,
not tubers. So, any advice please (on any aspect of this)?

Read the recipe carefully and follow the instructions implicitly, or
you'll end-up with a starch-haze.

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Rusty
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:03:55 GMT
Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from TheOldFellow contains these words:

I've just bought an entry to the village potato competition. I now
have the regulation chitted seed potato, and the regulation
ex-ewe-lick tub (20Kg size, 5.5in radius, 10in tall).

The general advice for growing spuds in containers is to plant them in
about half of the depth then earth up as they grow - for me that's an
initial depth of about 5 inches. One bit of advice I've had says use
tomato fertilizer, but this I would have thought would promote flowers,
not tubers. So, any advice please (on any aspect of this)?

Read the recipe carefully and follow the instructions implicitly, or
you'll end-up with a starch-haze.


Only up until distillation.

R.

Hi
John Innes no3 with a good multi purpose compost.
My mix is 3 john innes 1 multi purpose, dont feed 4 weeks let the roots look for food , seaweed extract once a week Sunday, tues & Thurs Tomato food. Dont let them dry out turn the pot a quater each of the feed days.
Are you growing weight or quality ? and how many are you planting as less can be more as in size.
Let me know what you think and the outcome, what variety are they
Spruce

TheOldFellow wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:03:55 GMT
Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from TheOldFellow contains these words:

I've just bought an entry to the village potato competition. I now
have the regulation chitted seed potato, and the regulation
ex-ewe-lick tub (20Kg size, 5.5in radius, 10in tall).

The general advice for growing spuds in containers is to plant them
in about half of the depth then earth up as they grow - for me
that's an initial depth of about 5 inches. One bit of advice I've
had says use tomato fertilizer, but this I would have thought would
promote flowers, not tubers. So, any advice please (on any aspect
of this)?

Read the recipe carefully and follow the instructions implicitly, or
you'll end-up with a starch-haze.


Only up until distillation.

R.

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