This year I tried growing potatoes in bags, because they take up so much room in my rather small vegetable patch.
The Bags
The bags were on sale in packs of three at a nearby garden center, and it was simply a question of opening them up, filling them with soil and a seed potato, and leaving nature to do the rest. With the very wet summer we've had here in the UK, there was hardly ever any need to water them.
The Crop
I emptied one of the bags as an early crop during the summer, and the potatoes were small and new and quite delicious.
I've just emptied the second bag, and the potatoes tumbled out onto the ground undamaged and without any pests.
There's a full bag (the third one, not yet emptied), an empty bag, and the crop of potatoes from one bag.
Advantages
- It saves space in your vegetable patch.
- The potatoes are undamaged because they're not dug out.
- They seem to be pest free.
- You don't need to keep earthing them up.
- The bags fold flat for storage and can be used again.
I'll definitely be using this method to grow potatoes again next year. It was just so easy.
Thank you.