My Allotment Potatoes Seem To Suffer From All Sorts Of Problems, Lots Of Discolouring Defects Not To Mention Slugs. Would Growing Them In Plastic Bags With Bought Compost Solve My Problems ? If So, What's The Best Way To Go About This And Where Do You Get

[bruciebabe]

[Quoi]

I always grow the first spuds of the year in a compost soil mix in a large plastic tree tub in the greenhouse.
You can get proper plastic spud bags but they are over priced I think just because they have a little flap at the bottom to get the spuds out.
The potatoes do come out nice and 'clean' but there's not many and I dont get any decent size to them.

[penelope2]

You tend not to get many 'spuds' when grown in bags particularly compared to growing in an allotment. Maybe you could consider why your allotment grown spuds are suffering problems. i.e soil quality, type of compost used, depth planted, banking up, watering, type of seed potato used etc.

[woofgang]

its pretty easy, you just get a huge tub, with good drainage. Dump a few inches of soil in the bottom then put the potatoes in and just cover them. Every time the shoots come through the soil, cover them again until the tub is full of soil. Keep them well watered. You get nice long underground stems that way which give you more potatoes. You will never get as big a harvest as grown in the ground and the spuds won't be huge but you will get a decent crop of clean edible potatoes.

[VHG]

You seem to have put the whole question into the small subject line which is why you have run out of space and have had to add the rest of the text in another question.

Put in a short subject then the whole question in the space below.

[bruciebabe]

Yes, I'm sorry. I stupidly wrote the question in the 'title' box. Mea culpa. Thanks for the answers, though. My potatoes have been perfectly edible over the years, once peeled, but I never get the three I require to exhibit any at our flower show !

[woofgang]

for exhibition, deffo in a tub or barrel. To get bigger potatoes, only put one or two seed potatoes in each barrel.