planting potato seeds

informashun | 14:31 Sun 15th Jan 2012 | Gardening

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when is the earliest time to plant seed potatoes in containers and grow in a greenhouse to begin with.
i have some early tuber varieties and due to holidays would like them ready asap.
many thanks for any advice.

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Hawkwalk

As long as you keep the frost off them you can start now but that will mean heating the greeenhouse which is a costly way to grow a few spuds. A first early crop only takes 10 weeks but this does rely on warmer weather than you will get in Jan/Feb. I would not plant any until end of March but these would still be ready by June.

Maydup

I never plant before the end of March no matter how tempted i get by the mild weather, it'll be too cold at night.

As Hawk said, you won't be wanting to heat a greenhouse for three months. I really would wait if I were you.

informashun

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thanks for the info.
so march it is.

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