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    From 2 potato bags I got 7 potatoes between peanut and marble size!

  • #2
    Did you keep them well watered?

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    • #3
      I thought I had. 2 more pot of them to go, maybe there will be more in those.

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      • #4
        To really help we would need to know variety, length they were in the ground and what they were fed on.
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        • #5
          Well I kind of mixed them all together but I planted pink fir Apple, highland burgundy and a blue one, the name of which I forget. I mixed potato feed pellets into every layer of compost added and watered with tomato feed for the last month or so

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          • #6
            Pink Fir Apples take a very, very long time. I sowed mine mid-April one year and didn't pick them till October. So those, I think, you picked too early.

            When did you sow them?

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            • #7
              Highland Burgundy is also a maincrop and takes longer to mature............as for the Blue one - who knows!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Newbiegrower1970 View Post
                From 2 potato bags I got 7 potatoes between peanut and marble size!
                Do you have a photograph------I need cheering up!
                Feed the soil, not the plants.
                (helps if you have cluckies)

                Man v Squirrels, pigeons & Ants
                Bob

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                • #9
                  Your two main crop seed would need at the very least 22 weeks in the ground and with this years weather probably longer.

                  It would seem your feeding well enough so that only leaves watering. Potatoes in bags and other tallish containers need serious watering, most importantly all the way through the growing medium. It is all to easy to soak the top layer and not get down to where the plants are growing. Spuds are 80%+ water at harvest so to ensure I water all the way through I quickly dump a 2 gallon bucket full into my bins.
                  Potty by name Potty by nature.

                  By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                  We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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