A cheap alternative to potato growing bags?

**Suechooks** · 05-01-2009, 06:30 PM

Even cheaper are used tyres - they're free! I've used them and had excellent results - better than anything else I tried! Good enough for Bob Flowerdew!!

**Diva1983** · 05-01-2009, 06:59 PM

I was recently thinking about this too and thought about the concept of using heavy duty bin bags:

How to Grow Easy Trash Bag Potatoes! | eHow.com

Seems quite straight forward and I'm considering this as the way forward for the spuds I'm growing this year.

Diva

**hooraynana** · 05-01-2009, 06:59 PM

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

**crazy_red** · 05-01-2009, 07:32 PM

My thinking was that as I would have to put in drainage holes, if I didn't grow taties in them again, I could use them for composting or leaf mulch making etc.

Also the handles would make it much easier for me to move them around - i'm only a bit dropped off, lol

**Victoria26** · 05-01-2009, 09:03 PM

I used those pop up garden bins last year - worked ok on my first earlies but the seconds and the maincrops suffered really bad with blight! You will have to put drainage holes in them tho.

Good luck x

**Mcbee** · 05-01-2009, 10:23 PM

Originally posted by hooraynana View Post

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

Snap - worked a treat 4 me 2!

**kate&rob** · 05-01-2009, 10:31 PM

i'm going to plant my first earlies in the flower buckets that morrisons sell, 99p for 6 i think they were last time i bought some. bought a load then cut them down to a reasonable size for growing my chilli plants in. cheap alternative for large plant pots.

**crazy_red** · 05-01-2009, 11:10 PM

Lots of people have mentioned flower buckets. Maybe I will try a few buckets as well and compare my results, then.

Red

**Finedon.Dandy** · 06-01-2009, 10:51 AM

Just rung up one of our local tyre places to find out what they do with all their old tyres and they said they shred them. So I asked if I could have some and I can have as many as I want! Brilliant for us as the space in the scheme of my crop rotation has meant very little space for spuds this year!

**bluemoon** · 06-01-2009, 02:15 PM

Heavy duty bin-bags can still be quite flimsy and let in light, the compost bag idea works, but we don't have enough. Bags which have contained dog-food are similar though and work just as well. I only grow a few first earlies this way though.

**Jenegade** · 06-01-2009, 02:24 PM

My compost bags are white on the inside. Do you think I could use them for potatoes if I put a black bin bag inside?

**sarraceniac** · 06-01-2009, 03:24 PM

Here are a couple of my cheap alternatives.

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**SlugLobber** · 06-01-2009, 05:07 PM

Originally posted by hooraynana View Post

Before I had the allotment - I used to use old compost sacks - rolled down to start and as you keep topping them up with compost you just unroll the edges
works a treat !

I did this last year and it worked great!

**Two_Sheds** · 06-01-2009, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by Jenegade View Post

My compost bags are white on the inside.

I don't think the spuds will mind

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