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I've just harvested my Maris Peer spuds today and have what I think is a great crop despite them not being sown until the beginning of May due to bad weather.
I planted my seed potatoes into used compost bags, 2 x 120ltr with 4 potatoes each and 1 70ltr with 3 potatoes. They were earthed up until there was a space of about 4 inches left at the top of the bag then left to get on with it. In early August, I decided to see what my crop was like, tried furtling in one 120ltr bag and couldn't feel a thing so decided to empty it and got no more than 1 1/2lbs of potatoes, salad potato sized and smaller. I was quite dissappointed with this and decided to leave the other two bags until the foliage died back before harvesting. That time came today and out of the remaining two bags, I got just over 9lbs of potatoes, most are about salad potato sized but a few are much bigger.
The remaining 120ltr bag produced 4lbs 1/8oz (1.818kg)
7 of these were 3ins (just over 7 1/2 cms) or over in length and the biggest was 3 3/4ins (9 1/2cms) long by 2ins (5cms) wide.
The 70ltr bag produced 5lbs 1/8oz (2.294kg)
6 of these were 3ins or over in length and the biggest was 3 1/2 ins (9cms) long by 2 1/4 ins (5 1/2cms) wide.
I'm quite surprised that the smaller bag produced more potatoes it only had 3 seed potatoes planted in it where as the bigger bag had 4. Next year, I'm going to try putting less potatoes in one bag and see what happens
I planted my seed potatoes into used compost bags, 2 x 120ltr with 4 potatoes each and 1 70ltr with 3 potatoes. They were earthed up until there was a space of about 4 inches left at the top of the bag then left to get on with it. In early August, I decided to see what my crop was like, tried furtling in one 120ltr bag and couldn't feel a thing so decided to empty it and got no more than 1 1/2lbs of potatoes, salad potato sized and smaller. I was quite dissappointed with this and decided to leave the other two bags until the foliage died back before harvesting. That time came today and out of the remaining two bags, I got just over 9lbs of potatoes, most are about salad potato sized but a few are much bigger.
The remaining 120ltr bag produced 4lbs 1/8oz (1.818kg)
7 of these were 3ins (just over 7 1/2 cms) or over in length and the biggest was 3 3/4ins (9 1/2cms) long by 2ins (5cms) wide.
The 70ltr bag produced 5lbs 1/8oz (2.294kg)
6 of these were 3ins or over in length and the biggest was 3 1/2 ins (9cms) long by 2 1/4 ins (5 1/2cms) wide.
I'm quite surprised that the smaller bag produced more potatoes it only had 3 seed potatoes planted in it where as the bigger bag had 4. Next year, I'm going to try putting less potatoes in one bag and see what happens
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