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i would like to grow potatoes for xmas dinner and have been told that this is possible in tubs in a glasshouse could any one point me in the right direction?
Many thanks Albert tatlock.

Xmas Potatoes are also known as second cropping potatoes and are avalible in selected places, you can plant these anytime up until september and always seem to work well for me.
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Thanks

just had a look and it says sept, the bits ive read say plant in august?

1 what potatoe seed to buy
2 the method for greenhouse planting
3 when to plant
4 what size tubs(pots) to plant in
5 how to care for them
6 what music do they like

albert I believe they prefer The Stones, definately no Beatles!

there are a fair few threads knocking about regarding growing spuds in pots and tubs. I started one and consensus seemed to be that folk were gonna try planting some shop bought spuds, or put some recent cropped ones in the fridge til end of August. I've put some Nicola & Anya in the salad drawer of the fridge and am gonna plant 4 of each in the recycling boxes given out by the Council. That means I can pick them up and move 'em around if it looks like frost. Some will be growing in buckets (0ne spud one bucket?) and some have purchased spuds that have been 'kept back' for xmas cropping.

Have a bit of a search aroung there's lots of threads on spuds in pots.

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Hi Albert
If you go to: on the plot, vegging out, container potatoes yield now & xmas ones? you'll find lots of useful info - I've planted charlotte (I think!) from Sainsburys in a few garden pots around two weeks ago, in readiness for Christmas - they are sprouting already! dexterdog

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I just have a very quick question. I picked up the wrong compost at Homebase (I was in a rush) and managed to get the peat free stuff. Can this be used to grow potato's in? or could I mix half and half. or should I not bother using it at all.

I'm trying to use it up somehow, I have 160lt of the stuff.

Whats wrong with your compost? We use peat-free for everything, our 'tatties in a box' were grown in Focus peat-free growbag compost.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Potatoes will grow extreamly well in any compost!
I don't use the stuff with peat in

the stuff I have looks very wood chippy and doesn't look like the normal compost stuff that you get for potting etc.

Try it !!
Potatoes will grow in almost anything anyway

Hi Albert (have you been hiding in Ken & Deidre's front room all this time?)
You can still buy seed potatoes for xmas crops from some catalogues but most have closing dates for ordering this week & with post & packing on top add up to quite a price. If you're growing yours in a greenhouse they should be fine in any kind of large tub or even an old compost bag if you only put a couple of tubers in (depends on the size of bag, 1 in small bag up to 4 or 5 in large). Any old compost will do, I even re-use stuff out of pots of bedding I've emptied etc. as long as there's no disease in it.

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many thanks to all the replys.
Ken and deidre's room no, cellar of the rovers yes.
Prefer the stones to the beatles myself.

ps val donican dooooonican that looks betterer is not bad eiether ieither.