It's Tattiefelarious!

[Ace]

Planted 5 tubs of tatties back in mid may and all are flowering now.

I had a little "furtle" last night and joy of joys pulled out a bunch of lovely Charlottes (see below). Boy they tasted scrummy and are now the pinnacle of everything we've so far harvested this year. We've harvested radishes, spring onions, 3 kinds of courgettes, french beans, peas, rocket and herbs so far but the tatties take top spot easily (though the peas are a close second )



There must be loads of spuds in this first tub because I barely got my hand in to pull out this portion !

The other tattie tubs have more Charlottes, Vivaldi's and Rockets.

It's not too late to grow your own tatties. Just get yourself some seed potatoes (ready chitted) and stick them in whatever container you have, even an old compost bag and keep earthing them up. You can't beat it

[Ace]

Ok, I'm replying to my own post here but only because I know there is at least 1 other person out there who bought the same package of 3 potato sacks complete with seed potatoes.

The 3 varieties were Charlotte, Vivaldi and Rocket.

I've now been able to harvest all 3 types and can definitely say that the Charlottes are leagues ahead of the other 2 in taste. The rockets were quite good as baby new potatoes and the Vivaldis were smooth and soft, but the taste of the Charlottes was superlative in comparison.

Thus next year I will plant 5-6 sacks of Charlottes and forget the other 2

[Tom J]

Originally Posted by Ace

Ok, I'm replying to my own post here but only because I know there is at least 1 other person out there who bought the same package of 3 potato sacks complete with seed potatoes.

The 3 varieties were Charlotte, Vivaldi and Rocket.

I've now been able to harvest all 3 types and can definitely say that the Charlottes are leagues ahead of the other 2 in taste. The rockets were quite good as baby new potatoes and the Vivaldis were smooth and soft, but the taste of the Charlottes was superlative in comparison.

Thus next year I will plant 5-6 sacks of Charlottes and forget the other 2

can i still plant any potatoes? if so what type and where can i find the seed potatoes? B&Q do them?

[Mrs Dobby]

Hi Tom, any spud will do, even ones bought from the supermarket, but for planting now, perhaps a bit late (unless you want to grow some for xmas lunch).

The type of spuds to grow depends on the length of time you have to leave them in the ground, as we are now into August (with the possibilities of frost only 8 weeks away), then planting even a First Early spud (which need about 12 weeks in the ground to produce a crop) probably wont yield you anything at all!

However, a lot of folks do plant first early spuds into a container and keep in a warm greenhouse (to protect from frosts) in order to be able to harvest fresh new potatoes for xmas lunch, so you could try this!

HTH

ACE, great looking spuds you have there!!

[Phoenix]

We planted some seed spuddies this weekend, bought from our local independent garden centre, and we were able to buy the quantity we needed rather than by the bagful, which would have been too much. We planted 4 Charlotte's, and 8 Nicola's, in three recycling tubs, and we are hoping for spuddies for Chrimbo. We had to get Nicola's cos that's my name

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