Potatoes with no greenhouse

[Louiseness]

Hi guys and girls,

Just looking for some advice for growing potatoes with no greenhouse.

I bought some seed potatoes (Maris Peer) that werre labelled as 'autumn potatoes', saying I could plant them July and August - and I have

The first three went into a bag on my decking on the 1st of August and have come up and are growing well as far as I can tell. I just put the second lot into a bag yesterday.

Now I know I have to protect the plants from the frost if the potatoes haven't been harvested by then - but how with no greenhouse?

Would a cloche or some sort of other cover work? I could bring them inside but I can't see them getting much light - plus they'd have to go in my spare room and I'm not sure about giant bags of compost and spuds cluttering up the place

[Nicola_D]

Hi I'm about to do the same, hopefully grow some potatoes for Christmas, I just read on a potato specific website that you can place next to a wall of your house and if you can erect some kind of frame you can cover them with fleece when frost is forecast. You can also wrap the container in bubble wrap (if you're growing them in containers)