Fun And Easy (Potatoes)

Member Name: CheekyCharlie08

Product:	Potatoes
Date:	29/09/09 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Fresh potatoes when you want them; Fun to do; Can be done in pots or the ground

Disadvantages: You need them to be in good sun to get bigger potatos

If you want to try and grow something but you are not a very experienced gardener then you should try growing some spuds because they're proper easy to grow and don't take a lot of time up once you've planted the seed potatoes. I don't like gardening but think it's a wicked feeling watching something you've planted grow strong and I like growing vegetables because eating something you've grown yourself makes it taste better and you can save a bit of money if you put some effort in.

You can grow them in pots or straight in the ground and I do mine in the ground now because my dad's done a proper vegetable patch at the bottom of the garden and you get more spuds that way but I've grown them in pots before and they usually come out ok.

You don't need to go and buy seed potatoes but if you do go to Homebase or somewhere like that because in the supermarkets they're selling them proper expensive like in Morrisons durng the summer they wanted £6.00 for 5 Rooster seed potatoes and that's a rip off because you might as well just buy a bag of Roosters and save yourself the effort of growing any!

I always grow mine out of potatoes that have started sprouting in the bag and they usually grow and I get loads of potatoes off them. The only thing with doing it this way is that if you wait until the potato is going soft then you probably won't get a plant off it so you have to be quick with your timing when the spud starts sprouting.

If you're growing them in the ground you just put them in the ground with about 6 ins of soil over them and keep them watered but make sure when you plant them that the sprout are pointing up to give the plant the best chance. You can put some organic fertilizer on them if you like but you don't have to and plenty of plain water will give them all they need to grow big and strong. THe plants grow dead quick and can get to about 2 feet tall.

When the plants flower you should wait until the flowers start dying off and then dig the spuds up. Out of each plant I normally get about 4 - 6 potatoes of different sizes but for some reason mine always come out quite small but I reckon that might be because there's not that much direct sunlight on our vegetable patch because I remember when I grew some in pots they were right in the sun all day and they got loads bigger.

It's just as easy to grow them in pots. You need to put some broken crocks into the bottom of the pot for draining and put your seed potato in the compost then as the shoots come through cover them with compost and keep doing that until the pots full then just let the plants grow as if they were in the ground. When the flowers have come out and died tip the whole lot out and sort the potatoes out and you get about a 5 lb bag of potatoes from a kitchen bin size pot.

It's dead easy even for someone like me who can't be bothered with gardening much but I've found a few things that can be grown with not much effort and it's a wicked feeling when it works.

Summary: You Should Try Growing Your Own Potatoes Because It's Fun And Satisfying