I have been growing spuds for decades, though usually direct in the ground. Those look fine to me, remember potatoes are hungry thirsty plants. Make sure you have topped up the containers to within an inch of the top, this allows more potatoes to develop. When you tip them out to harvest them make sure you go through the soil or compost thoroughly so you get them all. Cook some as soon as you can after harvest, the taste will be the best you have ever experienced. 😋
They look to me as if they were very weak tubers when you planted them, or they were planted very deeply
Hi Skandi
I think that you may be right. The tubers (maris pipers) did look a little small and 'weak' when i unpackaged them. Tempted as i am to start again I think that I'll run with these. If i get a bad harvest then I'll know what to do the next time it happens, otherwise I'll never know! It's all experience, which I'm finding is very important when growing stuff.
When I harvested my second crop last year I planted a few of the smaller potatoes at the back of the compost and these are growing very well. The same thing happened the year before, but by accident, as I must have thrown a few bits of potato onto the compost unknowingly.
At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines. Clay soil.
Well, that was an unpleasant, uncalled for post @MikeOxgreen. Someone was asking for advice, not a telling off. Why did you think it necessary to be so unkind?
I’m no expert, @InTheMoorlands, but would agree that the best thing will be to earth up to the tallest plant, covering it. The others will either catch up or won’t (I suspect they will), and then enjoy your spuds come harvest time 😁. It’s strange how some years, things go swimmingly, then other times, we get a curve ball! (I suppose that’s part and parcel of gardening 😂). Whatever, do not give up on gardening!!
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Hi Skandi
I think that you may be right. The tubers (maris pipers) did look a little small and 'weak' when i unpackaged them. Tempted as i am to start again I think that I'll run with these. If i get a bad harvest then I'll know what to do the next time it happens, otherwise I'll never know! It's all experience, which I'm finding is very important when growing stuff.
When I harvested my second crop last year I planted a few of the smaller potatoes at the back of the compost and these are growing very well. The same thing happened the year before, but by accident, as I must have thrown a few bits of potato onto the compost unknowingly.