Three Minute Monday. Topping up my potato bags.🥔 🥔 🥔

🥔 Episode three of Three Minute Monday. 🥔 Can a three-minute video be called an 'episode'? 🥔 My potato bags are powering along and I need to add the last layer of potting mix and compost blend and then sit back and wait for the magic to happen.🥔

How I keep frost off my Potatoes.

🥔🥔It's getting cold and there's a good chance of a frost overnight so I need to put my potatoes to bed for the night. 🥔🥔It's nothing elaborate, simply a large pot at each end of the row, suspend a bamboo cane across and cover with a nice fleecy blanket.

The time has come to harvest the potato bag.

The time has come to harvest the potato bag. While the harvest was small I remain hopeful of better harvests in the future. Three things I can do different, one is to plant earlier, two is to move the bags to a sunnier position and three is to increase the amount of water they receive. Three and a half would be to regularly apply liquid fertiliser. The reason I could supply more water is that I wasn't sure about the drainage of the bags. So in order to avoid a soggy mess and possible rotting the potatoes, I kept them a bit on the dry side. From what I could tell though is that the bags seemed to drain quite well. You can also find My Veggie Garden at, 🍎Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/myvegiegarden 🍎Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/my_veggie_g...



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A complete guide to planting potatoes in a potato bag. Part 2!

Part 1! https://youtu.be/P6dNgZCvpQ8

A complete guide to planting potatoes in a potato bag.

After finding two potatoes, while preparing dinner last night, beginning to produce shoots I decided to plant them out into potato growing bags.

I've not used potato bags before so I'm as keen as you to see the results. So far we're off to a good start with both potatoes taking off.

Part 2.

Top dressing the potatoes now that they have grown.

I'm using a blend of 50/50 potting mix mixed with homemade compost. Also finished off the top inch or two with Searle's 5 in 1 for a little added kick along.

Probably roll the sides up and one more application of potting mix and compost and I'll just sit back and wait.