Potato fertiliser

We always use it but we get it from an allotment shop in a big 25 kg sack for about £ 11

Gellideg has access to farmers fertiliser which is much more concentrated than the stuff in garden centres. Potato fertiliser is usually about N-P-K  7-7-12. Chicken pellets are usually something like 4-2-1 which has the wrong ratio of nutrients for potatoes and will grow lots of tops.

The approach I use is to give the whole plot a basic dressing of growmore and then add other nutrients as required. e.g. add sulphate of ammonia, or chicken pellets for leaf crops like brassicas, add sulphate of potash for root crops like potatoes.

I start them off with chicken pellets to get the haulms growing then switch to comfrey tea.

rotted compost dug in during the winter and pelleted chicken manure sprinkles at planting time.... seems to do the trick for me but different soil types may make a difference.

Last year I experimented with proper farmers' potato fertiliser and Poundlands own brand.  Result?  Big pots with both, I do though have quite a rich soil so probably the fertilisers were not that important?

I had a look at some of that poundland potato fertilizer today and from the NPK ratios I'd say it was a long way from being potato specific. More to the point it has over 9 percent calcium oxide which would be like adding lime to your spud beds....a sure way to encourage scab. Brassicas would be the best use for it in my opinion. Or you could save a quid and  get some real potato fertilizer such as Vitax.