[HilaryG]

  I've just spent an enjoyable halfhour planting some Carlingford? potatos in 2 sacks and a very large container. I've covered them with about 4 inches of compost and watered them in. At the moment they're on the patio, do I need to do anything else to them and what sort of looking after do they need?  Just had some delicious skinned broadbeans and feta cheese tossed in oil and mint for lunch, and now I'm off to turn the compost heap which is becoming a compost mountain! 

[Riala]

oooh... where did you get your seed potatoes from??

I can not find any anywhere!

[PAH48]

Try Tuckers, they have 3 or 4 varieties in...but pricey....

[Debbie D]

I have just got some Carlingford that arrived today, I had planned to plant them on the allotment but all the advice seems to be to plant them in containers/sacks etc.  Has anyone grown these successfully in the ground or am I wasting my time.  We have just taken our plot on and there is all this soil just waiting to have something put in, so thought I would chance it. 

[Riala]

Where did you get yours Debbie?

[Plottered]

fothergills.co.uk have carlingfords @ £4.95 for 10 tubers

[Iain@JBA]

If you are growing in containers I would plant one potato per 15litres of compost, so for most containers you can use 2/3 potatoes.
They will grow in your garden and if you can put some protection over them if frost is forecast then that would help them.
Plant them a good 8" deep so that the tubers are nice and safe in the soil if the winter is hard.
We once had a field that we couldn't harvest and we went back in March of the next year and salvaged some very nice spuds.

[Debbie D]

Where did you get yours Debbie?

I got them from Dobies but they weren't cheap though.

[beansticks]

Good Thread,i hope more advice and opinions are posted.I have also bought 20 tubers of Carlingford and intended to plant them in the plot,so i will be grateful for all advice posted,particularly experiences of previous efforts in the ground.

[Howard]

Good Thread,i hope more advice and opinions are posted.I have also bought 20 tubers of Carlingford and intended to plant them in the plot,so i will be grateful for all advice posted,particularly experiences of previous efforts in the ground.

Perhaps a friendly Mod could merge all the recent Christmas potato threads, if they've the time, I'm sure it would help us all. 

[DD.]

Nice thought, but the problem with doing that is that it puts the posts into time order and the thread can look very disjointed, especially when there are several.

There's nothing to stop any member posting a link to another current thread if they think it relevant and helpful.

[aelf]

I saved some of my Charlottes about 4 weeks ago and put them in the fridge wrapped in paper tissue. I'll plant them in August in a large sack of rotted horse muck so that I can move it to the greenhouse when the weather turns. Got the idea from an earlier thread on this forum. Hopefully I'll have new potatoes for Christmas dinner!! (First go at this - fingers crossed!)