Weight of seed potatoes

Saulty · « **on:** November 02, 2008, 13:44 »

Hi all, does anyone know roughly the weight of seed spuds?
If I buy 1.5 kg of seed spuds roughly how many will I have?
I know it probably depends on variety etc but I don't wanna buy what seems like a load of spuds and end up with about 3!
Thanks.
Matt.

DIGGER · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2008, 13:59 »

Cant quite help you out with actual quantities,but looking at my lotte plan for last year I allowed
5mt width x 6mt long took 6kg of seed potatoes
I ordered 3kg firsts,9 kg seconds and 6 kg maincrop
allowed 2o mts using half the width iev 5mts
Not much help i know :roll: Probably confussed you even more

JulesJ · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2008, 14:07 »

According to DT Brown's site, 1.5kg of seed spuds will give you 20-25 tubers of varieties like Anya, Arran Pilot, Kestrel, King Edwards. Charlotte and Lady Christl will give you about 20 tubers.

Saulty · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2008, 14:12 »

Quote from: "DIGGER"

Cant quite help you out with actual quantities,but looking at my lotte plan for last year I allowed
5mt width x 6mt long took 6kg of seed potatoes
I ordered 3kg firsts,9 kg seconds and 6 kg maincrop
allowed 2o mts using half the width iev 5mts
Not much help i know :roll: Probably confussed you even more

It does have me more confused mate but thanks for trying!

Thanks JulesJ, that is the sort of answer I was after.

Iain@JBA · « **Reply #4 on:** November 02, 2008, 16:57 »

I think you would get close to 20 in a 1.5kg pack on average.

meterman · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2008, 00:14 »

I go to a small garden center where you can select each potato so no large ones sneak in hence more per kilo also this allows me to grow more varieties i plant the same number of seed each year and always try to grow some different ones from the year before

purron · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2008, 10:47 »

According to the Organic Gardening catalogue 1.5kg covers 2.5 square metres

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