[Christine]

.. per seed potato for ones to grow for Christmas down at local nursery.  That's 25p each. No wonder the customer after me put half of the ones he was going to buy back.

Sure it's an independent and is known to be expensive but that just has to be over the top doesn't it?

[DD.]

Have you checked out the prices via post? 

£8.95 plus £3.95 p & p for 2 kg, for example....

http://www.suttons.co.uk/Shop/Carlingford+Potato+-+Late+Season+220187.htm

[fekq]

  but I saw them on tinterweb and impulse purchased. didn't realise you could get them so cheap!

[Kristen]

They had them in my local Wyevale at the weekend.  Same price as the JBA ones I bough (I think), and no carriage to pay  

[JohnB47]

Just saw some for sale in my local garden centre - £2.99 for 9 seed potatoes.

I tried growing some last year, left over from a packet of new potatoes bought for eating. Total failure. My own fault - I planted too late and then didn't cover them, so the frosts got them. Also, I should really have used proper seed potatoes. Anyway, when I did some Christmas day furtling there was nothing there - just a few roots. No, I tell a lie, there was one potato the size of a sugared almond.

I'm not sure if it's worth the bother really. Come the autumn I think I might be glad to put my feet up for a while.

[Christine]

That's even more expensive that ours locally then - you get 12 for £3!

[harry]

I've paid £8.95 for 2kg at Dobies it says between 20 and 30 per pack

[DD.]

That's still 30p a seed minimum.

Given the failure rate for Christmas spuds, I'm sticking with roast & mash with the turkey!

[mumofstig]

the few excess pentland javelin seed that i kept in the fridge have just been planted in a tub, so will I see how they go...........nothing ventured nothing gained 

[DD.]

At least you didn't forK out silly money for them!

[mumofstig]

At least you didn't forK out silly money for them!

No way! they were from the pound shop in the first place, In packs of 10, I bought 2 needed 15, so rest in fridge

Who was that, they just called me cheapskate   

[JaK]

  Where online can I buy some cheap seed potatoes for a Christmas crop?

[Christine]

No-one seems to have come up with an answer to cheap JaK - only to downright expensive. 

[harry]

They all seem the same price so if we want them we have to pay

[Kristen]

£3.99 per kg from JBA ... plus £3.99 for carriage (up to 10kg if you want to buy lots ...)

A kg is 12 - 15 seed tubers, 3 per bag (4 per larger container) ... so 4 containers / kg

I'm now thinking that Wyevale was more than that ... I'll double check next time I'm there.