Growing in sacks

Best for Early (and late) crops

Spuds grown in compact, portable sacks fit onto balconies, and they’re great for beating the seasons: plant from January indoors, moving them outside in April for super-early harvests.

Plant three seed potatoes in 15cm of multipurpose compost in an old compost sack. As they grow, roll up the sides of the bag and keep burying the stems with more compost; you’ll have spuds within 10-12 weeks.

Our plants grew well, though needed plenty of water and regular liquid feeds. Even so, the harvest was really disappointing – just a handful of spuds per plant. They did, however, come out clean, disease-free and delicious.

Pro Space-saving

Con Tiny harvest

Yield Very low (about 300g per plant)

Reuse any large heavy-duty plastic sacks with drainage holes for potatoes – old compost bags are ideal