Growing My Vegetables in Containers

01.08.2023 - 14:52 / gardenerstips.co.uk / hortoris

You can grow fresh relatively clean vegetables in containers. This is useful for gardeners with restricted space or where you want vegetables close to the kitchen door.

I start a few seed potatoes as soon as they arrive, end January/February. They are just starting to flower so I can pick some fresh tubers anytime from now on. They were in a double container if you count the greenhouse and vertical grow  bag. I cover with fleece in very cold weather and happily move the pots for protection of the really early spuds. If the crop fails I have only lost a bit of effort and I can get on with full quantities in March.

Aim for a waxy texture with your salad potatoes and you will probably get some of the best flavoured spuds you have had in a Salad. Waxy potatoes remain intact after cooking and do not go into the water. Waxy potatoes tend to be Early to crop 75 -95 days. Waxy potatoes lend themselves to growing in large pots, barrels or containers.

Charlotte is resistant to blight and has a good cooked waxy texture.Roseval is an attractive, high yielding pink skinned potato will make attractive salads.Anya has a distinct nutty taste and waxy texture. Very long oval tubers with brown skins and cream flesh but susceptible to greening.Maris Peer looks creamy yellow with regular shaped tubers.Nicola will produce a high number of uniform tubers per plant.Jersey Royals are a well known ‘new potato’ with good flavour but hard to grow well.Belle De Fontenay is a variety I am trying for the first time this year . Maincrop varieties include the knobbly Pink Fir Apple, Ratte an heirloom variety and Aura.