🥔Everyone says "grow potatoes in buckets" but nobody tells you how many to actually put in. I tried it — half plot, weedy beds and all. Bucket potatoes — burlap sack of Charlotte with one red — 1 per 30L bucket wins, Tonbridge Here's what I actually did on Plot 20B: Buckets I used — 30L builders buckets from Wickes, drilled 5 holes in bottom for drainage. No fancy potato bags. Compost was half garden compost, half cheap bagged stuff, plus a handful of blood fish and bone. Va

Can you really grow new potatoes for Christmas dinner? Yes — if you plant them THIS WEEK in a bucket. I did it last year on my little allotment here in Tonbridge and we had buttery new potatoes on 23rd December for about 60p worth of seed. It’s one of my favourite cheap gardening ideas because you don’t need an allotment, you don’t need a greenhouse, and the supermarkets charge £3 for 500g of the same thing at Christmas. If you’ve read my how to grow potatoes in a bucket with

Right then, mini gardeners. Want to grow your own potatoes but you’ve only got a bucket, a windowsill and the attention span of a goldfish? Perfect. This is the ‘kids edition’ — simple, messy, and with a very real chance of me accidentally turning your harvest into potato soup. This works brilliantly in the UK (I’m in Tonbridge, Kent), and you don’t need a garden plot. Just a bucket, compost, and about 12 weeks of waiting while you keep peeking like it’s Christmas. What You N

ones use first store in cool place small ones wash and cook whole good for salads Don’t ask what varieties these are, ‘cos I got ’em mixed up. But there’s 4 types and one or 2 Asda potatoes that had started growing in the back of my cupboard. You do not need an allotment to grow proper potatoes. If you have a patio, a yard or a couple of big tubs by the back door, you can still p