My neighbour won this competition to see who could grow the heaviest yield from a single potato. He got 14lb 8oz.
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I came last with a measly 1 pound!
Excellent result, I can't be bothered looking after them, apart from early in the season, wonder what he fed them with ;D
I've never had anywhere near as many as that, although the one I had in my back garden did quite well this year, but I didn't bother weighing them though, I still have some maincrop in about 6 tubs over the lottie. ;D
Brilliant result - can you ask him how he did it?
He grew them in a metal dustbin with an old tyre on top to give extra height. I think they were planted in his own compost and then just watered.
Last year I won the competition with 14lb 4oz. This year, I grew it in exactly the same way, with the same sort of compost and same watering and only got 1lb!
I noticed that another plotholder grew his in leaf-mould and he had two tubs with 11lb in each.
Impressive! He must have watered them diligently. Nice looking lot of potatoes.
Impressive indeed. Can you remember to post a thread about it next year please.
I have a good source of some nice leaf mould so would like to give it a whirl.
When I grow spuds in florists' buckets, using homemade compost that includes leafmould, the more leafmould I use, the lower the yield. My leafmould is from oak leaves.
It's a funny business. Last year, someone won our gardening club competition for a potato plant in a bag, watering with Tomorite. I tried it this year and got masses of top growth and hardly any tubers. ::)
So from now on, I'll probably stick to homemade compost (two parts soil to one of leafmould and one of garden compost, plus chicken poo pellets), plus a regular feed of seaweed liquid.
The other vital ingredient, of course, is time... ;D
I did a whole lot of pots of various sizes on my roof for the first time this year. Got really good results.. Also used a wheelie bin but unfortunately was a bit dry in the lower regions but still got 5kg from 1 spud... next year hope to double it!!
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