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    FRUIT AND VEG

    Feb 20, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS: EMMA CRAWFORTH; ROSIE YEOMANS

    STEP BY STEP How to plant early potatoes in pots

    Grow a crop of potatoes in a container or specially designed bag. Site it somewhere warm if you can – they will soon shoot, even outside, but keep covering with more compost to build up the cropping capacity of the plants. These hungry feeders must be watered and fed regularly to get a bumper crop.

    1 MIX equal parts of general purpose and loam-based compost together, then mix in some composted manure or chicken pellets. Scoop this rich mixture into the bottom of the bag until it reaches up to about 10cm in depth.

    SPACE the tubers evenly on top. Each tuber needs about 10 litres of compost, so a large potato bag can take three tubers. Make

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