{"id":3413,"date":"2015-10-07T08:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2015-09-29T03:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:21:27","slug":"potatoes-in-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/potatoes-in-sacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Potatoes in Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/potatoes-in-sacks\/attachment\/potato-sacks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3414\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3414\" title=\"potato-sacks\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/potato-sacks.jpg\" alt=\"potato-sacks\" width=\"505\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I am growing my early potatoes in various containers but these canvas sacks look to me to be a great idea. You can buy specially made potato sacks from seed merchants and garden centres but any large bag can be adapted with enough drainage holes.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tips and Benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There is virtually no chance of eel worm or soil borne infection if you use clean sacks and fresh or sterilized compost.<\/li>\n<li>The sacks can be placed where there is spare space increasing your cropping area, particularly useful if ground is scarce.<\/li>\n<li>These polypropylene sacks drain to avoid soggy conditions yet have space at the top to &#8216;earth-up&#8217; by adding extra soil.<\/li>\n<li>All the fertilizer will be focused on the plants.<\/li>\n<li>Crops are clean and tasty with one plant producing at least enough for a meal for four.<\/li>\n<li>You can start extra early crops in the greenhouse and move them outside later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tips from Experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I have used sacks for several years now. The plants need plenty of water as they grow without becoming waterlogged.<\/li>\n<li>I put 3 spuds in one 2 foot diameter sack.<\/li>\n<li>Top up with extra soil as the plants surface until the bag is full.<\/li>\n<li>I mixed in some rotted horse manure this year and the crop benefited and the soil residue was great for the garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am growing my early potatoes in various containers but these canvas sacks look to me to be a great idea. You can buy specially made potato sacks from seed merchants and garden centres but any large bag can be adapted with enough drainage holes. Tips and Benefits There is virtually no chance of eel worm or soil borne infection if you use clean sacks and fresh or sterilized compost. The sacks can be placed where there is spare space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/potatoes-in-sacks\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}