Slightly larger than a 2L, we generally use these for our garden centre plants and some amenity lines. Keep the soil in the containers or bags damp and don’t let it dry out. Make sure you don’t overwater them, especially if it’s raining a lot. Adding organic matter, such as mulch, will improve the water retention of your soil, as well as also adding nutrients for your plants. Dimensions: 40.8cm diameter top, 29.8cm diameter base and 33cm depth. Internal top diameter 36cm. Capacity: 30 litres. Whether you use pots or bags to grow your potatoes, make sure they have good drainage as the bacterial love warm and wet conditions.

Dimensions: 50cm diameter top, 35.5cm diameter base and 35.5cm depth. Internal top diameter 45cm. Capacity: 43 litres. Another disease that can affect potatoes are potato scabs. There are two varieties, common scab which is caused by bacteria and powdery scab, which is a fungal disease. Scabs are only visible on the tubers. Yes you can, and because you already know how to grow potatoes in containers, you will find it easy. Dimensions: 55.5cm diameter top, 39cm diameter base and 48.2cm depth. Internal top diameter 50.5cm. Capacity: 75 litres. Our 2L pots are ideal for the production of amenity plants grown for one year, most commonly used for our 2L herbaceous and shrub lines, this size is great as the plants are small enough to establish but large enough to make an impact when first planted.Similarly for gardeners and home owners they’re great to keep in the shed or basement and use for gathering fallen leaves in autumn, or transporting compost and planting materials in the growing season. They’re strong and rigid design will ensure they last for many years to come. Dimensions: 59.5cm diameter top, 42.8cm diameter base and 48cm depth. Internal top diameter 55cm. Capacity: 90 litres. There is no cure for this disease, once a plant is affected, destroy it and all the potatoes that might be in the soil. Dimensions: 50cm diameter top, 35.2cm diameter base and 40.5cm depth. Internal top diameter 45cm. Capacity: 50 litres.

While potatoes that are infected by scabs don’t look very nice, they are still edible, just peel them and enjoy. Keep your potato plants well watered, but don’t overwater them. Indoors they won’t need to be watered as much as outdoors in summer. Make sure that your pots have good drainage, potatoes won’t grow in wet soil. These varieties have been proven to give good crops in containers. Other varieties you might try are: Charlotte and British Queen. Frequently asked QuestionsWhen digging the hole you shouldallow for around 30% increase in the pot size for depth and width so for example a 20 litre pot is 34cm diameter x 27cm depth - the planting hole should be around 44cm diameter x 35cm depth. The same calculation can be used if repotting into a larger pot on arrival. Dimensions: 69cm diameter top, 52cm diameter base and 51cm depth. Internal top diameter 65cm. Capacity: 130 litres. Recommended use: Heavy duty plant pots used for tree production and growing. If you save your own seed potatoes, don’t save them from infected plants. Store your seed potatoes in dry conditions to minimise the risk of infection during storage. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Find out more about how to grow potatoes in containers in our FAQ section. They chitted ok, so we planted them. We didn’t have any issues with diseases and got a reasonable crop. One issue was that we couldn’t choose what variety to plant. But then, we had the potatoes anyway, so didn’t spend any extra money.

The most common and most devastating disease that affects potatoes is late blight. It is also called potato blight or tomato blight, as those two plants are the main hots for the disease. So, if you want to grow potatoes in containers successfully, you need to know about blight. This particular range of large plant pots have handles fitted to the top rim of the pot. Making them easy to move and transport when needed. Begin by placing a layer of potting soil in the bottom of your container, filling the pot half full is usually a good guide. On top of this begin planting your potatoes, in a large 40 litre pot you can plant 5 first early seed potatoes. Plant them evenly apart but try not to plant too close to the edge of the container.

Make sure you use seed potatoes that aren’t infected by scabs. There is minimal risk of infection with commercially bought seed potatoes. If you save your own, make sure you don’t save any that are infected. The sizing is estimated but this will give a guideline and we have used a garden spade to show the scale reference A 5L is Ideal for the production of bigger shrubs with a larger root capacity, these can be seen across our nursery but generally found within our garden centre sales.