Growing Potatoes in Royal Mail Sacks!

Not much is tastier than your fresh home grown veggies dug out of your garden.  This is especially true is potatoes!

We had actually forgotten that we had planted some chitted spuds in Royal Mail sacks along the side of the out-house, and today we were wondering what we could have for supper - hey presto, faster than a first class delivery, we had a decent haul of fresh spuds. ​

We have found that the postie or the local sorting office are all too happy to give you their old and worn out sacks. Royal Mail sacks (and other similar sacks and bags) are ideal for filling with soil and planting the chitted potatoes when you have filled your ground.  

​The sacks are breathable, allow water to drain out freely and the sides can be pulled up as you earth up around the potatoes.  ​

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Once the potato plants have died back, the postal sacks are easy to tip out, the spuds collected through and sorted into relevant sizes.  Big ones for mashing and jackets, small for boiling and average size for roasting.