How to grow Christmas Potatoes UK

Would you love to tuck into some fresh homegrown potatoes on Christmas Day for your Christmas Dinner? Here we will show you how to grow Christmas Potatoes UK.

Allotment and Kitchen Garden Book

Are you starting an allotment or planning on growing your own fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in a kitchen garden? If so we highly recommend the book Allotment Month By Month. This does exactly what it does on the cover to help you with what you should be doing in the allotment and kitchen garden each month. Below you can see the link for Amazon where you can purchase the book directly. This book is extremely popular with all allotment holders as you will read in the reviews:-

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Items Needed for grow Christmas Potatoes

You can click the items in the list and it will take you through to Amazon where you can purchase the items needed to grow your Christmas Potatoes. You won’t be able to purchase your potatoes from garden centres at this time of year so Amazon is the perfect place to purchase them.

Compost
Potato Bags – Make sure you order ones getting delivered straight away.
Potatoes
Potato Fertilizer – This is optional but will help get more crops

Step by step process of planting Christmas Potatoes

Step one is to get all the items you need in the list above.
Get your potato bags and fill one-third full of compost
Place 3 to 4 potatoes in each bag spaced out.
Fill the bag half full with compost
Sprinkle some potato fertilizer on top.
Fill the bag to the top with compost
Sprinkle the top with more potato fertilizer
Give them a good watering on a regular basis
The compost will go down as it soaks in the water. You can always top it back up and add some more fertilizer.
Leave them outside while its warm but as soon as the cold starts to come they must be in a greenhouse or polytunnel or the frost will damage the plants.

Video Tutorial on Christmas Potato Planting

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Purchase Items Needed For Christmas Potato Planting

Compost

The compost you will require for these Christmas Potatoes is just general multipurpose compost which can be picked up from garden centres or you can use the link below:-

Potato Bags

You will need to grow your potatoes in bags or buckets as it will get too cold for them to be in the ground outside. If you are growing them in buckets make sure they have holes in the bottom for drainage. Below is the ideal Potato bags:-

Potato Fertilizer

This is highly optional but will help boost the crops and fingers crossed help you gain more potatoes. Listed below is the Potato fertilizer I recommend. This box will last a few years if you keep it somewhere dry:-

Christmas Potatoes

There are a few varieties which you can purchase. The links for the Christmas Potatoes are below:-

Pentland Javelin Seed Potatoes – 2KG net (Approx 20-25 tubers) Second Cropping/Christmas Harvest

9 x Seed Potato Mix Including Varieties Like Maris Peer – Charlotte – Pentland Javelin – Maris Piper – Seed Potatoes

18 x Seed Potatoes Mix of High Yeilding Varieties Like Pentland Javelin – Maris Peer – Charlotte – Seed Potato

We hope you have found these tips useful on how to plant Christmas Potatoes UK. You can find out lots more tips and advice on growing vegetables here.