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Hi I have a couple questions. Does anyone know if I can plant potatoes all year round? Also does anyone know if I can grow tomatoes inside, I know right now isn't the best time to grow tomatoes which is why I thought inside could be an idea? Thanks

By Wouldliketogrow24 on 23 September 09 in Growing

FenellaJ is quite right about the toms. You can start the plants early on a warm windowsill or heated propagator and you can get fruit from May to October in a greenhouse. If you keep the leftover green toms in a drawer and bring a few at a time out to ripen on a sunny windowsill you can have fresh toms until Christmas. but they never taste as good as those picked warm from the vine in summer.
You can grow spuds under cover to crop from april and outside maincrops can stay in the ground until late October or be lifted and stored through the winter.
Some seed firms sell heat-treated seed potatoes to plant in autumn to give new potatoes for Christmas. They are expensive and low-yielding and you must grow them indoors. And, it's a bit weird to have new pots for Christmas when you have lovely freshly-lifted floury maincrop. yum.

By JulesBD on 22 October 09 | Report misuse
Tomatoes need heat and light. To provide these out of season is more expensive than buying tomatoes from Harrods! The joy of growing your own is to eat in season, trying to wrench a crop of toms out of your garden in midwinter is madness. If you have a greenhouse/polytunnel stick to winter salad leaves, then plant some tates just after christmas for a lovely early crop of new pots when the ones in the shops will be expensive.

By fenellaj on 22 October 09 | Report misuse
hi ye u can winter potatoes but dont know about the tomatoes

By sean-bennitt on 23 September 09 | Report misuse