Potatoes

Having your own home-grown Christmas Day spuds is a dream for many growers. Who doesn’t want to make their Christmas meal that little bit more special by including some homegrown …

Potato berries are a natural part of the potato plant’s life cycle. These small, green fruits resemble cherry tomatoes and contain up to 300 true potato seeds. However, they are …

This is one of those gardening things that some people do while others will have never even heard of. Cutting your seed potatoes in half to get extra seed potatoes. …

With all root crops, it can be a struggle to know when they are truly ready, and potatoes are no expectation to this. How do you know whether your spuds …

Have you noticed your potatoes starting to flower? If so, then you need to remove them, let me explain. Potato Flowers Potato flowers are beautiful; there is no getting away …

If you are looking for a really cheap way of growing potatoes, then why not try buckets? These regular builders buckets are really cheap, I picked these up for less …

Potatoes are a staple of allotment plots up and down the country. But how do you maximise your harvest and grow the best spuds? Potato Types The first place to …

Many people can be put off growing potatoes, thinking they need a lot of room to grow them successfully. I admit I used to think like this and dedicated one …

Do you have a shady spot in the garden and want to know if potatoes will work in it? Well, that is precisely the dilemma I faced, so I thought …

Want to use chicken manure to fertilise your potatoes but you are not sure whether it is a good idea or not? Let’s have a look and find out if …

If you have just successfully grown potatoes in bags/pots/containers then firstly, congratulations I hope you enjoy your homegrown spuds, second, you will want to know what to do with all …

Growing some potatoes and can’t wait to get your hounds on your bountiful harvest? But just how big is this harvest going to be? How many potatoes can you expect …

Our vegetable gardens are constantly changing and evolving, it is one of the things that makes them so exciting. Summer crops follow spring crops and so on and so forth, …

Got a spare patch in the vegetable garden that needs filling and wondering if potatoes will work or is it possibly a little late for them? Can you plant potatoes …

Potatoes are an easy crop to grow and provide a lot of calories, as such they would be a great crop to grow all year round. But is this possible …