How to Grow Potatoes in the Vegetable Garden.
Anyone can grow potatoes in the garden. It is not difficult if the needs of the potato are met. Think what the potato needs to grow, cherish it and check it daily. Plant one or two potatoes in the first year, to see how they grow and build up confidence. Potatoes can be grown in 10 litre pots (you could use dustbins or buckets - one seed potato per pot), or in the vegetable garden.
The first steps for growing potatoes are:
- Plan how many potatoes to grow, and whether to grow earlies and/or maincrop
- Choose the potato varieties you want to grow
- Prepare the soil in the vegetable garden
- Buy the seed potatoes
- Chit the potatoes
- Plant the potatoes
A useful post that will help me to plant my early and main crop potatoes in my new raised beds.
Sara from farmingfriends
Comment by farmingfriends - January 13, 2008 5:23 pm
Sara
Glad you found this post useful. Good luck with the new beds!
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg - January 14, 2008 7:54 am
i learnd that iff you dont plant patatoes rightly and you harvest them it can give you a scin disease.is that true?
Comment by jhonny - January 15, 2008 1:24 am
Hi jhonny
Good to hear from you in Canada.
Our potatoes can get a skin disease called scab. This produces unsightly scabby spots or patches on the skin of the tuber, but the potatoes can still be eaten.
This is why it is important to plant good, clean seed that does not have scab, because it will be passed on. Also, planting potatoes on fresh ground(rotating) will mean that the soil is not so likely to be full of scab organisms.
Thanks for visiting
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg - January 15, 2008 8:48 am
Very useful post….!
Comment by Kevin - April 26, 2008 4:25 am
Thanks Kevin!
Comment by TopVeg - April 26, 2008 6:25 am
Good to hear from you in Canada.
Our potatoes can get a skin disease called scab. This produces unsightly scabby spots or patches on the skin of the tuber, but the potatoes can still be eaten.
Comment by acer - July 1, 2008 5:28 am
good！
Comment by acer - July 1, 2008 5:30 am
Hi Acer
Thanks for your comment. We get scab,too. Some varieties are worse than others - corky scab wrote off our crop of Cara a couple of years ago
Comment by TopVeg - July 1, 2008 5:42 am