The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) encourages gardeners to label their egg boxes with the variety of potato that is being ...

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If you’ve always fancied having a go at growing potatoes, now’s the time to start. Home-grown varieties are invariably ...

FEBRUARY is a good month to start thinking about potatoes – and how you’re going to plant them. Gone are the days when the ...

It's time to think about buying and chitting those yummy 'Earlies' seed potatoes so they're ready to plant in March ...

Discover how to grow potatoes both in the ground and in a pot on the patio. Whether you love new potatoes, roast potatoes or jacket potatoes, we've grown and tasted lots of different varieties so we ...

Warmer February days can see the early rising of spring blooms - but organisation for vegetable growing is key in this winter ...

Potatoes like plenty of sun, so avoid planting them in frost-prone sites, as these conditions can damage the developing foliage. If you're starting up a vegetable plot on very weedy ground or old ...

You can plant them as shallow as two inches beneath the soil surface. As the foliage grows, you may want to mound some soil where ground meets green growth in order to protect potatoes — they ...

When you start planting potatoes, the soil temperature should be at least about 45 degrees. With the uncertainty of weather, potato growers also need to be cautious about frost as while the stems ...

After the potatoes are planted, they grow roots down into the soil. Then new shoots reach up through the soil towards sunlight, and soon there are green leaves above ground. The shoots produce ...