Grow Your Own Potatoes

Marie Peer Xmas Potatoes

Why not try growing your own Potatoes this year? They are one of the easiest vegetables to start growing and before you know it your salad potatoes will be ready to eat, topped with butter and a few mint leaves.

Christmas New Potatoes

Buy Tubers: Online or in garden centres from July
Plant Tubers in Pots: Late August
Chitting: No need to chit, just plant in pots.
Harvest: October to December
iGrowVeg How To Guide: How To Grow Potatoes in Pots

Potato To Do List

1. Buy Potato Tubers from garden centres or online shops from December to Early April or August (for Christmas new potatoes).
2. Buy or recycle pots, bags or tubs that are at least 10 inches deep,
3. Plant Salad Potatoes, 1st and 2nd Earlies in late March and early April in pots or raised beds.
4. Plant early or late Maincrop Potatoes in April in pots or raised beds.
5. Plant christmas new potatoes in August in pots.

For more advice on Growing Potatoes, please click links below.

How To Fix Your Chitting Problems

How To Grow Potatoes in Pots

How To Grow Potatoes in Raised Beds

Growing Heritage Seed Potatoes

Potato Disease - Blight

How To Store Potatoes

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• How Not To Store your Maincrop Potatoes,
• Tomato and Potato Blight Disease
• One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
• Pixie, Druid, Kestral and Mayan Queen are all types of what?
• Summer Harvest of Mange Tout, Beans, Carrots and Potatoes

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