Water requirements for potato plants are pretty simple. They need about 1-2 inches of water per week throughout their growing ...

If you plant your potatoes early ... When they’ve sprouted, add another couple inches of soil and another layer of potatoes.

Maincrops take up the most space in the garden, but they tend to be the best varieties to grow if you want some for storage. Your home-grown potatoes should be ready for lifting from June until ...

just like we do. Potatoes don’t grow from a simple seed. They grow from a seed potato. The seed potato has small sprouts on it and is ready to grow. When you forget about potatoes in the ...

He added: "It's costing us more money every year to produce a crop of potatoes and we are reliant on the weather to do that as well. "We have significant increases in all aspects of growing.