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

Grow potatoes on a different patch of ground each year, over a cycle of three, or preferably four, years. This 'crop rotation' helps to stop any pests or diseases building up. Potatoes are greedy ...

Potatoes form best at soil temperatures between 60 and 70°F. You’ll have more planting success if you plant "chitted" or sprouted seed potatoes instead of potatoes without sprouts. Tubers with ...

FEBRUARY is a good month to start thinking about potatoes – and how you’re going to plant them. Gone are the days when the only choice was to plonk them in the ground, earth them up and let ...