Date posted: Tuesday 28th January 2025
Seed potatoes are available at the Hut. They are cheap (still 10p per tuber in 2025) and all three varieties are winners of the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM):
When you get your seed potatoes home you should remove them from the bag and put them in a light, frost-free, cool place, for example a spare bedroom window sill. Put them in an egg box or something similar with end with the rose of ‘eyes’, which are the buds which develop into shoots, pointing upwards. The other end has a stump from where it was joined to the parent plant. Strong dark green shoots should start to grow.
The ground shouldn’t be too wet when you plant potatoes. Around Easter time is the usual time to plant, but they can be planted up until the end of May. It’s simple enough. Use a trowel to dig hole the depth of the trowel, put a potato in, and cover with soil. Space early potatoes in rows 30cm apart. Rows should be 45cm apart. Second early and maincrop potatoes should be spaced roughly 45cm apart and rows 60cm apart.
Early potatoes should be ready to harvest in June or July, with second earlies