Best sweet potatoes to grow in the UK
Sweet potatoes are exotic, delicious, and fun to grow at home. With specially developed varieties now available in the UK, growing these tropical vines is …
Potato Growing Guides
Growing Potatoes is a veg plot favourite. They’re easy to grow, and versatile in the kitchen. Explore potato disease, growers advice and how to choose your variety here at Suttons blog.
Best expert advice on how to grow potatoes
To help you grow your own potatoes, we’ve assembled some of the best expert tips while busting some of the myths that make potato growing sound complicated. …
Everything you ever wanted to know about potatoes
The humble spud is a firm favourite in vegetable patches around the UK. Grown in shades of blue, red, pink, purple and cream and available in a whole range of …
How to grow potatoes in pots and containers
Fresh, homegrown potatoes have an extra special flavour and they’re easy to grow once you know how. Whether you have a huge vegetable plot or a tiny …
Which potato?
November is the time to start thinking about which potatoes to grow. We’ll be delivering seed potatoes from December onwards so best get your order in soon …
May Allotment Tips
My allotment has moved on apace since last month. Spring certainly sprung in April and our plots have responded and look great for it! Both second early and …
April Allotment Tips
The key allotment focus at this time of year is potatoes. During the last week of March I got my first early potatoes in. This was after a few days of enforced …
Sweet Potatoes (Ipomoea batatas)
Potato season has started with many seed potatoes chitting away in preparation for planting in a few weeks’ time and others ordered and on their way. We all …
February Allotment Tips
It is fair to say the last few weeks haven’t been allotment gardening weather! Pleasingly now the days are lengthening and the gardening calendar is moving …
The Art of Grafting
It would be easy to think that the art of grafting one plant onto the rootstock of another is relatively new but in fact evidence exists of it having been used …