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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.

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Which potato for your recipes

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 …

December 10, 2021Potato Growing Guides Read more
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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 11, 2015Allotments, General, In the Veg Patch, Potato Growing Guides, Vegetable Growing 2 CommentsRead more
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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 …

January 14, 2015Allotments, Grafted veg, In the Veg Patch, Potato Growing Guides, Vegetable Growing Read more

GROWING FOR SHOWING – potatoes, onions and garlic

I was doing so well. Most of the seeds and plants are ordered and now I’m awaiting delivery. Great. My potatoes are chitting beautifully and have …

February 18, 2014Garlic, In the Veg Patch, Onions, Potato Growing Guides, Vegetable Growing Read more

Disaster has struck..

..In the name of Blight! Below are some piccies of the disease:                    It is May, and already the English weather has been …

May 28, 2010Potato Growing Guides, Vegetable Growing Read more

Potates nearing lift-off

Not long ago, I said that my second crop potatoes were doing well (see my post of 27th August). A month later, as you can see from this photo, they’re …

September 25, 2009Potato Growing Guides Read more

There’s no stopping my Second Crop potatoes

I planted second crop potatoes in my potato buckets a few weeks ago – I’ve grown main crop potatoes in buckets before, but never late season. And …

August 27, 2009Potato Growing Guides Read more

Harvest Time

Took advantage of the weather yesterday and dug up our remaining crop of potatoes.  We planted Maxine this year, a lovely rosy coloured potato with a very …

August 10, 2009Potato Growing Guides Read more

Seed potatoes found!

An exhaustive stock check has revealed that we’ve got a limited number of potatoes left – there are some Vales Emerald potatoes and some Patio …

July 31, 2009News from Suttons, Potato Growing Guides 1 CommentRead more

What do you see?

My boss tipped his potato buckets out this weekend and brought this in for us to have a look at today and we have had several discussions… What do you …

July 27, 2009In the Veg Patch, Potato Growing Guides, Vegetable Growing Read more
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