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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …