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I have some little potatoes (maris piper) from this years yeild can I leave them to sprout and use them to grow some more next year..if they will last that long or do I need seeding potatoes.. Im new to growing veg so any advice would be grateful

hi i have just acquired an allotment. on digging it i am finding lots of rotting potatoes that by looks of things were planted last year and havent been harvested. i have removed the ones i have found, but wonder whats the best thing to grow in same

i planted a potato on the 16th feb 2012 in a pot noodle pot with some seed compost and put in a dark place for a month or so and it grew a cupple of stems and a good root sistem and planted in a contaner in mid march and it don brilliant i got a

We have an outbreak of potato blight at the allotment.  If we spoary with bordeaux mixture now and it rains in a couple of days - wouold we need to spray again after bearing in mind that the mixture might have had time to dry on the plants by then

Hi everyone can anyone explain why my potatoe (stem/leaves )grow up to about 4feet tall i have tried putting the tubers in deep and i also earth up, i have to somehow put a tie round to stop them falling over, i have tried them in 2or 3 different

Hi Can I plant potatoes at this time of year ? ..if so which variety are best? Thanks hate to tell you its not the time to do it really.I have bunged in some old potatoes and got a poor result in autumn.I don't know if there is a variety for winter

Hi All. Just been putting pen to paper and planning out my veggie beds for the coming year.  I am wondering about growing some sweet potatoes for a change.  I find they go really well in curries, with and without meat,  and my grandson likes them

Hi, I've recently dug up a potato crop and most of them are quite small. I prefer to grow veg naturally no feed only sun shine (HA !!) and water. Any advice to make potatoes bigger? James Simple-you have to feed plants or feed the soil so they can

Hi All My potato plants have grown very tall I have 10  plants and 5 have grown to almost a metre in height is this normal I was under the impression they would grow out wards rather than up. They are in a vegetable plot so not in bags or raised

Never seen this before on potato leaves and I have been growing them for over 40 years. Anyone any ideas?  Not insect eggs and eventually the leave curl up and rot. Looking through Mr Hessayon's book, it looks like 'Mosaic Virus' - treatment: none