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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

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

Hi i have planted 2 variaties maris piper and charlotte in bags... They have grown really well and I keep them well watered and fed..The maris piper are in flower but the charlottes arent but I have had a look and there are potatoes in the charlotte

I've just grown my first maincrop potatoes - maris peer and a purple skinned one (can't remember what it's called). When I went into the garden this morning the leaves were rotted on all of them. They were fine earlier in the week (a bit chewed

Year one growing potatos in containers was successful. Year two i planted early variety in November 2011 which have failed with first frost. Top foliage fell over and died away.What i need to know is, do i excavate the tubers and destroy them and do