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OMG I did quite a bit of research on youtube about planting potatoes and several places said plant on St Patricks day - so as this year it happened to be a sunny day ( yes I did say sun ) I did. Do you think they will be ok or will they have

I tweeted Thompson & Morgan with a picture of my potatos as I thought they may have blight. They tweeted back saying it looked like the start of it and to try something called bordeaux spray. Can anyone tell me if this is worth the cost i.e does

Hi all I'm a gardening newbie and I've planted a few chitted seed potatoes in grow bags today.  Am I right in thinking that I only have to protect the leafy bits from frost when they start to poke through?  And will a home-made cloche (recycled milk

Hi Guys Is it ok to start planting my potatoes or have I left it too late? Do it now-if you have seed potatoes they will not keep. Yeah, get them in now Loz - at least you shouldn't have to worry about frost unless you're in Scotland! You

Hi, I have been looking through the forum and doing some reasearch online but have got myself a bit confused. I would like to grow potatoes next year and have heard about potato blight but then not sure which potatoes to grow next year. Can anyone

Hi , last year my three year old son and myself attempted to grow potatoes.  It was far from a sucess. They ended up all mushy and gunky.  I dug them all up and turned the soil. I filled it with home grown compost and covered it down for the winter

my potato hulms have black and brown leaves on the bottom but the tops are still flowering and green is this blight and should I cut the hulms off? It sounds like blight, which often happens when there's been a really wet spell. I'm not sure what

Hi I bought some potato seeds for Christmas and planted them into two compost bags the beginning of August.  They grew to the top of the soil and I filled it up again with about 12ins of compost they are growing out the top of the soil again, do I

chitting later this month? Why don't you plant them in pots of compost , then when you do plant them out they'll have a flying start. I think if you knock off the shoots, they may not shoot again. If you wanted to hold these seed potatoes back until June

Can somebody help me determine what is wrong with my potato crop. My entire crop of King Edwards has either, when cut in half, started going black in the middle or is starting to rot on the outside. Looking at it's foliage, nothing untoward appeared