Chitting Potatoes

I have been chitting potatoes tonight. Both early and main crop varieties benefit from this, but there is a slightly different way to treat each one. If you haven’t grown early potatoes before then without a doubt, you are missing out and I would urge you to try growing a few this year! Freshly dug […]

Planting Early Potatoes in the Greenhouse

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Today is National Potato Day, so I thought it would be good to plant our early potatoes in the greenhouse. Swift are often called the ‘earliest early’ because they can be harvested as new potatoes in just 60 days when the weather is warm enough. If all goes according to plan, I should have new […]