HOW TO GROW POTATOES
The potato is every useful for health vegetable, with a lot of vitamins and minerals.
Presently many varieties there are to grow, a far greater choice than we have from the supermarkets. Growing your own seed gives you the opportunity to sample the many flavors and textures and you get so many from your crops that it really can save you money. There is one more benefit when you grow potatoes as a cleaning up crop, for after growing potatoes the ground is cleaner as during the growing period the tops grow large smothering out weeds.
Of course a great deal of preparation will have gone into the soil, adding large quantities of compost to guarantee a good potato yield, also the crop does not leave behind any detrimental residues so that it is ideal for any crop that is to follow.
How to choose potatoes seed to plant by time maturity
Earlies
If you have limited area, then you should grow the earlier types. Another thing in the early types favor is that because they are lifted earlier, they are less likely to encounter problems such as wireworms, slugs and blight.
Earlies varieties are ready in 15 – 16 weeks after planting(about mid-June and July).
Second Earlies
Second Earlies take 16-17 weeks to mature after planting (about June through to August).
Maincrops
These take up the most space in the garden. But they are the best varieties to store.
Maincrops are ready 18-20 weeks after planting August through to late September.
Try grow potatoes in you garden and you see how it deal is interesting, easy and useful.
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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