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I have a small amount of potatoes,grown successfully.I will be going away early September for 5 weeks,returning October 9.Should I lift all the potatoes before I go or leave them in the ground till Oct.?How should I store them?

Its my first time growing potatoes and the flowers are coming out on some of them. When do I harverst them? I planted them 11th and 28th March.(I have them growing in bags).

I bought too many seed potatoes in my local garden centre. I assumed they'd be OK to eat, but it was suggested by a friend that maybe they'd be sprayed/treated in some way.

Can I grow potatoes in the same ground 2 years running? Have grown them successfully but usually skipped a year.

I work in a school garden. Because the children get holidays at the end of June, we try to sow the chitted seed potatoes by mid March at latest. This year Easter hols are very early so we probably need to sow next week. With the bouts of frost and cold....Is this going to affect the potatoes in the ground or will they just start growing in the soil when temperatures start rising. Ideally I would like to leave sowing them until until slightly later in March.....last year with late harsh frosts... I had to cover foliage as it appeared.

What's likely cause? it occurred on the potatoes from just one plant. Plants either side are okay

I found wasps on my potato stalks today. They were on two different plants. They were grown from the fruit that formed on the stalks of sharpo axon is that l had growing last year. I was wondering what was the attraction. I have never seen it before.

can you grow new potatoes for Christmas?

I have sowed new potatoes and kerr's pink potatoes in back Garden which has not been sown in years The new potatoes were perfect and clean, they turned out great big and floweryThe Pink potatoes are bit scabby but seem ok to eat, very flowery, What causes the skin to be scabby

I've just read nearly all the answers on spuds. I"m not sure any of them answersed mine. My potatoes are in various stages of dieback, some completely, some half way ect. My problem is, I have started to dig them and I"m finding good ones and rotten ones under each stalk, their Roosters, and I have sprayed for blight on a regular basis. The stalks don"t look blighted, can I save the good ones and are they safe to eat? Also, their only medium to small size.

I've grown Nicola potatoes in the same ground for the last two seasons and wonder can they be put there again for the third season. I've heard where they should be moved to a different spot every couple of years. Nothing else has ever been grown in this particular bit of ground.

I am hoping for the first time to plant a vegetable garden and am in the planning stages. For a family size garden, what size areas chould I allow for say potatoes, carrot, parsnips, onions etc.