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More and more people are starting to get into growing their own produce for a number of reasons.  Some people feel that they will taste better, have more nutrients and also be better for the environment.  Whatever your reasons, growing potatoes can be a great way to get into arena of growing your own fruit and veg.

First of all you need to decide what you are going to grow your potatoes in.  If you have a look at the different options available to you, you will see that there are grow bags, barrels, wire cages or you can simply grow them in the ground.  What system you decide to chose can greatly depend on how much space you have and how much you want to grow.

Many people like to buy a potato planter because they are great for small gardens and you can fold them up and store them away outside of the growing season.  Normally you will grow between 3 and 5 seed potatoes in one of these planter bags at a time.

If you decide to go down the route of growing potatoes in a planter bag, then it’s suggested that you have about 3 bags and grow the potatoes about a month or so apart.  This means you will be able to enjoy home grown potatoes for a good number of months of the year.

When it comes to actually planting a seed potato, there are differing opinions on the matter.  Most people tend to buy seed potatoes and there many different ones on the market and some of them look rather strange!  Varieties include California White Potato, Red Pontiac, Katadin Potato, Yukon Gold and Russian Banana Fingerling.

Some people, on the other hand,  simply use an old potato that’s been sitting about and is a bit past the stage of being able to eat.  You will see that the potato is starting to get wrinkly and growing “eyes” and is sprouting.

The more eyes a potato has, the more potatoes it will produce but they will be of smaller size.  Conversely, if your seed potato has less eyes, you will produce less potatoes but they will be larger.  If you decide to do this then you can either just plant the potato as a whole or you can cut them up.

When cutting up an old potato, you need to make sure there is one “eye” per section. Leave the cut potato to sit for a couple of days before planting so that the potato is given enough time to start healing.  This is said to prevent the potatoes from being infected by diseases in the soil.

Then you can plant the seed potatoes set about planting the seed potatoes in the planter bag. Basically you need to add about 5 inches of compost and then arrange the 5 potatoes to look like the 5 dots on a dice.  Then sprinkle in fertilizer before adding in more compost.

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