Potatoes from your own garden? It's easier than you think. If you want to grow potatoes yourself, you can find our instructions here.
Potatoes and of course many other types of vegetables from your own garden taste much better than bought vegetables. If only because you put your hand to it. So if you want to grow potatoes yourself, then you should follow the step-by-step instructions below:
Simple and tasty: plant potatoes and grow them yourself
Step 1: Pre-germinate potatoes
From March onwards, let the tubers germinate in a box filled with nutrient-rich compost soil. Put the box in the dark and turn out the sprouts that are already there. Store the box at a maximum of 15 degrees. The basement is best for storage.
Step 2: Planting potatoes
From April we'll be outside. New potatoes can be planted as early as March, the rest from April to May. To do this, you can dig a pit, add matured compost and place the tuber about 10 centimeters deep and at a minimum distance of about 30 - 40 cm. You then have to close the hole with soil again.
If you want, you can also make furrows (see picture above) and place the potatoes in them. It is only important that the potatoes are placed in the ground with the sprouting upwards. Also nice to see on the cover picture above.
Step 3: Pile up and care for the beds
As soon as the first sprouts grow out of the ground, you have to pull the weeds and loosen the soil regularly. When the plant is approx. 20 - 30 centimeters high, the so-called piling up takes place. This means that more soil is piled up under the plant so that the bulbs growing underground do not grow out of the ground. The accumulation takes place in a rhythm of approx. 2 - 3 weeks.
Step 4: Fertilize
If at all necessary, fertilize the potatoes with wood ash and shredded comfrey leaves.
Step 5: Harvest
You can harvest the potatoes when the leaves have died and you have waited a good two weeks for it.
My potato recommendation
Last year we also grew potatoes for the first time and achieved excellent results with the "Linda" variety. A classic that you can't go wrong with. I had ordered this variety from the Pötschke shop.