Farmer's Weekly

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I’ve grown my own fresh produce for the past 52 years in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal. I’ve just transplanted two sweet potatoes and one potato, all grown from 0,5cm slivers of the vegetables, into a big raised bed in full sun, hoping that the bed will be

Earth Garden

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SPUDS – spuds – glorious spuds – how I love to grow my own potatoes. There’s nothing quite like bandicooting about in the soil, pulling up some baby new potatoes, sliding them into a steamer and then tossing them around in melted butter and fresh chi

WellBeing

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When there are far-off dramas and traumas — like pandemics — I empathise with the situation but there’s not much I can do about it. So, I tend the pantry and I garden. When it comes to the pantry, I create order out of, well, not chaos, but very cram

Farmer's Weekly

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Potatoes require irrigation before planting. However, the soil should be moist rather than wet at planting. Make a furrow about 20cm deep, apply fertiliser into the furrow, and plant the tubers. Close the furrow and irrigate lightly. For potatioes gr

Amateur Gardening

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WHILE clearing the veg plot, I was ‘quid’s in’ after repeatedly finding pound coins strewn across the soil. It turned out the same doubloons were falling from a hole in my coat pocket, and after a heads ’n’ tails count of the shrapnel, I found I was

Farmer's Weekly

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Potatoes are consumed by people and livestock, and are also used for industrial purposes. They can be boiled, fried (crisps and chips), baked, mashed and used in stews. They are also used as livestock feed and to make starch, spirits and industrial a

Kitchen Garden

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The humble spud has to be one of the most popular veg to grow in Britain. Both on allotments and in gardens alike, these tasty tubers can be seen growing in a multitude of ways. From pots and bags to open ground, potatoes can be grown just about anyw

Grit

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Unlike many vegetables, sweet potato plants aren’t started from seed or from replanted tubers, but are grown from “slips,” which are pieces of stem with a few leaves that’ve been grown from a mother tuber. We used to buy bare-root slips for our garde

Garden Gate

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You just can’t beat the taste of potatoes freshly dug from your own garden. Boiled, baked, fried or roasted—they’re all delicious. They’re also packed with nutrients, such as vitamins C and B6, magnesium, potassium and dietary fiber. And harvesting t

Good Organic Gardening

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We are never going to starve here. When all else fails I can always find a potato to dig up. Up until the 1960s part of this property was a potato farm and, while we don’t grow any edible plants in that part of the garden, the back garden sprouts spu

Amateur Gardening

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ONE thing that intrigues many gardeners is what earthing up spuds actually involves, why do we do it, and when? Earthing up is drawing soil from around each plant and mounding it around the stem, or haulm as it’s called. The reasons are many. Firstly

Kitchen Garden

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BIGROG106TH: I want to try growing potatoes in pots, but I’m a bit confused. The recommendation is to put three seed potatoes in each pot or growing bag, but that means the distance between tubers is much less than if they were in open ground. Why is

Backyard

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WORDS & PHOTOS: DIANE CRAWFORD The part of the potato plant we eat is familiar — an ovalshaped, thin-skinned, pitted tuber — but the top growth of the plant may not be so recognisable. It grows to around 75cm high and 45cm wide with rigid, slightly h

Eat Well

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WORDS / TERRY ROBSON Following the conquest of the Inca civilisation in 1532, the Spanish conquistadors took back to Spain not only all the precious metal they could find, but also the humble potato. Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with introducing th

Kitchen Garden

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I’d challenge you to find anyone who tends an allotment/veg garden who hasn’t grown potatoes before! In fact, I’d say that potatoes have to be one of the staple crops of the Great British allotment, with many growers debating the merits/problems with

Backyard

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If you did a survey of which vegetable people eat most often, you know what the answer would be. Yes, potato, at least in the western world. Many people eat them at every main meal — they are the staple vegetable. But this wasn’t always so. Europeans

Amateur Gardening

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YOU say ‘potayto’, I say ‘potahto’ … and for the record, botanists prefer ‘underground storage tuber’. Whatever you call them, homegrown spuds are wrapped with more words than Friday night’s fish ’n’ chips. One of the most unusual is ‘chit’ which, th

Kitchen Garden

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Yet again my potato crop has been ruined. I have grown the crop in different parts of the allotment but they are still full of holes. What is eating my potatoes? Christine Joyce, Newcastle upon Tyne Steve Ott, editor, Kitchen Garden magazine STE

Kitchen Garden

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This wind-borne fungal disease manifests itself as brown spots and patches on the leaves and stems. Spores washed down into the soil will also cause the tubers to become infected. HOW TO CONTROL: Cut off infected haulms and burn them (don't put them

Grow to Eat

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Potato harvesting season leaves every vegetable gardener with an impossible question – what on earth do I do with all these potatoes? Once you’ve eaten baked potato for weeks, and desperately handed out extras to anyone who will take them, ‘crafts’ i

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Sweet potatoes are grown from slips – and it’s really easy to grow your own; in fact, simply leave several large, healthy tubers to sprout in a dark vegetable drawer! Most gardeners cover the tubers with about 5 cm of sandy soil until they start to s

Harrowsmith

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You don’t have to be a magician for a kid in your life to think you are. Just dig up a potato or pull a carrot from the ground and watch their eyes widen in wonder. Witnessing a familiar vegetable reveal itself from under the soil is one of the earli

Woman

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Vitamin C is sensitive to light and heat as well as being water soluble, which means it can easily leach out of foods such as vegetables and potatoes, so it needs to be replenished regularly from the diet to ensure good levels. ✱Keep the skins on yo

Post South Africa

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FOR many South African homes, potatoes form part of staple daily meals. But over the past few months, the prices have increased. André Jooste, the chief executive for Potatoes SA (PSA), an industry association, said the prices had risen steeply since

Farmer's Weekly

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This article offered potato growers tips on how to avoid their potatoes being downgraded by government officials at fresh produce markets. It is conservatively estimated that at least half of the millions of pockets of table potatoes marketed by far

Organic NZ

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In April 2006, crop consultant Chris Charrington was monitoring field tomatoes near Gisborne with a colleague, when they noticed something unusual about the crop. On closer inspection, Chris found insects he’d not seen before living under the leaves

Amateur Gardening

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THE hot summer of 1976 and soaring vegetable prices – along with TV show The Good Life – encouraged a greater interest in grow-your-own fruit and veg. Lawns were dug up, demand for allotments increased, and sales of vegetable seeds were greater than

Kitchen Garden

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Most of us plant our potatoes in the spring, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that the potato season was all over, bar the harvesting. However, one of the many reasons for growing your own potatoes, and the main one for many, is the wonderful flavou

Good Organic Gardening

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Words Jennifer Stackhouse One of the most satisfying times in the vegie garden is taking a garden fork and gently pushing it under a clump of potato plants. Lift up the fork and, as the soil falls away, you’ll discover a mass of potatoes. It is a mom

Kitchen Garden

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Rats and mice can wreak havoc if they get into a vegetable store. Keep doors closed and block any gaps so your potatoes, apples and pumpkins remain intact. Protect sprouting pea and bean seeds too - mice dig up seeds and nip off shoots. These grey ap