Facts and figures

Light requirements

Sun / partial shade

Nutrient requirements

Heavy feeder

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Culture (according to Gertrud Franck)

A - tall or wide crops, almost year-round

Row spacing

50 cm

Plant spacing

35 cm

Growth height

30 - 100 cm

Sowing depth

10 cm

Pre-growing period

30 days

Times

Pre-grow

Transplant

Harvest

Transplant to bed from Early April to Late May. Pre-grow about 30 days before planting out, approximately between Early March and Late April. Harvest begins around Early September and continues until Late October.

Sowing and planting

Unless you want to get into breeding new varieties, you don't normally grow potatoes from seed. Instead, you plant (pre-sprouted) seed potatoes. The sowing details here therefore refer to planting seed potatoes.

Neighbourhood

Good neighbours

Bad neighbours

Crop rotation

Potatoes make great predecessors for most vegetables, as they leave behind well-loosened, deeply worked soil. That's why, when setting up new beds, people traditionally grew potatoes as the first crop.

Bad predecessors

Good successors