Sweet potatoes will grow however you tell them to, as long as you understand their basic nature, and growing sweet potatoes in raised beds is a great place to start if you have the space to spare. Our guide to sweet potato container gardening has all the steps on getting started, whatever sized space you’re…
Growing sweet potatoes in the UK isn’t simple, but it needn’t be complicated either. This guide gives straightforward advice and fail-safe instructions on getting the most out of that delicious tuber. Everyone has that one crop they’ve just never had any luck with. For me, it’s sweet potatoes, but this year I had a gigantic…
There’s nothing worse than going to gather potatoes from storage only to find that most of them have rotted! Potatoes are supposed to have a pretty long shelf life so how could seemingly healthy potatoes all have gone bad in storage? The reason potatoes start to rot in storage is that diseases enter potatoes through…
Growing big potatoes has become much harder in recent years as erratic shorter growing seasons caused by climate change has massively impacted their growing windows, but freak events like the recent giant potato news in New Zealand have given gardeners reason to be hopeful. If you’re wondering why your homegrown potatoes are smaller than you…
Growing sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) is easy but getting the amount of crops you expect from them might get a little tricky, especially when attempting to grow them in containers. While regular potatoes might thrive in buckets or grow bags, sweet potatoes require perfect conditions to thrive. I’ve tried many times to grow sweet potatoes…
Having a good understanding of succession planting is crucial if you have a small garden and want to maximize your yields. During my first growing season, I’ve had many raised beds sitting empty because I didn’t have a crop ready to go in after I harvested the first one. But research and planning go a long way. I’ve had a particularly bountiful harvest of potatoes and then leeks from the same bed, and I can show you how to do the same.