Get seed potatoes
You can get seed potatoes in the garden center or via garden mail order. By pre-germinating the potatoes about two to four weeks before sowing, you can accelerate the growth of the tubers.
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the sowing the new potatoes starts from March. Mid-early and late potatoes are sown from mid-April to late May.
Prepare the bed
That Bed for the potatoes, digging will take place as early as autumn. In the spring you break up the clods with a cultivator and rake the soil smooth. With the cultivator handle, you create furrows about 10 cm deep with a row spacing of at least 60 cm.
Sow potatoes step by step
- Place seed potatoes in the furrow at a distance of 30 cm
- the shoots must point upwards
- rotted compost as fertilizer give over the seed
- Rake furrows loosely with soil
- Water carefully so that the soil is not washed away
Don't forget to pile up!
Potatoes are a must
piled up will. This not only protects against frost, but also against exposure to light and formation green spots by the poisonous solanine.The first paddling is done directly after sowing, by raking up soil with the rake over the furrow to form a dam. If the first shoots look out later, a new layer of soil is paved over it.
Until the potatoes bloom, repeat the piling up every 2 weeks until the mound is about 30 cm high. Especially if the dam is worn away by heavy rain, new piling has to be carried out.
Tips & Tricks
A Polytunnels(€ 5.80 at Amazon *) protects especially new potatoes from frost. A positive side effect: the air heats up under the film and promotes growth. Inexpensive polytunnels are available as kits in garden shops.
