Potatoes & Why We Love Them

Potatoes & Why We Love Them
The humble spud is back! Spuds have fought their way back onto our dinner plates after years of misleading data about the nutritional value. Once it was said that potatoes were fattening, full of useless starch & high in cholesterol. But scientists have been busy disproving this misinformation and gone a step further and found ...

Vegetable Seeds for Christmas Dinner

Vegetable Seeds for Christmas Dinner
Most gardening takes place between March and September when the weather is good and soils are warm. mid Spring is certainly a very busy period when sowing vegetable seeds both indoors and outdoors is taking place. This is the best time to grow as almost anything can be sown from St. Patricks Day onwards. However ...

Soil Preparation For Growing Potatoes

Soil Preparation For Growing Potatoes
The Staple diet for every Irish family! Potatoes are such a versatile vegetable take it is easy to find a use from them from one day to the next. Be it chips, roasties, mash, wedges, crisps or boiled potatoes you can easily grow your own potatoes in your garden and harvest them as you need ...

Slug Damage to Potato Crops

Slug Damage to Potato Crops
Spuds are a hard crop to grow. They take up a lot of space in the garden and require a lot of ground preparation and care to ensure a healthy harvest. So it can be very disheartening when, after a summer of tendering your crops you find that your harvest of potatoes has been attacked ...

Storing Your Potatoes With The Potato Clamp

Storing Your Potatoes With The Potato Clamp
With the harvest very much in full swing we turn of attention on how to store and keep our crops in a suitable order over the winter months. There is a clear understanding that we must maintain a cool and dry environment with good airflow to keep vegetables as these are the conditions which allow ...

Before Planting Potatoes, Get to Know your Plot

Before Planting Potatoes, Get to Know your Plot
All that stands between a bountiful crop and a determined gardener is the plot which he has to work with. There are a number of elements to consider when looking over your plot and assessing its suitability to grow potatoes and other vegetables. Size: How big is your plot? For a family of 4 you ...

Tips For Growing Seed Potatoes

Tips For Growing Seed Potatoes
If you are thinking about growing potatoes in your vegetable garden this year be sure to take the time to plan out and prepare your plot before sowing. Potatoes are hungry vegetables and like a lot of nutrients and soil that is slight acidic to grow well. If you prepare your site just right, you ...