Planting Potatoes – How To Plant Potatoes Video

Sam Youd, head gardener at the famous Tatton Park Gardens, plants out his seed potatoes. He shows you what is meant by a chit as in chitting potatoes and when to plant out your potatoes as well as the correct method for planting them.

Planting out Potatoes

In the video Sam plants out his seed potatoes in the traditional way but there are variations even on the traditional method of planting out potatoes – making the hole using a bulb planter or drawing a trench and laying comfrey leaves in the base or grass cuttings.

Because potatoes are a staple and important crop, I’ve covered them in a lot of detail both on the web site.

Detailed information on the site about growing potatoes which you can read up on here:

• Growing Potatoes Overview – How to Grow Potatoes Guide
• Growing Potatoes – Standard Traditional Method
• Growing Potatoes Under Straw Mulch
• Growing Potatoes Under Black Plastic (Polythene) Sheet
• Potato Growing in Raised Beds & Ridge Planting Potatoes
• Growing Potatoes in a Barrel – Patio Growing Potatoes
• Growing Potatoes in Bags | Greenhouse Potatoes
• Second Crop Autumn Planted Christmas New Potatoes
• Potato Varieties for Flavour -Boiled Baked Roasted Mashed
• Potato Fertiliser Program Program & (NPK) Requirements
• Potato Blight Cause, Identification. Prevention, Treatment Potato Blight
• Wireworm in Potatoes Cause Identification Prevention Control Potato Wireworm
• Eelworm Potato Cyst Nematode – Control Potato Eelworm
• Dry Rot in Potatoes Cause Identification Prevention Control of Potato Dry Rot
• Potato Scab – Common Scab in Potatoes
• Potato Scab – Powdery Scab in Potatoes
• White Spots on Potatoes Lenticels & Potato Stem Rot