How to Seed Potatoes by Using a Step by Step Guide to Growing Potatoes

Potatoes are a firm family favorite for the dinner table. This much-loved tuber favors cool growing seasons, but if you choose seed potatoes and times for planting potatoes with care, you can grow spuds anywhere.

Make It Easier to Grow Potatoes From Seed by Using This Step by Step Guide

Buy seed potatoes from a physical nursery or seed companies. Determine the potato varieties and how many you will need then order from a catalog that offers fast, well packaged delivery.
Select an area in your garden that gets full sun and has well-drained soil. If all of the soil in your garden is very heavy and dense, growing potatoes in raised garden beds is best. You can prepare these quite easily, several weeks before you plant your potatoes.
Dig a trench in the soil to a depth of around 10-12 inches and remove rocks and other debris that could obstruct the potatoes as they grow.
Once you have dug the trench, add in compost or fertilizer and mix well.
Plant 2-inch-diameter, "B" size - which are the most common- potatoes whole. If you buy larger potatoes than this then cut them into pieces with two or three eyes each.
Keep mulching as the potato plants grow.
Harvest small, early potatoes around 7-8 weeks after first planting them. Harvest the main crop about two weeks after the tops have died back.

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