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Potato is one of the staple foods of humanity. With these tubers, you can feed a family for months on end. Learn to germinate, sow, and harvest potato.

Sweetcorn Chowder with Charred Cob Broth and Chive Oil

 Bowl of golden sweetcorn chowder with whole kernels and potato chunks, drizzled with bright green chive oil, chilli slices, fresh corn cobs beside it outdoors

Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease

 septoria plants

Spring sowing and planting

 Row of onion and strawberry plants

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

 Raised beds with companion planting

Solanum, Potato vine, a jasmine look-alike

 solanum jasminoides - potato vine

The Children’s vegetable patch – with a simple planting calendar, too!

 Toddler watering tulips.

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

 Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Sweet potato, a crop that grows well in cool climates

 Sweet potato

Forgotten heirloom vegetables… rediscover the tastes of old!

 Parsnip at the market and other heirloom vegetables

Potato, how to grow and harvest potatoes

 Potato planting, care and harvest

Germinating potatoes at the right time

 Germinated potatoes chopped up in quarters for more plants.

Potato beetle, strike the striped Colorado beetle early!

 Colorado potato beetle

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

 A sliced vitelotte black potato on a fresh harvest shows its purple insides.

30+ plants to grow from kitchen scraps – no need to go buy seeds!

 Grow plants from scraps

Potato planting from germination to harvest in 2 minutes

Potato health benefits and therapeutic value

 Health benefits of potato

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

 Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements