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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.

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

Sweetcorn Chowder with Charred Cob Broth and Chive Oil

Soup
Sweet potato

Sweet potato, a crop that grows well in cool climates

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Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

Treating diseases and pests
Colorado potato beetle

Potato beetle, strike the striped Colorado beetle early!

Treating diseases and pests
Parsnip at the market and other heirloom vegetables

Forgotten heirloom vegetables… rediscover the tastes of old!

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Row of onion and strawberry plants

Spring sowing and planting

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Grow plants from scraps

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

Indoor plants
Raised beds with companion planting

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

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Germinated potatoes chopped up in quarters for more plants.

Germinating potatoes at the right time

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septoria plants

Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease

Treating diseases and pests

Potato planting from germination to harvest in 2 minutes

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Toddler watering tulips.

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

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solanum jasminoides - potato vine

Solanum, Potato vine, a jasmine look-alike

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

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

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Potato planting, care and harvest

Potato, how to grow and harvest potatoes

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Health benefits of potato

Potato: what it contains, how to use it, and when to leave it alone

Health
Powdery mildew symptoms and treatments

Avoiding and treating powdery mildew

Treating diseases and pests