Potatoes in pots

No other vegetable is as easy to look after as potatoes. Which is enough of a reason to plant potatoes on a balcony. In terms of self-sufficiency, the harvest yield is not enough at the end, of course, but you should still be able to get one or two meals out of it.

• Potatoes need a bright sunny location.
• Choose a large, deep pot for growing potatoes in. Don’t forget to put in a drainage hole.
• Potatoes grow best in light, sandy soil. So mix a little sand into the potting soil.
• Only half fill the pot with the earth-sand mixture.
• Potatoes need lots of nutrients. Add some Organic Multipurpose Plant Food to the soil.
• Now place the chitted potatoes onto the substrate and add more earth to the pot until it is two-thirds full.
• Keep the soil slightly moist but not too wet.
• As soon as the first green shoot appears, add more soil up to the first leaves (earthing up). Repeat this several times until the pot is completely filled with soil.
• The potatoes are ripe as soon as the leaves start to turn yellow and begin to wilt. Leave the potatoes in the pot for a few more days. Then you can harvest them.