potato

In this video Mark showcases a vegetable called a potato onion. 🧅 Handy tip! Want to talk to Mark directly? Did you know that there is another way, outside the forum? Support Mark on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier enables mentoring from Mark via an exclusive...

Whilst many people say "don't grow supermarket potatoes", Mark is here to prove them all wrong. About 5 months ago Mark sowed a bunch of old supermarket potatoes that had turned green. He planted them both halved and whole. He gave the raised bed organic fertiliser and some rock dust, and...

Closely following Mark's previous video on growing tiny potatoes, he now shows us what happens if you don't dig in the potatoes. He simply protected the potatoes by layering with mulch.

I have a drum I’ve started growing potatoes in. I will gradually fill the drum over time so the potato stems short more roots and make more potatoes as the drum fills. I have one end of an arch coming out of the drum. I want to plant something with the potatoes to grow along the arch. I guess it...

I haven't had a lot of success with growing potatoes over the last few years but I'm learning :) So fed up of the shops bought spuds that don't even last a week before they start growing. This year I planted nearly 2kg of spuds in a raised garden bed and was thrilled with the results 10.32kg...