How To Grow Healthy Potatoes?

By Sneha Jain

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 17:36

Growing potatoes in your garden can be a very nice idea but there is a procedure to follow. Growing vegetables in your garden which are of regular use and have high fiber content is good plan, but there are rules for you to keep in mind. Have a look at the ways to plant potatoes in your home confines and adopt these simple technique for a better yield. Root vegetables like potato grow easily by adopting simple methods .

TIPS TO GROW POTATOES

1. SEEDS OR MARKET POTATOES- .Potatoes are easy to grow but certain rules must be kept in mind. Seeds can be ordered through mail order garden companies or even buy from local centers. Super market potatoes can be filled with chemicals so avoid them. Keep your seeds in a refrigerator.

2. IDEAL TIME TO GROW POTATOES- The next step is to decide the climate you want to grow potatoes. Potato take two to three weeks to emerge from the ground so plant seed potatoes two weeks before the anticipated freeze date. Growing vegetables in your own garden without any hassle is provided. You can follow these steps. About a week before growing potatoes bring them out of your fridge and place them under a bright window. This will help the potato grow quickly and it will help the spud dormancy, when you put them in cool spring soil.

3. POTATO PLANTING IN SUMMER- Growing vegetables in summer can also be recommended. But for vegetables that are actually roots, cold weather is preferred. But if this summer you are planning to grow potatoes then play safe, planting potatoes early is a better idea. Choose varieties that mature early because vegetables that grow underground, especially potatoes do not grow well in 90 degrees Fahrenheit temperature..If you are growing vegetables like potato in the late planting season, in the hot temperature when the tubers are in the early bulking stage, you may end up getting a very low yield.

4. DIRECT PLANTING- Some people also adopt a short cut for growing vegetables. They want to grow root vegetables like potatoes by just tossing potato pieces bare on the ground. They even grow it on a patch of sod and cover it with straws or leaves. But this gardening tip may not yield many potatoes as growing the vegetable by burring it in the prepared garden bed.

Gardening can be a very interesting idea and having vegetables grow in your garden can add lot of variety. This will help you intake the nutrients without any hassle. Root vegetables are a healthy diet option and it can be easily available by just a little effort. By growing potatoes in your garden you can get variety of potatoes of different shapes and colours. So keeping these simple gardening tips in mind you can have vegetables in you garden.