31/10/2026
Potato time 🥔 get them going once your last frost date has passed for Bathurst that’s now!
Grow them in grow bags or really big pots or garden beds - put them on 10cm of good potting soil, mixed with coco coir and some potash mixed in.
Sit potato on top and cover very lightly so the top of eyes are covered - let them grow about 12cm and cover them up again with soil, leaves, coir, mulch or a mix of everything - just cover -Leaving a few top leaves out and feed them again , they need steady water. Hill one more time when they have grown another 15cm then leave them to grow flower and die back and then harvest 😋
Early season take about 80 days, main crop take about 120.
All potatoes grow above the seed potato that you plant. There are a few types to think about when you choose variety:
-determinate -that crop all in one spot under the bush and -indeterminate that grow all along the buried stem
Store in a cool dark place to harden the skins off - don’t wash or brush just leave them sit and use any damaged ones first potato 🥔 are really great crops
A note about planting sprouted supermarket potato- Keep them out of your garden bed - planting sprouted supermarket potatoes puts risk of disease into your beds - I have had to physically dig all the soil out of my bed because of it- absolutely not worth it - blight and disease is an absolute gardening nightmare well worth $10 to buy certified seed potato & not have to worry about it!
