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How to Grow Potatoes: Complete Beginner’s Guide
From seed potatoes to storage — the full path for home gardeners, with links to deeper guides on each step.
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Grow Your Own Potatoes
Everything you need to grow better potatoes at home. Practical guides grounded in university extension advice — not guesswork.
Start Here
Four foundations most new growers need before anything else.
Growing Guides
Growing Methods
Harvest & Storage
Problems
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Eight focused categories — not a random blog archive.
Growing Potatoes
The complete beginner’s guide and hub for growing potatoes at home.
Planting
When, how deep, how far apart, and how to plant seed potatoes.
Seed Potatoes
Eyes, cutting, sprouting, and certified seed vs grocery potatoes.
Potato Care
Water, sun, soil, fertilizer, mulching, and hilling.
Growing Methods
Pots, containers, grow bags, straw, and raised beds.
Harvesting
New potatoes, mature harvest timing, and how to dig gently.
Storage
Curing, cool storage, sprouting, and green potatoes.
Problems
Yellow leaves, small tubers, and common growing setbacks.
Latest guides
30 articles
- PlantingBeginner8 min
How to Plant Potatoes
Cut, dry, and plant seed pieces the way extension guides recommend — depth, orientation, and row setup.
- PlantingTiming7 min
When to Plant Potatoes
Plant when soil hits about 45°F — how frost, climate, and early vs late crops change your window.
- PlantingTiming6 min
How Long Do Potatoes Take to Grow?
New potatoes in about 6–8 weeks; full-size storage crops usually need 90–120 days, depending on variety.
- PlantingSpacing5 min
How Far Apart to Plant Potatoes
Use closer spacing for more small tubers, wider spacing for larger storage potatoes — plus row spacing.
- PlantingDepth5 min
How Deep to Plant Potatoes
Most spring plantings go 3–5 inches deep; later crops often go deeper. Why depth matters for sprouts and tubers.
- Seed PotatoesBeginner6 min
What Is a Seed Potato?
Seed potatoes are tubers grown for planting — not true botanical seed — and certified stock is the safer start.
- Seed PotatoesPlanting6 min
How to Cut Seed Potatoes
Aim for roughly 1½-inch pieces with one to three eyes, then let cut surfaces dry before planting.
- Seed PotatoesEyes5 min
How to Grow Potatoes From Potato Eyes
Eyes are buds that become shoots — how to use them correctly without planting too-thin scraps.