Growing Potatoes

The spuds above are fresh out of the ground, but 6 weeks earlier they came from one mouldy old spud in the kitchen.

How to grow a potato, the lazy way.

1) dig hole approx 15cm deep and wide...to put mouldy spud in.
2) put mouldy spud in hole.
3) cover mouldy spud up with the soil you just dug out
4) water it if it doesnt rain
5) in the next few weeks, watch a plant grow, where you planted mouldy.
6) watch plant flower nice white flowers a few weeks after that.
7) after mouldy spud has spent a month or so in the ground, and the plant has flowered you should start to get potatoes in the soil at the base of the little shrub plant thing.
8) if you are very lazy and don't want to hunt around the soil hunting for the potatoes, just pull the entire plant out and most of the potatoes will come out with the plant.


if you are more serious about it all, when the plant is growing, you should put more soil around the plant and keep building it up and up....so the soil might be a foot or two higher than when you planted it.

Yes you can cut the original potato (that is mouldy) into quarters and get 4 plants from it...but i am too lazy to do that.
Yes you can grow spuds from seed too.
Yes, having good soil and sunlight make all the difference.