Versatile when cooking, hardy when growing. Here is how to sow potatoes.

In the vegetable garden, field or even a vase, sowing potatoes can be incredibly satisfying, while also decorating ornamental flowers and plants for our gardens.

When do you sow potatoes? The time required to grow potatoes varies from 80 to 110 days depending on the variety. The perfect climate for sowing is mild, without any heat waves or frosts: for the best development of tubers, temperatures should remain between about 16 and 26°C.

How do you sow potatoes? As already mentioned, potatoes are a hardy vegetable that adapts well to different types of soil. However, special attention must be paid to preparing the soil, which should be loose, so the tubers can develop as smoothly as possible. When sowing in a vegetable garden or a field, it is common practice to make parallel furrows in the soil, about 10 cm deep and about 70 cm apart, in which you place the potatoes 30 cm from each other and then cover them up. While growing potatoes in a vase requires, first and foremost, a high container (about 1 metre). The potatoes should then be planted at a depth of at least 40 cm. In all cases, potatoes require constant irrigation, but which does not encourage waterlogging that could damage the tubers.

How do you know when potatoes are ready to be harvested? In most cases, the main indicator of how ripe the tubers are is the plants. When they start to dry out, you can get ready for harvesting.

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