Growing Potatoes
would love to hear from others who have tried to grow spuds.
there is a very highly regarded firm called "green harvest" who give this advice .......
"Potatoes like a fertile, deeply dug, moist, acidic soil with a pH of less than 6. They do not grow well in heavy clay or a limed soil, which promotes potato scab. To avoid this, always rotate your potato patch each year. Many older varieties of potatoes have lost favour commercially because of either deep eyes or an irregular shape but may have many advantages to the home grower in hardiness, disease resistance and prolific production.
It is usually possible to save some of the harvest from a crop of certified seed potatoes for replanting. Doing this more than once can dramatically increase the risk of disease. Potato diseases can take years to eradicate from a garden"
there is a video on their website to help ......
https://youtu.be/13ynRrHHu58
We have three acres and tried frowing on one acre a few years ago, very unsuccessful now we buy our potatoes in bulk and share with neighbours.