Tea-Break Tutorials - Growing Potatoes

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

Immediate Media

Nature, Home & Garden, Leisure, Science

4.6 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Alan reveals how to grow bumper harvests of potatoes, including how to know when they're ready to harvest, how to store them and the best varieties to grow, in this week’s Tea-Break Tutorial podcast – bite-sized solutions to your gardening questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.4	How to grow potatoes?
0:39.3	An easy to follow tea break tutorial with me, Alan Titchmarsh.
0:49.3	You say potato? I say potato. you say tomato, you say tomato.
0:57.5	Well, no, actually, I do say potato and tomatoes.
1:01.2	It'll be subject of another podcast later in the year.
1:04.3	Potatoes, spodds, tatties, tatters, whatever you like to call them.
1:09.2	These tasty, nutritious tubers are one of the most popular veg grown in the UK
1:16.4	and one that the Gardner's World these shores. They originate in Peru. They were popular with the Inca's.
1:47.0	I don't think they had French fries. They're like gold, only tastier.
1:53.0	The Spanish conquistadors brought them to Europe in the 1570s and Sir Francis Drake or Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Thomas Harriet, they're all credited with
2:03.5	bringing them to this country in around the 1560s, 70s and 80s. But like many addictive
2:10.5	American imports, potatoes quickly became hugely popular in the British eyes. Well, it's easy to
2:16.9	see why, isn't it? I mean,
2:18.1	nutritionally, potatoes pack a punch. They're high energy. Vitamins, a bit of protein, no fat.
2:25.8	They are a great staple food and they're cheap to produce. A friend of mine says you should never say
2:32.2	cheap, you should say inexpensive.
2:38.1	Big rewards for little outweighs. It's win, win, win, isn't it really?
2:43.7	So in this tea break tutorial, I'm going to talk through the essentials of growing potatoes from plot to plate or from chitting to chipping, if you like. We'll discuss how to tell your earlies from your main crops
2:52.6	and your charlots from your King Edwards.
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