Christmas Already????????? I Don’t Believe It!

(in my best Victor Meldrew voice…)

With the hottest week upon us … I’m sat melting in 26 degrees in the office as I read my copy of Kitchen Garden to see it’s already time to be thinking about planting potatoes ready for Christmas!

If you plant potatoes now – ideally in containers so you can move them into your greenhouse or polytunnel as the weather turns later in the year – you should have a delicious crop of new potatoes in the winter.

Although growing potatoes ‘out of season’ can be tricky by planting them in containers you are going to bypass many of the potential problems – you can control the warmth of the compost and prevent the conditions becoming too wet (which can happen if planting directly into the ground) and you have the option to move the containers or cover them with fleece when it starts to get cold.

You can read more about growing Potatoes for Christmas in the August issue of Kitchen Garden … work now and enjoy later!