Our step-by-step guide on how to grow potatoes in a container includes the best varieties, care, and what to avoid.

March is a good time to plant potatoes, as well as brassicas, beets, carrots, collard greens, bunching onions, kale and ...

For example, containers are a good way to grow acid-loving strawberries or potatoes if your soil is naturally neutral or alkaline.

If you're short of space, try growing potatoes in an adequately drained container that's at least 30cm (1ft) deep and wide. Half fill the pot with multi-purpose compost or good quality ...

Even if you only have a patio, you can grow delicious new potatoes in a large container, a dustbin or even a sack, perhaps with a different variety in each. Work out the space you have and the ...

Growing your own food can improve your physical and mental health, increase sustainable and local food production, is kind to your pocket, ...

For an “extra early” crop, the RHS suggests planting chitted seed potatoes of early varieties at the beginning of March, into large containers in a frost-free greenhouse. Ideally, they should ...

It is easy to assume supermarket packaging is the best container for some fresh ingredients, though not for potatoes ... that mimic a potato’s natural growing conditions, as this will encourage ...

Use a trowel or an old-fashioned potato planter. You can grow potatoes in pots, special potato bags or even an old dustbin as long as it has drainage holes. Fill the container with a Best Buy compost ...