Let’s Grow Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes

There’s something incredibly satisfying about planting one small seed potato or sweet potato slip and, a few months later, digging up a whole basket of food.

Our Let’s Grow Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes Guide takes you through the entire growing journey, in the simple, practical VanZylStead way.

We cover when to plant in South Africa, preparing your soil, seed potatoes and slips, different growing methods, growing in containers, feeding and watering, companion planting, common pests and diseases, troubleshooting, harvesting, curing, storing and preserving your crop.

We also share some of the methods we love using at VanZylStead—from traditional in-ground growing and containers to growing potatoes under hay and experimenting with sweet potatoes in conditioned hay bales.

Whether you have a big veggie garden, a raised bed or just a container on your patio, this guide will help you get started and understand what your plants need from planting right through to harvest.

Because growing your own food doesn’t have to be complicated. Start with what you have, plant something, learn as you go—and enjoy the magic of digging up dinner!

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