Sowable growing guide
How to grow potatoes in Ireland
A practical planner companion for planting and tending potatoes in a measured garden bed.
At a glance
- Planting window
- March–May
- Indicative spacing
- 30 cm
- Planting depth
- 12 cm
- Planting material
- Potato seed potatoes
Planting calendar
For this planner’s potato fixture, the indicative outdoor planting window is March–May. Plan around soil that is warming, rather than a fixed calendar date.
Key steps
- Measure the bed. Use the planner’s 30 cm potato spacing to see how many seed potatoes the row can hold.
- Plant seed potatoes. Potatoes are grown from seed potatoes — tubers, not seed. They are planted, not sown, and are usually bought by weight.
- Earth up as shoots grow. Plant seed potatoes into warming soil and earth up the shoots as they grow.
Care and harvest
This guide is deliberately limited to the reviewed planner fixture. For full crop-care, blight, harvest and storage guidance, consult the linked source before acting.
Read the Royal Horticultural Society potato guidanceCommon questions
Are potatoes planted from seed?
Potatoes are grown from seed potatoes — tubers, not seed. They are planted, not sown, and are usually bought by weight.
What should I add to my plan?
Add a potato row to a measured bed; the planner uses the crop spacing to estimate planting stations and seed potatoes.
Plan your potato row
Place a measured row and check its estimated seed-potato requirement.