Can We Become Self-Sufficient in Potatoes?

It’s mid February and that means it’s time to plant some potatoes. We’ve grown a number of varieties of potatoes here in Portugal over the last few years – mostly successfully but with a few hiccups along the way. But this year we’re attempting to grow enough to last us for a whole year.

Some say there’s no point in growing potatoes because they’re so cheap to buy from the store. But we think that nothing beats the experience of cooking up a storm with home grown veggies. And growing our own gives us a chance to choose the varieties that we want to eat the most.

Join us down in the veg garden for an afternoon of planting our first batch of potatoes for the year. Don’t forget to like and subscribe and tune in for future episodes of our potato growing series and much more renovation, landscaping, growing, gardening, cooking, preserving and travel videos.

Here’s a link to the garden planning software we’re trying out this year: Grow Veg