They then need plenty of water, sun and temperatures below 25 degrees centigrade, as higher temperatures will stop them growing as they usually go into stress mode!

I use one other ingredient to help ensure success – Super Strength Liquid Seaweed at a rate of 5ml per litre of water sprayed onto the crop every 14 days from just before flowering, the usual point in the growth cycle when tubers are beginning to form to when the canopy visually starts to turn yellow, indicating the ‘bulking’ phase is complete.

I try to spray the seaweed in the evening when the weather is either raining or rain is expected and spray the plant until the solution runs off the leaves.

Potatoes are very responsive to liquid seaweed and I notice a definite greening of the leaves in a couple of days, mainly in response to the iron the seaweed provides, this is good as it ensures good chlorophyll development and a healthy plant should produce lots of potatoes.

Seaweed also provides a whole range of trace elements, and plant hormones in tiny but necessary amounts.

But I don’t just stop at potatoes, foliar feeding of seaweed is given to most of the crops I grow.