Potato Growing Guide
The humble potato is a staple on many dinner tables around New Zealand. Roasted, boiled, mashed or in a salad – no matter how you serve yours, they will always taste better dug out of your own garden. Follow our potato growing guide to plant potatoes in garden beds or containers, and you'll be harvesting a bumper crop of homegrown potatoes this season.
Tui Potato Grow Bag
The humble potato is a staple on many dinner tables around New Zealand. Roasted, boiled, mashed or in a salad – no matter how you serve yours, they will always taste better dug out of your own garden.
Use the Tui Potato Grow Bag, a portable potato growing bag, to grow your own.
This bag holds approximately 1 x bag of Tui Vegetable Mix
Follow our step by step guide to growing potatoes in the Tui Potato Grow Bag.
Top Potato Tips
Potatoes are a firm Kiwi favourite and a treat on the table from summer through to autumn - consecutive planting means you can enjoy them for months on end. Sweet waxy and delicate, they were almost the best part of the Christmas banquet! Follow our top tips for a bumper crop of tasty homegrown spuds.
Picking your potato variety
You can't beat new potatoes freshly dug out of your own garden! Choose your perfect potato variety based on your harvesting and cooking preferences.
Tui Vegetable Mix
Whether your vege patch is bursting with salad greens for summer barbeques, or carrots and leeks for hearty winter soups, nothing beats the satisfaction of ‘growing your own'. Tui Vegetable Mix is a high quality natural-based planting mix containing the right blend of nutrients to provide your veges with the best possible start and sustained growth throughout the season.
Use in your garden beds, pots and containers, and you'll be harvesting a bumper crop of homegrown veges in no time. Follow our 3 step Vegetable Growing Guide >
This bag is recyclable through the soft plastics recycling scheme, it just needs to be clean and dry. Learn how to clean and dry your Tui growing media bags here.
Smashed potatoes
Leave the skins on your potatoes with this delicious recipe from Love Food Hate Waste. Smashing your potatoes instead of mashing them not only reduces food waste but means you'll be eating all the useful nutrients from the skin. Try this recipe for fluffy on the inside, crispy on the outside smashed potatoes.
Tui Potato Food
The humble potato is a Kiwi staple on many dinner tables. Roasted, boiled, mashed or in a salad, no matter how you serve yours, they will always taste better dug out of your own garden.
Tui Potato Food is specially formulated for home gardens. It contains all the necessary nutrients to give you high yielding, quality potatoes. High levels of phosphorus and potassium promote healthy tuber production and plant growth.
Use in your garden beds, and you'll be harvesting a bumper crop of tasty homegrown potatoes this season.
Grow Potatoes in the Tui Potato Grow Bag with Laura
Grow Potatoes in the Tui Potato Grow Bag with Laura
Potato Tower Gardening Hack
Got limited space? Creating a potato tower could be the perfect garden hack for you. They’re super simple to build and produce lots of tasty potatoes!