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.
Benefits
- Replenishes nutrients to encourage healthy growth.
- Also suitable for carrots, parsnip, and other root vegetable crops.
- N-P-K 3-8-6 + sulphur, calcium, magnesium & trace elements.
Directions for use
When planting:
- When planting apply 300g (approx. 1 cup) per square metre of garden.
- Mix thoroughly into the soil and plant as per label instructions.
- Water in well after application.
Established plants:
- Apply 30-40g (approx. 2 tablespoons) per square metre of garden, to the mounds at the base of the plants.
- Water in well after application, taking care to wash any product off the plant foliage.
Not recommended for use in pots and containers.
Use in your garden beds every three to four weeks during key growth periods for a bumper crop of homegrown potatoes.
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I use this every year and I get quite a good batch of potato's . Recommend using
Brent M
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.
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.
Planting Calendar
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Follow these simple potato planting steps with Candy @nzgardener and you’ll have fresh spuds on the menu before you know it!
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.
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.
Heirloom Vegetables and Crops
After standing the test of time, a number of well flavoured good old fashioned vegetables are well worth hunting down and growing at home. Oldies but goodies, if you fancy something different in the edible garden this season, why not try a few of these heirloom and old fashioned crops that are making a comeback.
