Potatoes five ways

Don’t let anybody say growing your own spuds isn’t worth it: one mouthful of sweet, buttery new potatoes, cooked minutes after you dug them up, tells you otherwise.

Grow your own and you’ll discover more variety than you knew existed, with dozens of richly flavoured, brightly coloured potatoes to choose from. Homegrown spuds are also chemical free and count food miles in metres.

Potato plants are big beasts, though, and as gardens shrink and awareness grows about how digging damages soil, gardeners are trying new ways to grow them. We put four techniques to the test to see if