Potato
Diseases and pests
Bordeaux mixture against mildew: why not use it in the vegetable garden?
If you've ever done a bit of gardening, you may have heard of Bordeaux mixture. This mixture of water, lime and copper sulphate is a fungicide used to prevent certain diseases that can infect plants in your garden. However, although...
6 September 2025
Potato
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Tuber vegetables
- Botanical Family : Solanaceae
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Full Sun
- Frost Hardiness : Slightly Frost Sensitive
- Cultivation Difficulty : Medium
- Adult Height : 60 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
- Sowing Depth : 10 cm
- Plant Spacing : 25 cm
- Row Spacing : 60 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Moderate
- Water Requirements : Moderate
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Neutral
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : High
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Insect-pollinated
- Propagation : Division