Potato
Patata / Papa · Pomme de terre
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- upright
- Roots
- shallow
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- cool season
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
- Feeds
- medium feeder
Jobs in the bed
A plain neighbour: no special job.
Rotation
Do not return Solanaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✓ Good neighbours
✗ Keep apart
- ✗ TomatoShares late blight with tomato (same family)
- ✗ Asparagusdigging up potatoes damages its crowns
⚠ Use caution
- ⚠ Eggplant / auberginedon't cluster nightshades (shared blight & Colorado potato beetle)
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ Marigold (Tagetes)Grown densely for a season, French-marigold roots suppress root-knot nematodes; in greenhouses its scent keeps whiteflies off tomatoes Also deters beneficial insects; the "vs potato beetle" claim is unproven
- ✿ Coriander / cilantroUmbel flowers attract ladybugs, hoverflies, lacewings & wasps that prey on aphids & potato beetle Bolts in heat (fine — the flowers help)