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Theres no reason that they shouldnt. Keep an eye out for green fly/aphids etc. I was looking at mine this morning and I had a few on the new shoots. I flick them off then give them a squirt of rose clear.

No need to intertwine, clip the laurel to the height of where you want your arch to start and then let it remain unclipped to form the arch then clip into shape .it will take a few years,It is better to reduce laurel taking out peices rather than severe clipping as the leaves look awful if they are in halves!!

Better to plant the tubers a spade depths deep than just under the surface. Then as the shoots emerge from the soil cover all but the top two leaves with soil until all danger of frost has passed. 3 fold advantage, no frost damage, no green potatoes and more roots, thus more potatoes.

Plant them with the shoots just below the soil surface c. 18 inches apart. The reason for the spacing distance is that you need to be able to draw surrounding soil up to the foliage as it grows, to ensure that the developing potatoes are always covered. Exposure of the potatoes to sun and light would turn them green and poisonous. An alternative is to heap on soil/compost from another source, as you go along. Best of luck (but I'm no spud expert).