Potatoes are a versatile and popular vegetable that can be grown in home gardens. Plant certified seed potatoes in spring and harvest new potatoes after flowering or wait for larger tubers after the ...

Many years ago, when I was just starting out in my professional career as a horticulturist, while on my rounds I visited an old farmer. As we talked about growing different crops, he mentioned that ...

Whether you bake them, fry them, mash them or boil them, potatoes are a staple in many diets, behind rice and wheat among the world's top agricultural food crops but ranking as the top vegetable crop ...

Planting potatoes in the fall gives you a second harvest and fresher food as the weather cools. Fall planting is most effective in mild winter regions, where short-season varieties mature before frost ...

Time lapse of growing eyes of potatoes into harvestable tubers over 90 days. The eye was cut off of a store-bought russet potato that stayed forgotten in its storage for a while. It was then planted ...

Two gloved hands holding freshly dug potatoes in garden - Emma Boiko/Shutterstock Considered relatively easy to grow, potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) still require the right amount of water, nutrients, ...

Did you get your potatoes planted on Good Friday? I didn’t either. Planting while there’s snow on the ground seems wrong. And chiseling frozen soil seems imprudent. Ever since I was a little boy, I ...