Potatoes are among the simplest vegetables to grow, but a step often forgotten or neglected is earthing them up. It is as simple as regularly drawing soil, straw, or other materials around the plants ...

Those white potatoes that were planted on the Ides of March have a lot of activity going on under the ground right now. While the above ground green shoots put out new leaves and stems the underground ...

YouTube For many home gardeners, potatoes are treated like a crop that demands constant mounding and lots of trial and error. But one expert says his preferred method is much simpler: plant them ...

Potatoes are grown from seed potatoes. They should have several “eyes” that contain vegetative buds. Do not try to grow potatoes purchased from the grocery store because they are treated to prevent ...

Potatoes can be prepared in a myriad of delicious ways: mashed, roasted with garlic, baked with chives and sour cream, scalloped with cream and herbs, and many other ways, including one of my ...

Skip the produce section and start growing potatoes in your own backyard. All you need is a sunny space to grow them, a steady supply of water, and seed potatoes (the sprouted portion of a potato that ...