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 ...

Learning how to prepare potatoes for planting is easy to maximize your potato harvest. It isn’t hard, but you don’t want to ...

Because the South has such a long growing season, many garden vegetables are planted twice a year. Cool-season crops like carrots, cabbage, lettuce, radishes, and broccoli can be sown in both spring ...

Experienced gardeners plant two crops of potatoes, in late March and again after the final frost. Potato plants can survive frost if they get a little protection, so it’s time to get ready for that ...

Gardeners in the upper Midwest love to grow and eat potatoes. The average North Dakotan eats over 100 pounds of spuds per year, making it our favorite vegetable. The planting season for potatoes is ...

If you have small children or grandchildren, you should grow potatoes. Kids get it. They’ve been eating French fries and tater tots all their lives. And digging potatoes is multi-generational fun.

Growing potatoes is a rewarding gardening endeavor that even beginner gardeners can successfully undertake. But if you missed planting these tubers in spring, there's still time to enjoy them before ...

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 ...