For beginner gardeners seeking a forgiving, high-yield crop, potatoes are an excellent starting point — especially since they ...

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 ...

Facts and tips on growing your own potatoes in a bag.

Plant sprouted potatoes to avoid waste and get a nice, unexpected harvest of fresh potatoes. It happens to all of us at some point: there, at the back of the cupboard, a few stray potatoes go wrinkly ...

The year I first bothered to chit my seed potatoes, I thought it was going to be one of those fussy Old Gardener rituals that didn’t actually change much. I was wrong. The un-chitted spuds in one bed ...

It’s almost that time, and by “that time” I mean time to start planting some of our cool-season vegetable crops. The idea of cool-season crops may be new to some of you, but in our area, we ...