This is a unique harvest and "how to" of brake light potatoes grown in a raised bed garden. We check out the harvest and go through several tips and tricks on how I grow potatoes and sometimes how I ...

Sweet potatoes are a great substitute for white potatoes in your diet. Many people can't, or shouldn't, eat white potatoes. White potatoes contain small amounts of solanine, a naturally occurring ...

Potatoes are one of the most versatile and popular vegetables eaten throughout the world. A crop failure of this vegetable caused by a pathogen in just one country in the mid-1800s was responsible for ...

One of my readers asked me recently when a person should dig up her sweet potato vines and harvest her sweet tubers. Despite its name sweet potato is not a true potato. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) ...

Potatoes are one of the most versatile and popular vegetables eaten throughout the world. A crop failure of this vegetable caused by a pathogen in just one country in the mid-1800s was responsible for ...

What: Garden columnist Susan Mulvihill will share the benefits of gardening in raised beds, the best materials to use, and the specifics on growing vegetables in them. When: 9 a.m. to noon March 16 ...

My dad was a real aficionado at growing sweet potatoes. But then again, he had a thumb so green he could poke a broomstick in the soil and within a few days it would sprout. It wasn’t until just a few ...

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 ...