Growing potatoes using the Hilling method often produces the largest crops of potatoes. It is more space intensive but …
Potatoes
Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting
Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting is a common planting practice that will save seeds and produce more plants in your …
Learning how to grow Early Potatoes
A simple cold frame is all you need to to have early potatoes in the spring. You can plant early potatoes in mid-March …
Letting Volunteer Potatoes Grow in your Garden
If you let most Volunteer plants grow in your garden you don't know what you will get. But it's different with volunteer …
When to Harvest Potatoes
Knowing when to harvest potatoes from your backyard garden can be a bit tricky. This post will help you know when to …
How to avoid growing funny shaped potatoes
Why did you grow so many funny shaped potatoes? You see the pictures floating around the internet all the time. Potatoes …
Tips for Storing Potatoes all Winter Long
Storing potatoes properly is an important part of our gardening. We grow a lot of potatoes (some years over 250 pounds) …
Curing potatoes before winter storage
Curing potatoes before winter storage is an important process that will help assure longer storing times for your potato …
Building and Using a Window Well Root Cellar
A Window Well Root Cellar is turning out to be a pretty effective way to store out potatoes over the winter. Why did I …
