Potatoes Archives - Our Stoney Acres https://ourstoneyacres.com/category/vegetable-garden-plants/vegetables/potatoes Organic Vegetable Gardening Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:32:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.12 https://ourstoneyacres.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cropped-StoneyAcreslogo-1-32x32.jpg Potatoes Archives - Our Stoney Acres https://ourstoneyacres.com/category/vegetable-garden-plants/vegetables/potatoes 32 32 71130871 Growing potatoes using the Hilling Method https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-potatoes-using-the-hilling-method-2 https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-potatoes-using-the-hilling-method-2#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:06:31 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=6565 Growing potatoes using the Hilling method often produces the largest crops of potatoes.  It is more space intensive but produces a large crop of big, healthy “taters”. Homegrown potatoes are the best!! Why?  There are several reasons you should be growing potatoes in your garden: First, like most veggies, the homegrown version of potatoes just …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-potatoes-using-the-hilling-method-2/feed 24 6565 Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting https://ourstoneyacres.com/cutting-seed-potatoes-planting https://ourstoneyacres.com/cutting-seed-potatoes-planting#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:00:49 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=9328 Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting is a common planting practice that will save seeds and produce more plants in your garden. As the weather starts to warm a bit in the spring it’s time to plant your seed potatoes.  No matter what garden zone you live in, you usually start planting potatoes without any frost …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/cutting-seed-potatoes-planting/feed 19 9328 Learning how to grow Early Potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-guide-early-potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-guide-early-potatoes#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:00:22 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=3840 A simple cold frame is all you need to to have early potatoes in the spring. You can plant early potatoes in mid-March and they will be ready in June. We are big “tater” eaters.  Mashed, fried, boiled or baked; no matter how we cook’em we love potatoes!! But . . . Potatoes are on …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/growing-guide-early-potatoes/feed 15 3840 Letting Volunteer Potatoes Grow in your Garden https://ourstoneyacres.com/letting-volunteer-potatoes-grow-in-your-garden https://ourstoneyacres.com/letting-volunteer-potatoes-grow-in-your-garden#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2018 02:46:48 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=9815 If you let most Volunteer plants grow in your garden you don’t know what you will get. But it’s different with volunteer potatoes! Let me start this post off by saying I HATE volunteer plants in my garden. A Volunteer plant is one that comes up on its own either from the roots or fallen …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/letting-volunteer-potatoes-grow-in-your-garden/feed 1 9815 When to Harvest Potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/when-to-harvest-potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/when-to-harvest-potatoes#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:25:35 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=9030 Knowing when to harvest potatoes from your backyard garden can be a bit tricky. This post will help you know when to harvest potatoes for a great crop of nice-sized spuds! Every year I get questions posted about when to harvest potatoes. New gardeners always panic when the tops of their potato plants suddenly start …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/when-to-harvest-potatoes/feed 1 9030 How to avoid growing funny shaped potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/funny-shaped-potatoes https://ourstoneyacres.com/funny-shaped-potatoes#comments Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:12:12 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=8840 Why did you grow so many funny-shaped potatoes? You see the pictures floating around the internet all the time. Potatoes that look like feet! Or snowmen or aliens. We all get a good laugh when we pull them out of our garden, but have you ever wondered what causes funny-shaped potatoes?   The short answer …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/funny-shaped-potatoes/feed 3 8840 Tips for Storing Potatoes all Winter Long https://ourstoneyacres.com/storing-potatoes-to-use-all-winter-long https://ourstoneyacres.com/storing-potatoes-to-use-all-winter-long#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2016 23:02:17 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=8143 Storing potatoes properly is an important part of our gardening. We grow a lot of potatoes (some years over 250 pounds) so it is important that we keep those potatoes lasting as long as possible in our winter storage. I’m going to cover a few of the basics of potato storage first and then we …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/storing-potatoes-to-use-all-winter-long/feed 10 8143 Curing potatoes before winter storage https://ourstoneyacres.com/curing-potatoes-winter-storage https://ourstoneyacres.com/curing-potatoes-winter-storage#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:41:55 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=8140 Curing potatoes before winter storage is an important process that will help assure longer storing times for your potato crop. Potatoes are a super important garden crop around our place. They provide us with a fresh vegetable source for a big part of the winter months. We store our potatoes for the winter in a …

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]]> https://ourstoneyacres.com/curing-potatoes-winter-storage/feed 21 8140 Building and Using a Window Well Root Cellar https://ourstoneyacres.com/window-well-root-cellar https://ourstoneyacres.com/window-well-root-cellar#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:56:39 +0000 https://ourstoneyacres.com/?p=7654 A Window Well Root Cellar is turning out to be a pretty effective way to store out potatoes over the winter. Why did I decide to use a window well root cellar? In the fall we always have a lot of fresh produce from the garden that needs to be stored in a nice cool …

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