Growing potatoes using the Hilling method often produces the largest crops of potatoes. It is more space intensive but …
Potatoes
The 5 Best Crops for Self Sufficient Gardeners
Let's face it, some crops are better than others to grow when you are focusing on providing your own food. Here's my …
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 …
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. This …
Early Potatoes
Each year we try to get a small plot of potatoes in the ground around St. Patrick’s day. For Utah this is really …
And then there were none!
Tuesday night of this week we ate the last of our garden potatoes! It is hard to believe we ate all 170 pounds. I was …
Preparing and storing Potatoes
Once our potatoes are out of the ground we like to take them inside our garage and lay them out on our makeshift table …
Digging Main Crop Potatoes
Any one that is really serious about being self reliant has to include potatoes in their garden. I have read authors …
Harvest Monday 9-26-11
It was another busy harvest week here at Stoney Acres. This week will actually be the biggest total harvest week of the …
Early Potatoes
We love potatoes here at Stoney Acres. Especially new red potatoes!!! Every year we risk frost and muddy ground in …
