Potatoes are a rewarding crop that will give you a high yield as long as you provide them with the right growing conditions. Once planted, they need minimal tending until harvest time. Best of all, ...

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 ...

Gary: Today on your Lawn & Garden we’re talking about planting potatoes. How do you do it? John says it’s not too hard. We have a couple of tips for you right now. JOHN: Yes. It’s not hard at all just ...

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If you don’t have room in your garden plot to plant potatoes, they will grow well in large cloth grow bags or containers. (SUSAN MULVIHILL/FOR THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW) Buy this photo Potatoes are one of ...

As spring tomato, corn, cucumber, beans, melons and other crops finish over the next weeks and months, and the heat, humidity and bugs encourage gardeners to enter a summer AC hibernation, many of you ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...

This sweet potato is showing signs of surface rot. (Ontario Ministry of Agriculture) Q: Last fall when we harvested our sweet potatoes, we noticed dark patches on the surface of the skins. It didn't ...