Discover new ways to maximize your garden space in Building Projects for Backyard Farmers and Home Gardeners (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2012) by Chris Gleason. Plans for trellises, raised beds and ...

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, ...

In this video, I show you how to grow sweet potato in containers or pots. Growing sweet potato in containers is particularly ...

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 ...

Discover how to grow potatoes both in the ground and in a pot on the patio. Whether you love new potatoes, roast potatoes or jacket potatoes, we've grown and tasted lots of different varieties so we ...

Q: Can you provide some advice on how to grow potatoes? I planted some this spring but they are already looking very sad and have not flowered yet. A. Potatoes can be a bit tricky here in North State ...

Potatoes are an easy crop to grow in your garden. They require very little extra attention, except for regular watering and hilling up the soil to get a bigger harvest. If you've never grown these ...

Growing sweet potatoes in containers lets you start earlier, manage space, and protect plants from frost. Choose compact, non-vining varieties like Bunch Porto Rico or Vardaman for easier container ...

Nothing beats the taste of freshly dug potatoes and growing your own couldn’t be easier. Plan ahead and you could be eating freshly dug spuds throughout the summer and early autumn and if you’re ...