YouTube: Harvest Potatoes from Less Space – Part 2
In Part 1 of Grow Potatoes from Less Space, we showed you how to plant potatoes in a vertical garden. This video is all about harvesting!
Why do we hill up potatoes?
YouTube: Why Do We Hill Up Potatoes?
You've probably heard that you're supposed to hill up potatoes, but do you know why? In our latest video, Christy explains the two reasons why it's a good idea.
YouTube: How To Harvest Potatoes In Raised Beds
Our latest YouTube video shows you how to harvest potatoes in raised beds. It also walks you through the process of curing them for storage, so they'll last longer.
Grow potatoes in fall (in warm-winter climates) and spring everywhere.
YouTube: How to Plant Potatoes In Raised Beds for a Big Harvest
Our latest YouTube video helps you plant potatoes in raised beds for a big harvest. If you haven't grown potatoes before, put it on your list of fun things to do.
YouTube: Potatoes Vs. Sweet Potatoes
I often find myself explaining the difference between potatoes vs. sweet potatoes: their growth habit, when they grow, how to harvest them. It seemed only fitting to do a video about it.
This potatoes has at least 1 eye that is long enough to plant.
Sprouting Seed Potatoes
White potatoes get a bum wrap, but they are the most delicious tuber to grow in your own backyard. Not only that, they are easy and fun to grow, especially if you have children. From sprouting your own seed potatoes to digging for buried treasure, growing potatoes provides wonder and joy for kids and adults alike. First things first - sprouting seed potatoes Potatoes grow from potatoes, so it's easy to start your own. You may even have skanky potatoes…
All-blue, russet and red potatoes are jewels from the garden.
The Martian and His Potatoes…and Mistakes
Everyone, I mean everyone told me, "You must see The Martian. He grows potatoes on Mars." So I went. It was well done, except for a couple things: 1) No one could possibly stay that positive in those circumstances, and 2) His potato-growing experiment most assuredly would have failed. Walking out of the theater, my husband asked how accurate the potato farming was. After counting on my fingers the errors made, his first words were, "They should've asked you." Let's…
YouTube: Planting Potatoes in Pots
Our latest YouTube video is live, and it's all about planting potatoes in pots. Here in Southern California we can plant potatoes in fall or spring. For those in cooler climates, you may have to wait until spring, but here's something to keep you learning through the winter: https://youtu.be/AbsZYZAx46o We have plenty of blog posts on how to grow and harvest potatoes no matter where you live. Check out these links for details about planting potatoes, harvesting and growing in…
When 1+1=10: Harvesting Potatoes
Garden math breaks the rules. It's one of the only places where things multiply without the need for a calculator, or the stress of bubble tests or sweaty palms. Possibly the best example of garden
math is the potato. Plant one, get many.
Spring is a great time to plant potatoes, and lucky for us, spring is coming soon. In warmer climates, you can also plant potatoes in the fall. That's what we did last October with a couple of
scary potatoes left in the pantry too long. Yesterday we ...
The Potato Experiment
I'll admit it, I've never grown potatoes in the fall. It's always been a spring thing for me. When some scary looking potatoes greeted me in the pantry the other day, however, that all changed. Our
Test Garden is chock-full of fall crops already, so there's no room for potatoes, but where there's a will, there's a way. The Way of the Pot.
(Cue Zen Buddhist musical interlude)
Potatoes are well-known for being suitable for growing in containers. They can be grown in trash cans, burlap sacks, bags of ...