Explore the world of crunchy roots and bulbs for a bountiful underground harvest. This category covers everything from planting to care.
When it comes to growing potatoes, understanding the difference between seed potatoes and regular potatoes can be a bit confusing. But, it’s important to understand their differences to have a successful tuber harvest this season. The main difference between seed potatoes and regular potatoes is that regular potatoes are treated with a sprout inhibitor to…
Perennial onions make a beautiful addition to any vegetable garden. Not only are they easy to prepare, but once they get going you can harvest them at any size, at any time of year. While most onions are known as annual vegetables, grown from bulb sets in spring or late fall, nearly all types of…
There are dozens of readily available cultivars of garlic, but few of us stop to consider the one most basic factor when deciding what garlic to grow: the difference between hardneck and softneck garlic. It’s not just that the bulbs of hardneck and softneck garlic form differently, they taste different, and perform better or worse…
There’s nothing worse than going to gather potatoes from storage only to find that most of them have rotted! Potatoes are supposed to have a pretty long shelf life so how could seemingly healthy potatoes all have gone bad in storage? The reason potatoes start to rot in storage is that diseases enter potatoes through…
If you’re an adventurous gardener and you find yourself constantly looking for new vegetables to try, then consider making black radishes your next experiment! This guide will tell you everything you need to know about black radishes including how to grow them, how to harvest them, and even how to prepare them. These unique radishes…
Planning your carrot yield should be simple. One seed equals one carrot. Easy! Right? Well, it depends on a few factors, and the most significant of all is choosing the right carrot variety to ensure reliable yields. I’m going to take some time here, because planning carrot yields can be much more complicated than you…