Tubers

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…

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…

So you decided to plant potatoes this year! You’re excited and confident until you go to pull your seed potatoes out of storage and…they’re shriveled. Does that mean they’ve all gone bad? Will squishy, wrinkled potatoes actually produce healthy potato plants? Yes, you can plant shriveled potatoes. Even though shriveled seed potatoes don’t look appetizing,…

I remember those early spring days when my family would take my brother and me out in the fields to help them plant potatoes as far as the eye could see. We packed big bags of seed potatoes and there was a lot of digging involved – trenching and hilling up. Us kids were responsible…

Growing big potatoes has become much harder in recent years as erratic shorter growing seasons caused by climate change has massively impacted their growing windows, but freak events like the recent giant potato news in New Zealand have given gardeners reason to be hopeful. If you’re wondering why your homegrown potatoes are smaller than you…

The humble potato is an essential part of our western diets, and it’s quickly replacing grain as a major crop worldwide. And for good reason – potatoes grow faster and do well in worse conditions than grain, not to mention that they’re far more nutritious (think half an adult’s daily dose of vitamin C for…