Planting potatoes in the fall offers several benefits, including reduced pest pressure, cooler temperatures, and the ...

Do you want to grow your own vegetables, but have minimal garden space, poor or heavy clay soil, or limited financial resources? Do you manage or want to begin a school or community garden, but need ...

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 ...

Straw bale gardens are becoming popular with growers plagued with poor soil or limited garden space, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein. Straw bale gardening combines ...

Those white potatoes that were planted on the Ides of March have a lot of activity going on under the ground right now. While the above ground green shoots put out new leaves and stems the underground ...

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 ...

Although St. Patrick's Day is the traditional day to plant potatoes, Mid-Missouri weather usually does not cooperate. This year was no exception, at least not in my garden. There have not been too ...

Betsy and Bill plan a vegetable garden, aiming to grow beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and pumpkins. With guidance from their father, they prepare the soil and purchase seeds. They learn the importance of ...

Potatoes are cool weather plants from South America that bloom and then die when the temperatures get hot. They can tolerate frosts, but not hard freezes. Potatoes are planted from small potatoes or ...