If you’ve only tasted store-bought potatoes, it’s time to experience the remarkable flavor and convenience of homegrown spuds by learning how to plant seed potatoes. The key is to start with certified ...

Learning how to prepare potatoes for planting is easy to maximize your potato harvest. It isn’t hard, but you don’t want to ...

Why do potatoes sprout? Learn one of the best ways to store potatoes and how to provide the ideal conditions for long-term potato storage. Under certain conditions, potatoes grow shoots (sprouts). You ...

As Burns Night approaches, many will be preparing the traditional feast of haggis, accompanied by the essential ‘neeps and ...

Aroostook County has long been referred to as Maine’s Potato Empire. Because of the relatively short season in the County and its rich, fertile soil, potatoes became the dominant crop as ...

Jim Gerritsen and family have been growing seed potatoes for 37 years at Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine. Gerritsen, a potato farmer whom many consider the No. 1 organic potato expert in North ...

For nearly three decades Jim Gerritsen quietly farmed organic seed potatoes in Aroostook County. These days he is in the international spotlight as the spokesman for the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit ...

Potatoes are notoriously easy to grow, but you don't need a huge backyard plot to grow your own. All you really need are some seed potatoes, some potting soil, and a large burlap or sturdy plastic ...

It is still early to sow seed for summer gardens but it is potato-planting time. The potato is an interesting vegetable. The potato, tomato, pepper, tomatillo and eggplant are all members of the ...