How do you plant potatoes in a grow bag? While it may seem impractical to plant such a cheap vegetable, the flavor of homegrown potatoes can’t be beat. Homegrown produce comes in more varieties than ...

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 ...

Typically, I plant potatoes in the ground. This spring, however, I tried the idea of container-planting potatoes in corrugated cardboard boxes. (See From the Ground Up, March 30, 2025.) This turned ...

The Irish potatoes that I grew in raised beds were healthy and stored well, but building a raised bed can be costly and requires hard work. I wanted an alternative that was easy to build, inexpensive, ...

You don’t need your own private Idaho to grow potatoes. Greg Lutovsky, who has been growing potatoes as a business since 1993, says you can grow 100 pounds of potatoes in 4 square feet. All it takes ...

Time lapse of growing eyes of potatoes into harvestable tubers over 90 days. The eye was cut off of a store-bought russet ...

Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...

Planting potatoes in the fall can extend your growing season. Planting potatoes in the fall gives you a second harvest and fresher food as the weather cools. Fall planting is most effective in mild ...

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 ...