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How to Grow Potatoes in a Trash Bag

WesternGardener, contributor | March 17th, 201215 comments

Potatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Even if you don’t have a large garden, you can grow potatoes in a 30-gallon trash bag.

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Winter Wait

cookinwithherbs, contributor | February 9th, 2012

For we northern gardeners, there is a waiting process this time every year. Here are a few things to do while we await the spring… and for you southerners… here’s just a dusting of winter white.

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Grow Some Spuds in Your Duds

WesternGardener, contributor | September 8th, 20112 comments

One California mom has found a unique way to get her kids to eat their vegetables.

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QUESTION: Excessive potato green

joe_massie, member | July 8th, 20112 comments

I have good results with potato. I plant early, use specialized potato fertilizer and hill at least once. I get a good harvest but the plants have excessively tall plants. Last year the plants were...

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QUESTION: Spinach & Irish Potatoes!

KimberlyAWood, member | July 19th, 2010

I live in Northern Virginia and wanted to know if I can plant spinach and Irish Potatoes now? Will i still get a good harvest? The first frost is usually around October 20th.

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Containing Potatoes

ChrisMcLaughlin, contributor | July 6th, 20107 comments

I fantasized about placing it strategically on my front lawn. My crops would never be prouder and the neighbors would drool with envy. One look at the price tag and I was over it.

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Homegrown / Homemade: Potatoes

DanielleGardenGirl, contributor | June 7th, 20103 comments

Choose the potato varieties you like to cook with, and get 'em in the ground. A gardener and a cook show you how in Episode 1 of this Homegrown/Homemade video series. Now playing: How to Hill Potatoes (Episode 2).

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Video: How to Grow Potatoes in Containers

VegetableGardener, editor | March 30th, 20108 comments

What's not to love about potatoes? They're tasty, require little maintenance to grow, and even produce pretty flowers. If you have the right container, you don't even need to plant them in the ground. Check out this video on growing potatoes in the most unlikely of places: a kitchen garbage can.

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Home-Grown Potatoes!

ChrisMcLaughlin, contributor | February 25th, 20104 comments

My fellow gardeners we are looking March square in the eye and I, for one, am getting itchy.

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Growing Potatoes

Ruth, Web producer | February 3rd, 2010

Potatoes in containers, potatoes in the ground, potatoes in the kitchen. Plant some this spring, for a bountiful harvest that will keep for months.

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This Spud's for You

WesternGardener, contributor | November 25th, 20091 comment

Potatoes are one of the easiest root crops for home gardeners to grow. Order your specialty seed potatoes now for delivery next spring.

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Extend Your Gardening Season Beyond Frost by Growing Produce that Keeps

Ruth, Web producer | June 26th, 20092 comments

If you grow winter squash, pumpkins, potatoes, garlic, and hot peppers, you effectively extend your gardening season well into the fall and winter.

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Control Colorado Potato Beetle with a Mix of Strategies

KitchenGardenerMag, archive | June 1st, 2009

The Colorado potato beetle has become resistant to a number of commercial pesticides. Fortunately, there are physical, horticultural, and biological controls to choose from. Most likely, a mix of strategies will be most effective.

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