It is finally time to harvest our sweet potatoes. We planted ours in the summer, as sweet potatoes are one of the few plants that can be planted and will thrive during the peak of our summer heat.

Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and foliage ...

It’s time to dig up your potatoes! Or so you think. There’s a fine line when it comes to completing your potato harvest, according to garden columnist Jessica Damiano. The expert wrote in an ...

Since potatoes grow underground, it can be hard to tell when they're ready to harvest. Watch their foliage. Once the leaves turn brown and die, wait a few weeks for the largest, best potatoes. Make ...

Discover the secrets to growing potatoes successfully in a woodchip mulch raised garden bed! In this video, we guide you ...

Knowing when to harvest vegetables is equally as important as knowing how to grow them. Some veggies do best when picked immature, others need to be fully ripe. (Julia Kumari Drapkin) People work hard ...

Growing sweet potatoes indoors is best done from slips, which are the rooted sprouts that grow from mature sweet potatoes.

Question: Last year, I grew potatoes for the first time. They got all soft and wrinkly and spotty by December. Is there some way to help them last longer? I am growing them again this year. Answer: ...

With meteorologists predicting a hard freeze in southeast Idaho for Wednesday, farmers rushed to harvest all their potatoes before the surprise cold snap ruined them.One farmer in Hamer, Idaho, about ...

You can grow sweet potatoes year-round indoors or, in warm areas, outdoors. First, though, you need to sprout the tubers so ...