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| National Gardening |
Harvesting Potatoes After all your work of planting and caring for your potato plants, here's how to get the most from your harvest.   |
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Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost. |
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Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes. |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
| National Gardening |
Harvesting Winter Squash and Pumpkins When and how to bring the crop in from the garden... |
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Seed Potatoes Small seed potatoes can be planted whole, but larger ones should first be cut into pieces with at least one eye or recessed dormant bud. |
Seasoned Cooking
August 2007
Jim Kennard |
Eat Garden-fresh for 4-6 Months! With a little time, and careful canning, drying, and freezing, you can enjoy the fresh fruits (and vegetables) of your labors all winter long. |
Seasoned Cooking
November 2005
J. Sinclair |
Sweet Potatoes Those that think that sweet potatoes are to be saved for a sweet casserole served on Thanksgiving and not otherwise are really missing out!... Recipe: Turkey and Sweet Potato Salad... |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Ornamental Sweet Potatoes Grow sweet potatoes for their leaves... |
Science News
December 22, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Food for Thought: It's Spud Time The United Nations wants more people to appreciate the potato's potential to fight world hunger. |
| Garden Gate |
More Unusual Potatoes There are all kinds of unusual, gourmet potatoes becoming available these days. Exotic varieties that could only be obtained by the fanciest restaurants are now showing up in the local food stores right next to their more common cousins. And you can grow these spuds in your home garden. |
| National Gardening |
Harvesting Corn Harvesting corn is a matter of picking the ears at peak flavor. Here's how to know when to harvest. |
National Gardening
Eliot Tozer |
A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
| National Gardening |
Amazing Annual Vines If you've been growing common vines, like morning glory and sweet peas, consider trying something new this year. Here are a few suggestions. |
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Planting Grapes The fall before you plant, mark the location for your vines. Get rid of all weeds, especially perennial ones, as your vines can easily survive 30 years or more in the same location. |
Seasoned Cooking
October 2005
Philip R. Gantt |
Polynesian Chicken A sweet little chicken dish made with pineapple and sweet potatoes. |
| National Gardening |
Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices? |
National Gardening
Ben Watson |
Veteran Vegetables While you're planting some of the newest vegetables, don't forget to leave some room for these classics. |
| National Gardening |
Food Gardening 101 It's a great treat to go shopping in your own garden to harvest fresh food. A small, well-tended garden can be just as productive as a large one that is ignored, so it is a good idea to start small and expand it as you need more space. |
Seasoned Cooking
July 2006
Philip R. Gantt |
French Fries Sure, you can buy them at Mickey D's or some other fast food place, but homemade fries are by far superior when prepared properly. |
| National Gardening |
Colorado Potato Beetle If you see in your garden a small yellow beetle with black stripes over its wings and black spots just behind its head, say hello to the Colorado potato beetle. Potatoes are its first love, but this beetle will eagerly consume leaves of potato relatives eggplant, ground cherry, peppers, tomato, and tomatillo. |
Science News
June 19, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Coming Soon--Spud Lite Florida farmers have begun referring to the new spud as a "low-carb" cultivar. It's poised to hit groceries next January, just in time to take advantage of the low-carbohydrate-diet craze. |
Seasoned Cooking
October 2007
Karen Ciancio |
Comfort Food Trends What is comfort food? Generally it's the food we have good memories about, the food we think of when we hear the word homemade, and that reminds us of simpler times. Here are some popular comfort food choices. |
This Old House
Jerry Pavia |
Versatile Vines These fast-growing plants could be your best landscape investment this summer. |
National Gardening
Veronica Lorson Fowler |
Amazing Annual Vines These speedy climbers offer old-fashioned charm and quick landscape solutions |
Seasoned Cooking
January 2005
Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Ravishing Roasting Here's how you can put a flavorful meal on the table and warm yourself on the inside and the outside... Simple Roasted Potatoes... Honey-Mustard Pork Tenderloin... |
Seasoned Cooking
January 2011
Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Rush Hour This fun Twisted Shepard's Pie recipe puts a casserole dish filled with flavor on your table in less than an hour. |
Chemistry World
December 19, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Court overturns approval to grow GM potato in Europe The second highest court in the EU has ruled that BASF's genetically modified potato Amflora cannot be planted in Europe. |
Geotimes
August 2004
Megan Sever |
Soils Influenced Hawaiian Chiefdoms After fleshing out the basics of Hawaii's agricultural history, scientists now believe the reason certain crops were only cultivated in select areas was due to the diversity in the soils, which may also have led to the rise of powerful chiefdoms. |
Food Processing
August 2008 |
Getting the highest nutritional bang for your buck Potato preparation affects both taste and nutritional content |
Seasoned Cooking
November 2010
Philip R. Gantt |
Honey Turkey In the spirit of the Thanksgiving Holiday, this month I am presenting a new and unique recipe for cooking turkey. |
Health
August 25, 2008
Jenny Hadfield |
Best Foods for Runners A list of foods high in vitamins and nutrients |
National Gardening
Kate Jerome |
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes Potatoes are a staple in winter in my home. Adding a dash of rosemary and roasting the potatoes creates an elegant meal from this common vegetable. |
