Potatoes
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What is Cold Sweetening – How to Avoid Cold Sweetening of Potatoes
Americans eat a lot of potato chips and french fries – 1.5 billion chips combined and a staggering 29 pounds…
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Deformed potatoes with knots: why are potato tubers deformed?
If you’ve ever grown potatoes in your garden, chances are you’ve harvested some interesting potatoes. When potato tubers are deformed,…
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Potato Charcoal Rot: Learn more about charcoal rot in potato plants
Potato charcoal rot is undeniable. The disease also affects several other crops where it decimates the crop. Only under certain…
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Potato hollow heart: What to do in case of potato hollow heart disease
Growing potatoes is full of mystery and surprises, especially for the beginning gardener. Even when your potato crop comes out…
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White Potato Varieties – Growing potatoes that are white
In the United States, more than 200 varieties of potato are marketed with seven types of potatoes: red, red, white…
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Red Potato Varieties – Growing Red Skinned and Red Flesh Potatoes
Red-hulled potatoes are not only beautiful, but their bright colour also makes them very nutritious and these are not the…
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Storage of potatoes in the soil: use of potato pits for winter storage
A member of the acorn family, which includes other New World crops such as tomato, pepper and tobacco, the potato…
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Potato dry rot: What causes potato dry rot?
Horticulturists have to deal with an impressive number of absolutely repulsive plant diseases, but for the potato grower, few of…
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What are potato worms? Prevention and treatment of eel worms
Any experienced gardener will tell you that he loves a challenge. That’s probably because most gardeners face a number of…
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Tips for Storing Seed Potatoes for Next Year’s Planting
Potatoes are a staple crop and are commonly grown commercially. Today, commercial potato growers use USDA-certified seed potatoes for planting…
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