Yet how do you know when potatoes are ready to harvest, and how do you avoid harvesting them too early?The key is to look for a few telltale signs that potatoes are ready for harvest, plant experts ...

Potatoes typically sprout in 10 to 14 days, and the new potatoes will form above the planted seed potato. Keep the soil loose and pulled up around the main stem of each plant.

Once potato plants have gotten to be 6-12 inches tall, gardeners will want to mound dirt around their stems so that only 2-4 inches of the plant is above dirt.

It can be hard to keep track of potatoes' development since they're underground. Soil health is the main thing that can ruin ...

If your seed potatoes are small, you can plant them whole. Cut larger seed potatoes into pieces weighing 1-1/2 to 2 ounces. Make sure each piece has at least one eye.

HALSTAD, Minn. — Valley Tissue Culture, Inc. is a Red River Valley business that has grown from an experimental concept in the 1980s into a multi-generational potato seed company today. Today ...

Oct. 19—The Fleming brothers, Pat and Neal, stand in front of their final crop of seed potatoes, heaped into a knobby mountain at one of their cellars near Pablo. Fans work nonstop to control ...

Potato acreage is down by about 9% in Washington and unchanged from year-earlier totals in Idaho, Oregon and California, ...

RDO's Twin Rivers Seed Farm manager Jake Jacobson talks about the cover crops that go on fields used for planting potatoes on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, near Staples, Minnesota. Michael Johnson / Agweek ...

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Seed Potato Certification Program finalized a public-private partnership this January. The Wisconsin Potato Coalition will take over management of the ...