potatoes

Like many plants, potatoes need sunlight for their growth. Not every farm or yard is blessed with full sunlight all year long. It depends on many factors like zone location, latitude, and surrounding trees.  Do potatoes need full sun or shaded sunlight to grow? What is the best condition to grow potatoes? Areas with direct…

When discussing potato seeds, the vocabulary can be confusing. There are “seed” potatoes, which aren’t seeds at all, and true potato seeds, which are the real seeds of the potato plant. Potatoes do have seeds but are rarely grown from seed, as almost everybody, farmers and gardeners alike, grow their potatoes from “seed potatoes”. Some…