I don’t know what’s happening with alliums in Uzbekistan, but they’re growing some fantastic garlic.There’s nothing wrong with a lovely, mild bulb, but sometimes you want something sweet,
06.06.2023 - 16:11 / gardenerspath.com / Matt Suwak
The Ultimate Potato Growing Guide Solanum tuberosumWhen I told a friend I was writing an article about how to grow potatoes he said, “What’s to tell? You throw ‘em in a bucket, pile up the soil while they grow, and wait until you have spuds.”
I objected at first at his suggestion, but then I realized that he’s right.
Potatoes are about as easy to grow as a radish, so if you’ve got the patience of King Kong at a banana factory you can stop reading this article now and take that bit of advice with you.
Enjoy your harvest and let me know it is!
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But there is so much more to growing potatoes that you can learn.
While the impatient spud grower will plop some plants into a pot and hope for the best, the individual who reads this feature from start to finish will be prepared for whatever might come.
Spend some time learning about these vegetables and you’ll call yourself the Potato Expert in no time.
Po-tay-tow, Po-taw-towI taught a new employee about how to grow spuds and her response was, “Why would anybody go through this effort if you could just buy them at the grocery store?”
Good question, but she’s clearly never tasted a spud straight from the ground. Like everything else that’s grown from home a fresh and homegrown spuds is as close to heaven as you’re going to get in this lifetime.
And like most everything else in life, a good understanding of where something comes from adds to its appreciation.
A World-Wide Food StapleLike the unrelated sweet potato our “plain Jane” spud was domesticated in South America, more specifically in Peru and Bolivia. That history extends as far back as 8000 BC, making these tuberous
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