If you had to limit your diet to a single food, potatoes wouldn’t be a bad choice. Baked, boiled, chipped, fried, mashed, roasted or scalloped — the lowly potato can taste completely and deliciously different depending on how it’s prepared. A selection of potoatoes harvested from Potato Grow Bags. Good Varieties for Baking Butte Caribé Carola Elba Red Cloud Rose Gold Swedish Peanut Yukon Gold If you had to limit your diet to a single…

If you’re shopping for seed potatoes, it helps to know how you like to eat them: baked, boiled, fried, hashed or mashed? Plant several varieties so you can try different cooking techniques. Elba Potatoes are considered an all-purpose potato. They are creamy when baked yet hold their texture when boiled. If you’re shopping for seed potatoes, it helps to know how you like to eat them. Plant several varieties so you can try diffe…

wing, it sends its roots down into the soil. The sweet potato tubers form on those roots so there’s no need to hill up the plants. With this in mind, I assembled four Mini-Grow Beds; raised beds that measure 18″ wide x 3 ft. long x 10″ deep. I stacked two of the beds on top of each other so I would have one bed that’s 20″ high and two beds with 10″ high sides. Three plants went into each raised bed. I am curious to see if having extr…