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Curzio Caravati

300 Grow Bags Help Preserve Potato Diversity

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Curzio Caravati with some of the 300 Potato Grow Bags at the Kenosha Potato Project. As founder and curator of the Kenosha Potato Project Curzio Caravati has grown and catalogued more than 300 varieties of potatoes in his collection. Why? Because he is passionate about preserving the genetic diversity of heirloom potatoes and saving varieties from extinction. “Preserving a storehouse of information helps protect against diseases of the fut…

Picking a Potato

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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…

Best Ways to Cook Potatoes

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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…

Growing Potatoes by the Bag

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…Maybe you’re not ready to jump into vegetable gardening just yet. But what about a small adventure? How about growing some potatoes in a bag? The Potato Bag allows even first-time gardeners to get a good harvest — up to 13 pounds — without the need for digging or weeding. The Potato Bag is actually a 15-gallon fabric “pot” that measures 18″ across and 14″ tall. The porous fabric makes the pot lightweight and e…

Sweet Spot for Potatoes

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How about growing sweet potatoes in containers? We’re giving it a try in our Grow Beds and our Grow Bags. Come fall, we’ll let you know how it all turned out. Sweet potatoes in the Grow Beds. The third bed is a double-stack to see if there is any benefit to having more soil. Sweet potatoes in the Potato Grow Bag. July 13: Growing strong in the Grow Bed. Growing potatoes seems to be all the rage right now. It’s easy t…

Sweet Potato Harvest

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Wow! The largest tuber weighed in at 4 lbs., 7 oz. Do you grow sweet potatoes? Until this year, my answer would have been “no”. As heat-loving plants with a long growing season, they didn’t seem well-suited to my zone 4 garden. This year, we tried growing sweet potatoes in the Potato Grow Bags. The result has been a sweet success. The largest tuber weighed in at 4 lbs., 7 oz. Total harvest from the two Potato Grow Bags was 19…

Speaking of Spuds

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…a good County Fair exhibit and won a blue ribbon, which paid for my much of my investment in seed potatoes. The crop also kept my family in potatoes for most of the winter. Every pound of seed potatoes I planted yielded about 12 pounds of harvest. In other words, we dug up nearly four bushels or 200 pounds of spuds from just 18 pounds of “seed”. As these Flowering Potatoes show, the plant is especially beautiful when in bloom. The term “s…

This Year, Avoid Late Blight

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Like many who lost tomato plants to late blight last year, I’m wondering: How can I make sure it doesn’t happen again this year? Plant a diversity of tomato varieties to reduce the possibility of disease. Like many gardeners who lost their tomato crop to late blight last year, I’m wondering: How can I make sure it doesn’t happen again this year? Unfortunately, there’s no silver bullet. The most important thin…

1 Million People Want to Know

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…nd what went into producing it. So how come I can’t have the right to know what’s in the food I buy in the store? That’s the goal of the Just Label It campaign, which last month submitted a record-breaking 1.1 million signatures to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in favor of labeling genetically engineered (GE) foods. And in polls by ABC, MSNBC, NPR, the Washington Post, Consumer Reports and others, consistently…

Favorite Potatoes

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I found one of my favorite potatoes while on a garden tour in England about 10 years ago. On our way through the Yorkshire countryside on a soggy spring day, our small group stopped at a pub for dinner. Potatoes produce lots of food in a small space, with little effort. My grandmother, a Maine native, grew Kennebecs and Katahdins. My stepdad, a Vermonter from the cold Northeast Kingdom, swears by Green Mountain, Red Norland, and &…