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Description: The Solanum tuberosum is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, commonly grown for its starchy ... more
Potatoes ... tuber. Potatoes are the world's most widely grown tuber crop, and the fourth largest food crop in terms of fresh produce — after rice, wheat, and maize ('corn'). The potato was domesticated in southern Peru[1] and northern Bolivia and is important to the culture of the Andes, where farmers grow many different varieties that have a remarkable diversity of colors and shapes. In pre-Colombian times they were also widely cultivated on Chiloe Island, in Chile. Potatoes spread from South America to Spain and from there to the rest of the world after European colonization in the late 1400s and early 1500s. They soon became an important field crop.

Newest Review: ... so did not know when my bucket grown potatoes would be ready to harvest. Read this article and got all the information I ... more

 ... needed. I am fortunate enough to have a free supply of very well rotted horse manure and wood shaving (teeming with earth worms)so hope my "pots" grow and produce well. I did not know about this site until I DID A Google search and looked at about 6 sites before coming to this one. Isn't it lovely to have a site like this with so many people ready and willing to help each other out with information and chats. I belong to numerous sites (mainly regarding Motorhomes,Pets and Narrowboats) so will keep this one in ...more

clairestevens
Premium Review Potatoes: How to grow potatoes in pots (594 words)
by clairestevens - written on 10/01/08 (Very useful, 1083 readings)
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Where would we be without potatoes? Roast dinners wouldn't be half as nice, sausage and mash would just be a plate of sad looking sausages and teenagers everywhere would have to exist without that student staple of baked potato and cheese. Potatoes come in a wide range of varieties, but the two main types are earlies and maincrop. They're both panted at the same time, but earlies are harvested earlier than maincrops, which tend to be the ones stored over winter. I only started growing potatoes last year. I always thought they needed masses of room and my garden is tiny. But then I started talking to my nan (who is a genius gardener) and she told ...

barbie84
Premium Review cheap baby potatoes (266 words)
by barbie84 - written on 09/03/08 (Useful, 79 readings)
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Potatoes are a realy easy vegetable to grow but unless you have a huge area you are never going to be able to avoid buying them in a supermarket completley. They need to be planted in early spring, my first attempt was last year and i used red potanic potato seeds brought from a garden center, potatoes will grow in almost any soil but not clay. Plant your potato seeds in the ground about 1 inch deep and about 1 foot apart from each other, you will neeed to water them thoroughly once a week, you will get a plant growing on the top of the soil which will flower, when this begins to flower you have got new baby potatoes under the ground ready to eat ...

rjw-Wilts
Premium Review Potatoes: tasty new spuds (247 words)
by rjw-Wilts - written on 12/01/08 (Useful, 49 readings)
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I love potatoes, mash being my favourite way of eating them. On a holiday in Peru my husband and I agreed that we didn't much like the food except for the yellow potato soup and mash which were delicious. The flavour made us think the cooks had added cheese but were assured it wasn't so. As someone who loves cheese in my potato mash this was ideal as there was flavour with no added calories. I was very pleased to read that the scientists have now developed a variety which can be grown in this country. They are called Phureja and I have bought them for a premium price in Sainsburys. They will still have to be a bit of a treat at the present price but if they become ...

 

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