potatoes
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If you’ve lived through more than one Minnesota spring, you’ve learned not to trust the calendar, no matter what tradition says. A lot of gardeners rely on the adage: Good Friday is potato-planting day, if the weather allows.
Some years...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
Our biweekly crop by crop growing season prep series continues. This week we are digging into potatoes.
Cutting seed: impacts on yield, tuber size, and disease pressure
Due to the warm spring weather, many growers are getting ready to...
A reference to sweet potatoes may immediately conjure images of Thanksgiving dinner tables, where the popular tuber often is featured during dinner and dessert. Though it's likely sweet potatoes, also known as yams, are most popular in fall, they're both available and enjoyable year-round. That's...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
From hollow heart to soft rot to freeze damage, we've seen a whole host of potato issues this fall. This article provides an overview of these issues and management tips for each.
Hollow heart
Image: Ben Phillips, Bugwood.org...
Potatoes are a staple of many people's diets. Versatile, affordable and tasty, potatoes are, not surprisingly, included in myriad recipes.
Potatoes are underground tubers that grow on the roots of the potato plant. Potatoes are from the nightshade family, which means they're related to tobacco and...
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION - www.extension.umn.edu
Our biweekly crop by crop growing season prep series continues. This week we are digging into potatoes.
Cutting seed: impacts on yield, tuber size, and disease pressure
Due to the warm spring weather, many growers are getting ready to...
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