Ground cover plants are a great addition to any garden, but they're especially useful in vegetable gardens. "Ground covers ...

Sweet potatoes are surprisingly easy to grow if you look for the right spot in your garden with ideal conditions, taking into ...

Raised garden beds are ideal for edible plants, as they keep your harvest organized, prevent over-planting, and deter weeds ...

Potatoes are a versatile and popular vegetable that can be grown in home gardens. Plant certified seed potatoes in spring and harvest new potatoes after flowering or wait for larger tubers after the ...

Midwesterners are resilient, and our vegetable gardens should be too.

Today's topic is sweet potatoes. But hold the marshmallows; these sweet potatoes aren't for the table. For the summer flower garden, however, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a ...

Spring-like weather have you thinking about the garden?

During the last 35 years of living and planting potatoes on Dinglishna Hill, I have found two important sources of a well-controlled flow of electrical energy that power and govern the growth of my ...

One‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ of the most frequent kitchen scraps that end up in the garbage is potato peels, but they are full of essential nutrients that plants love. Rather than putting them in the garbage, these ...