Many gardeners agree that learning how to grow potatoes is one of the most rewarding grow-your-own challenges out there, ...

Cured seed potatoes are then ready for planting. Do not plant too deep ... ‘Crystal,’ ‘Kennebec’ and ‘Irish Cobbler,’ Russet type varieties are ‘Norgold’ and ‘Norkotah’.

Second earlies take 16 to 17 weeks to mature after planting, so you should be able ... fertile garden soil, nestle two seed potatoes into the top of the compost and then top up with more compost ...

We visited Buyan Ranch, where Peggy and Bill have been growing potato seed ... three different disease-free seed strains: Umatilla, Clearwater, and Russet Burbank potatoes. Each potato variety ...

In Washington, the No. 2 U.S. potato growing state after Idaho, a billion pounds of russet potatoes, normally processed into french fries and hash browns, are sitting in warehouses that would ...