Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones. Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and foliage ...

It’s time to dig up your potatoes! Or so you think. There’s a fine line when it comes to completing your potato harvest, according to garden columnist Jessica Damiano. The expert wrote in an ...

Dig carefully. Use a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their ...

Since potatoes grow underground, it can be hard to tell when they're ready to harvest. Watch their foliage. Once the leaves turn brown and die, wait a few weeks for the largest, best potatoes. Make ...

Knowing when to harvest vegetables is equally as important as knowing how to grow them. Some veggies do best when picked immature, others need to be fully ripe. (Julia Kumari Drapkin) People work hard ...

Planting potatoes under the wrong weather conditions can result in your plants becoming damaged or even dying, so is fall the right season for your crops?

It is finally time to harvest our sweet potatoes. We planted ours in the summer, as sweet potatoes are one of the few plants that can be planted and will thrive during the peak of our summer heat.

With meteorologists predicting a hard freeze in southeast Idaho for Wednesday, farmers rushed to harvest all their potatoes before the surprise cold snap ruined them.One farmer in Hamer, Idaho, about ...

Time lapse of growing eyes of potatoes into harvestable tubers over 90 days. The eye was cut off of a store-bought russet ...