Planet Veggie Garden

Many of us think sweet potatoes and yams are one and the same. While there is some rationale for the confusion they are indeed two different species.
Yams – like potatoes – are a tuber.
Sweet potatoes are roots and part of the Morning Glory family that grow on trailing vines and root at the nodes.
Yams have [...]

  Potato plants

We’ve had rain 5 days going – a very good thing in this state (California) after a few drought years.
The garden is benefiting and especially the potatoes. I didn’t plant many but some green has bursted through.
This is the International year of the potato, so anointed by the United Nations.
The humble potato is a [...]

… a bunch of sprouted potatoes. Or at least a full tummy.

All this from a few sprouted potatoes

Today I harvested a basket full of potatoes. It’s so much fun to reach into the dirt and pull out these little jewels. All of these potatoes are offspring of potatoes I had in my pantry that started [...]