Nothing beats potatoes from your own garden!

The only potato growing guide you need [Food Gardening Network Preview]( January 12, 2024  [How to Grow Potatoes: Scrumptious Spuds in your Garden]( Baked, mashed, roasted, fried… the marvelous potato is always a winner, especially when it comes from your own garden! [Potatoes] Gain full access to this premium Gardening Guide—and an entire Library of food gardening advice—with a [Charter Gold Membership in Food Gardening Network!]( Dear Gardener, Did you know that Americans eat up to 33 pounds of potatoes and 8 pounds of sweet potatoes every year? And did you know, the potato and sweet potato aren’t actually related? Potatoes are in the same family as peppers and eggplants, while the sweet potato is related to the morning glory. They do, however, need similar conditions and care, so if you can grow one, you can grow both. That’s true pretty much wherever you live, too. Potatoes grow on every continent except Antarctica, though they originated in the Andes Mountains of South, where indigenous people have cultivated them for thousands of years. It would be impossible for us to give the entire history of potatoes here, but it’s worth noting that there are at least 4,000 different varieties of potatoes today. [Potatoes] There’s a lot more fascinating history about the potato in the Introduction to Potatoes & Sweet Potatoes, but we do, unfortunately, need to warn you that Yams aren’t what you think they are. The good news is that there’s still lots to love about potatoes, including the 10 recipes in the Potatoes Gardening Guide, from the best dang Sweet Potato Biscuits you’ve ever tasted, to a Slow-Cooked Potatoes & Cabbage recipe that’s about as easy and as tasty as you could ask for in comfort food. Of course, it all starts with Getting Ready to Grow Potatoes. We’ll walk you through all the steps of planning your potato garden, determining what to grow with potatoes, and how often to test your soil. Check out the Potatoes Gardening Guide for all of this and so much more. [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( Potato Plant Profiles Potatoes and sweet potatoes mature in as little as 60 days or as much as 135 days, depending on the variety. They’re loosely divided into early potatoes, mid-season potatoes, and late potatoes, although if you want to have some fun, you could sort them by color, too! You’re likely familiar with red potatoes, yellow potatoes, and those with a light russet skin, but potatoes may also be purple, pink, beet-red, purple, purple splashed with pink, white, and blue. In the Plant Profiles section of the Potatoes Gardening Guide, you can read the details about more than two dozen varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes. Find out which potatoes are best for baking, which are good for steaming, which varieties are good for storage, and which ones are resistant to scabs and potato beetles. Learn about the Purple Viking, the Red Norland, the Nicola, the Violetta sweet potato, and the Triumph sweet potato. These potatoes are a feast for the eyes as much as they are for the taste buds! And when you’re through checking out the Potatoes Gardening Guide, you can read through more than two dozen (and growing!) Gardening Guides that comes in when you join The Food Gardening Network. How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Diseases There’s no secret that potatoes and sweet potatoes can be susceptible to several diseases. Unfortunately, this keeps a lot of gardeners away from planting this amazing and versatile vegetable. In reality, as long as you start with certified seed potatoes, monitor your plants, and maintain good soil moisture, you have a good chance of growing a healthy crop of delicious potatoes. You can explore the most common ailments in How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Diseases in Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes, and find out which diseases you can largely ignore (they’re strictly cosmetic), which ones you can treat easily, and, sadly, which one can ruin not just your potatoes, but potatoes in your neighbor’s garden, too. Don’t stress too much about this, though. The Potatoes Gardening Guide has all the information you need to grow a healthy crop, starting with a look at the different Types of Potato Plants, then moving into what kind of soil you need for potatoes, how much water they need, and all the way through harvesting and cooking your garden-grown potatoes. [Potatoes]  [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership Special Offer—Just $10 for an Entire Year! UPGRADE YOUR MEMBERSHIP TODAY! Become a Charter Gold Member today and get the Food Gardening Magazine and Library, Gardening Guides, and Recipes! [Gold Membership] Check out all that this new food gardening club has to offer you today! YES, SIGN ME UP NOW FOR JUST $10!]( But this is just a fraction of what you get with your [Food Gardening Network Charter Gold Membership]( You see Gold Membership is packed with benefits you can’t get anywhere else! 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