Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

What Are Seed Potatoes? Seed potatoes are potatoes that were specially grown for planting. Unlike the potatoes you buy for cooking, seed potatoes have not been treated with a grow ...

House Bill 287 aims to name sweet potatoes new Mississippi state veggie. The House OK'd it, and it's going to the Senate. Do you know MS top crops?

Nicola Bradley, head gardener at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, said it's good to start readying the ground as early as ...

One of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden is sweet potatoes, as well as other types of potatoes. Angela Judd from ...

What does this have to do with flowering? Older seed tubers produce plants with more flowers since there are more stems per plant to end in a flower (potatoes produce one flower cluster per mainstem).

The answer, of course, is the lowly potato. How can the potato be in the center of so much history? As unlikely as it seems, potatoes were first grown in the Peruvian Highlands where few crops grow, ...

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