Best of the Blogs Friday Jan. 7
This is a weekly feature where Suburban Hobby Farmer recaps the best gardening posts this week from other bloggers. Urban Garden Casual Spring Tonic for the Gardener Mindy shares her recipe for seed...
View ArticlePotato Problems
I’VE BEEN LOSING TWO OR THREE POTATO STEMS A DAY. Something has been chewing them off below the dirt line where I’ve mounded soil around the plants. All in all, I’ve lost about eight stems over three...
View ArticleBook Review: Carol Deppe’s The Resilient Gardener
IF THERE’S ONE LESSON YOU REMEMBER from Carol Deppe’s book The Resilient Gardener*, it’s don’t judge a fruit, nut or vegetable by what you’ve brought home from the grocery store. Sometimes grocery...
View ArticleHow to Store Potatoes
A GOOD THING ABOUT GROWING POTATOES is that they keep better than most vegetables. You can store potatoes for months because they continue live on after you pull them out of the ground. This is a good...
View ArticlePlanting Potatoes in Fall
IT NEVER FAILS. Every year after I turn the cover crop, volunteer potato plants sprout in the beds where I planted potatoes last year. These plants seem to know exactly when to start growing based on...
View ArticleBest of the Blogs Friday Jan. 7
This is a weekly feature where Suburban Hobby Farmer recaps the best gardening posts this week from other bloggers. Urban Garden Casual Spring Tonic for the Gardener Mindy shares her recipe for seed...
View ArticlePotato Problems
I’VE BEEN LOSING TWO OR THREE POTATO STEMS A DAY. Something has been chewing them off below the dirt line where I’ve mounded soil around the plants. All in all, I’ve lost about eight stems over three...
View ArticleBook Review: Carol Deppe’s The Resilient Gardener
IF THERE’S ONE LESSON YOU REMEMBER from Carol Deppe’s book The Resilient Gardener*, it’s don’t judge a fruit, nut or vegetable by what you’ve brought home from the grocery store. Sometimes grocery...
View ArticleHow to Store Potatoes
A GOOD THING ABOUT GROWING POTATOES is that they keep better than most vegetables. You can store potatoes for months because they continue live on after you pull them out of the ground. This is a good...
View ArticlePlanting Potatoes in Fall
IT NEVER FAILS. Every year after I turn the cover crop, volunteer potato plants sprout in the beds where I planted potatoes last year. These plants seem to know exactly when to start growing based on...
View ArticleHeirloom Seed Potatoes
Updated: March 14, 2020 Heirloom seed potatoes (a.k.a. heritage seed potatoes) are becoming much more popular. This might be because a lot of people have seen that heirloom tomatoes and apples are...
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