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 ...

Planting potatoes under the wrong weather conditions can result in your plants becoming damaged or even dying, so is fall the ...

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 ...

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are usually harvested about 100 to 110 days after planting or when the plant’s leaves start to yellow. Though, sweet potatoes can continue to grow after their leaves ...

Over time vegetable gardeners start to find all sorts of self-seeding food plants freely pop up throughout the garden.

Sweet potatoes are ready to harvest after about 90 to 130 days in the ground. Getting this timing right is very important, as harvesting too early or too late can impact sweet potato flavor. Keep an ...

Bryan Searle dug potatoes early Sept. 29 and aimed to finish harvest the next day. “All in all, digging went quite well,” he ...