Plant potatoes 2 to 4 weeks prior to your last frost date. Follow all my tips below to keep your seed potatoes from rotting ...

When you eat a baked potato at a restaurant, or bite into a french fry, there is a good chance the seed it came from started ...

Half fill the pot with multi-purpose compost or good quality, fertile garden soil, nestle two seed potatoes into the top of the compost and then top up with more compost or soil to within 2.5cm ...

We visited Buyan Ranch, where Peggy and Bill have been growing potato seed for 59 years. Normally, potato production across the Northwest looks like this. It starts with a seed grower like Buyan ...

According to agricultural marketing department data, the seed potato stock declined to 5.67 lakh tonnes by late October, against the annual demand of 7.5 lakh tonnes ...

A pest called potato cyst nematodes (PCN) has been steadily infecting fields and rendering them useless for growing seed potatoes. A team from the James Hutton Institute has been testing varieties ...

He added that harvested potato seed is later taken to a storage facility at the farm that holds at least 500 tons of potato. At the stores, the product is highly protected from temperature and light.