Vegetables

More from the Onion Family

Onions can be grown from sets or seeds. I grow both. You can usually find red, yellow and white sets which look like mini onions or bulbs. Sets are onions that have been grown close together to produce small bulbs. They should be planted with the pointed side up.  Also, the point should be just […]

Vegetables

Planting Potatoes in a Grow Bag

This blog is providing an update on the prior one titled “Grow Bags for Potatoes”.   I usually store the seed potatoes that I purchase in a brown bags so they don’t touch each other and put them on a shelf in my garage.  I check on them every week to see if the eyes are forming […]

Vegetables

More on Potatoes

As a follow up to the blog titled “Unusual Colors for Potatoes”,  I am also growing Ozette  and Maris Piper potatoes which I purchased from www.landrethseeds.com. Ozette potatoes (see picture above) are fingerlings which grow small and narrow.  Ozettes have yellow skin and flesh.  Legend has it that this potato is an ancient Peruvian variety […]