Vegetables

Grow Bags for Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

When harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes from the ground or from a raised bed, you have to dig them out.  With this method, you risk bruising the skin which isn’t good for storing.   If you grow them in a grow bag, you can just dump the dirt and harvest the potatoes.   While you […]

Recipes Vegetables

Lots of Possibilities with Potatoes

If you recall, I am growing several varieties of potatoes this year.  The purple majesty potatoes have purple flesh and skin.  We roasted them by doing the following. Roasted Potatoes Lightly coat the potato pieces with olive oil Sprinkle with kosher salt and ground pepper Add some fresh rosemary Roast for 20 to 25 minutes […]

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 […]