It is finally time to harvest our sweet potatoes. We planted ours in the summer, as sweet potatoes are one of the few plants that can be planted and will thrive during the peak of our summer heat.

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

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 ...

Dig carefully. Use a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their ...

Planting potatoes under the wrong weather conditions can result in your plants becoming damaged or even dying, so is fall the right season for your crops?

HOLLANDALE, Minn. - Neither the cold wind tugging at their sweatshirts nor the overcast skies threatening rain dampened the excitement of third graders on their visit to Larry Reynen's potato field.