Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Spring is definitely here! The forsythia is out in full bloom, along with some ...

There is a wide variety of dahlias to fit any garden niche. Start tubers in pots indoors now to encourage early flower ...

It uses this same method to “teach” potato plants to produce the egg white protein ovalbumin. In both cases, as the plants grow in the soil, they produce within the tuber the desired proteins ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the ...

The potato was viewed as “peasant food” and dismissed as unworthy of broader societal adoption. The man who turned the tide ...

sweet potatoes are actually roots that enlarge as they grow. Regular potatoes are tubers which is a different kind of plant structure. Sweet potatoes seem to sprout under just about any kind of ...

Potatoes are the bookend crops of the garden.  Planted in spring, their harvest is the hallmark of late summer into autumn.

Since few genetical investigations of dormancy in crop plants have been reported, an investigation of the cultivated potatoes was begun in 1959; the finding that, in this group, seed and tuber ...

Late March through April is typically the time to plant cool-season vegetables like onions, potatoes, and peas, which can ...

When potatoes are exposed to sunlight, they produce a compound called solanine. The more solanine you eat, the sicker you can ...