Gardening is becoming increasingly popular potato and potato were planted each year with an increasing number of vegetable gardens in their own gardens and allotments.
And no wonder why. They are easy to grow, nurture, harvest, storage, cooking and taste just great.
Now the potato comes from the highlands of Ecuador and Peru and are a kind of annual plants grown for food in most countries around the world. They are one of the most important crops in the world, along with maize is the staple food of rice and wheat.
There are thousands of different kinds of potatoes and they are the food most grown and eaten in Western civilization.
They are part of the family Solanaceae and botanically known as Solanum tuberosum. They are related to deadly nightshade and tomatoes.
In temperate potatoes three times a season, first firsts, firsts and second most important crop, giving a succession of crops ready for harvest from May to October.
Potatoes is simple and the best place is a sunny place where they will be in the sun almost all day and not in the shade. Avoid areas that bag of ice.
Almost any soil will do, but to the best size and best plants to the soil excavated to a depth of at least a kick in the fall, autumn, adding a much well-rotted manure or garden compost and let it to break down until next spring.