Unless you live in the high mountainous regions of the country, growing potatoes in the home garden is practically impossible. We’ve tried it, and usually end up with a harvest of potatoes the size of ...

As early as 7,000 years ago, prehistoric societies in the tropical forests of Central and South America changed over from foraging to food production by cultivating manioc and other plants with edible ...

It's spring, and there's no better time to plant caladium tubers. Caladiums — wildly popular because of their ornamental foliage — are perennials that flaunt spade-shaped leaves from spring to autumn ...

Hawaii’s tropical fruit crops include mysore raspberry. In 2008, the industry produced 2.1 million pounds of crops valued at $4 million. Kathy King, the statistics service’s Hawaii statistician, said ...

Yuca, cassava, mandioca and manioc are all common names for one of the most important staple food crops in the tropics around the world. Originally from South America, cassava is believed to have been ...

Many root vegetables are considered “cool weather” crops—they grow lush and juicy when daytime temperatures are in the seventies, but barely muddle through hot weather. Which is why we plant them as ...

Sanjay Kumar Singh, Deputy Director General (Horticultural Sciences), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), has underscored the need to promote diversified food systems over monocropping, ...

Root crops have long been popular with gardeners. While our ancestors dug wild roots to supplement their diets, modern humans have spent decades breeding and selecting root crops to develop the ...

Field history matters when trying to apply the optimal amount of nitrogen for sweet potato crops. Cover crops grown in the same plots prior to sweet potato crops affected how much nitrogen was needed.