Tag: potatoes

Purple potatoes also known as blue potatoes are colored-flesh and skin potatoes rich in anthocyanins and carotenoids. Pigmentation is the primary differentiator between purple potatoes and regular potatoes. Anthocyanins are the water soluble flavonoid in purple potatoes responsible for the purple pigment.  Anthocyanins carry a range of health benefits. Purple potato varieties include All Blue, Blackberry, Congo, Purple Fiesta and Purple Majesty among others. Depending on variety, purple potatoes mature in 70 to 130 days from planting. Many cultivars grow as early, mid-season or late-season varieties.

How do you know when to harvest potatoes? Many new home gardening potato farmers struggle with this question. In reality it is pretty simple to determine the right time to harvest your potatoes.

The best conditions for growing potatoes revolve around temperature, soil and sun. Potatoes are a vegetable that is generally considered easy to grow under the right conditions. As shall be explained in this guide, meeting the minimum necessary conditions to grow potatoes is not a complicated affair. Any beginner grower could do this with complete ease.

I love potatoes. You are here most probably because you do to. Your problem could be space, and know-how. How do you go about growing potatoes at home as a first timer and with possibly little space.