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Learn how to grow potatoes in this free video on potato farming and agriculture.
There are 10 videos in this series:
Learn about the different types of potatoes to grow in this free video on home gardens.
Learn where to plant potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to dig a trench for planting potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to prepare potatoes for planting in this free video on home gardening,
Learn how to plant potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to fertilize potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to hill potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to harvest pototoes in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to stop potato beetles in this free video on home gardening.
Learn how to cure potatoes in this free video on home gardening.
Potatoes were first harvested in modern day Peru and then spread to Europe through the colonization of South America. Since its initiation into Western cuisine, potatoes have been grown and harvested all over the world and provide an important source of starch. This root is easy to plant and farm and always a good thing to include in your home farm or garden.
In this free video series, watch as expert farmer and gardener Doug Smiddy teaches how to grow potatoes. Learn the different types of potatoes, how to dig a trench for potatoes, where to plant potatoes, how to fertilize potatoes, how to plant potatoes, how to harvest potatoes, how to stop potato beetles, and how to cure potatoes. Start farming potatoes today with the help of ExpertVillage.
Doug Smiddy Doug Smiddy has had an active interest in gardening as long has he can remember. "When people ask me haw long I've been gardening, I like to tell them that I've had the dirt under my fingernails since I was a kid. Perhaps I should wash them!" After working for a very popular garden center and nursery for over 6 years, and becoming a certified Master Gardener in 2004, he now owns his own successful business, Smiddy's Gardening Services, a very in-demand local company. "I think that the greatest pleasure I get is from giving lectures at local libraries, and from teaching kids about gardening when I work with the 4H clubs here in Vermont. It's true what they say, to teach is to learn."dkdk
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