They are packed with nutrients.

One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Yes, this a children’s game, but it might also be the chant of potato diseases and pests that are ready, willing, and able to chow down your crop of spuds.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many vegetable gardeners, I love growing potatoes. They're fairly low-maintenance, don't need too much space, and can be ...

Sweet alyssum is a low-growing, flowering, pretty annual known for its petite white and purple flowers. It's also one of the best potato companion plants. Alyssum blooms attract beneficial insects, ...

Agricultural scientists in the U.S. have developed a new variety of not-so-sweet potato, called Liberty. Known as a boniato, or tropical sweet potato, Liberty has a dark red skin and light yellow, dry ...

A new study from a University of Maryland-led team of researchers confirms the long held idea that the Colorado potato beetle, by far the most damaging insect to the U.S. potato industry, originated ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is worried that seed potato shipments from Canada to eight states might have been carrying a microscopic, wormlike pest that attacks potato plants. The department ...

Approximately six thousand hectares of Veracruz, in the west coast of Mexico, are dedicated to the production of potato (Solanum tuberosum), in which more than three thousand farmers participate.

Taking advantage of the natural benefits that come from companion planting can help deter lots of pests that usually trouble sweet potato plants. Your plants can remain healthy and grow strong to give ...

INKSTER, N.D. -- Potato psyllids, an insect pest that in some parts of the country carries a serious disease bacterium, was found Thursday in university research plots in northern Grand Forks County.