Why Grow Your Own Potatoes Do you like to eat sausages with mashed potatoes or how about french fries Most of us like to eat potatoes in one form or another But have you ever thought about growing them Fresh Flavor You will never cut through a fresher crispier potato than one you’ve just pulled up from your garden Often fruit and vegetables that you have grown yourself have real flavor partly because you can eat them just as soon as they have been picked (cid:87) Potatoes that you cook straight from the garden are hard crisp and dense (cid:83) Potatoes can be prepared in all sorts of ways mashed baked fried boiled chipped or roasted What’s your favorite way 6
Room to Grow You don’t need much room to grow your own potatoes either Did you know that you can grow them in a growbag or pot if you don’t have a vegetable plot But one of the best things about growing your own potatoes is that it’s fun Flower (cid:83) You can grow potatoes in small places even in buckets and bags SCIENCE SPOT What Is a Tuber The potato is a stem tuber A tuber is a bulbous growth that grows on the stem or root of a plant The bulbous stem tuber stores food or nutrients for the plant but it can also be dug up and eaten this is the actual potato Leaf Stem Root Young tuber Old seed potato 7
