Potatoes will have a better chance of growth when they are planted beside this one thing, expert gardeners have shared.

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan, its title. The blight began to infect the crop across much of ...

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...

Take some time to remove all the tubers, not matter how tiny, or they'll grow next year and disrupt that year's crops. Potato blight or 'late blight' is a devastating fungus disease that spreads ...

Although the potato isn’t really Irish, it has become Irish by association. So, this St. Patrick’s Day, make sure you include potatoes in your menu. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Erin Go Bragh! (which ...

I did cook the requisite corned beef, cabbage and potatoes, yesterday, the Holy Day, March 17. I also offered a meatless ...