potatoes fresh from the garden
Gardening advice & tips

Tips for harvesting potatoes

2022-07-22 0

When should you harvest potatoes? Here is how you can tell if the tubers in your garden are ripe and how to get them out of the ground undamaged. Harvesting potatoes depends not only on […]

Cassava fruits
Green Living

Cassava: The tropical potato

2021-06-28 0

The cassava, with botanical name Manihot esculenta, is a useful plant from the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) and has been in cultivation for thousands of years. Cassava originated in Brazil, but arrived in Guinea aboard Portuguese […]