Articles about tubers and root crops, including potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, and other underground crops.
Growing healthy vegetables begins long before the first harvest. It starts with living soil, carefully selected seeds and the patience to let nature follow its own rhythm. During the autumn of 2025, we sowed carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) and root parsley (Petroselinum crispum var. tuberosum) in one of the raised beds at Mavronero Farm. … Read more
Freshly harvested pink potatoes collected from a raised bed at Mavronero. (Solanum tuberosum) This week at Mavronero, we harvested our pink potatoes after the plants naturally reached the end of their growing cycle. The foliage gradually turned yellow and dry — a clear sign that the potatoes underground had matured and were ready to be … Read more
This season at Mavronero, potatoes also found their place in the garden. Planted in October as part of the autumn–winter cycle, they are growing quietly through the cooler months, rooted in the soil and following a rhythm that feels both familiar and deeply local. We used seed potatoes with visible “eyes” — some of them … Read more
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