You get your fingers down in that very loose soil and pick the little potatoes. If you use a fork or a shovel, you are going to damage a lot of potatoes. The harvest, he says, depends on the potato variety. Potato facts Potatoes probably originated more than 2,000 years ago in Peru, where the Inca Indians began cultivating wild varieties. Their botanical name is Solanum tuberosum.
Potatoes always grow from other potatoes, called seed potatoes.
These starter potatoes are whole small potatoes, or a cut piece of a larger one. The information you receive on-line from Mercury Center is protected by the copyright laws of the United States. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, retransmitting, or repurposing of any copyright-protected material.