If possible, in the year before you plant potatoes, plant a cover crop to improve the soil and the potato production.
VOA: special.2009.03.10
But the researchers did much of their work with a phureja, a kind of a potato that has only one copy.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
Jan Low with the International Potato Center, a research organization, says the sweet potato needs a better image in Africa.
VOA: special.2011.01.04
But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
But the researchers did much of their work with a phureja a kind of a potato that has only one copy.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
But Mr.Gustafson sees a better chance for the efforts to increase the popularity of the orange sweet potato in Africa.
VOA: special.2011.01.04
The words hot potato,for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression,hot potato.
VOA: special.2009.12.06
After the potato plants appear, organic mulch can be spread around to hold moisture, help suppress weed growth and cool the soil.
VOA: special.2009.03.10
So the questions must be dealt with carefully, the same way you would handle any other hot potato.
VOA: special.2009.12.06
The potato genome is not yet final but it shows the order of ninety-five percent of the genes.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
Genes direct the making of proteins which do much of the work in building an organism, whether a person or a potato.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
That disease led to starvation in Ireland from potato shortages in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.
VOA: special.2009.10.27
The project is the work of a team from fourteen countries, the Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
Potato shortages caused at least one million deaths and a wave of Irish immigration to America.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
He is leaving for college. Cowboy Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Mr.and Mrs.Potato Head and all his other toys end up at a day care center.
VOA: special.2010.06.14
He noted that a baked potato is not high in fat, but it becomes fatty when people add sour cream and butter to it.
VOA: special.2011.07.05
For example, someone who likes to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down while watching television is sometimes called a couch potato.
VOA: special.2010.03.28
"The sort of foundation product that we serve is lefse, this Norwegian potato flatbread, and I grew up eating that every year at Christmastime.
VOA: special.2011.08.08
His diet during his trips includes chocolate candies,nuts, potato chips,cookies, dried beef and energy bars.
VOA: special.2011.03.23
Robert Armstrong, an artist from California, developed the term couch potato in nineteen seventy-six.
VOA: special.2010.03.28
A potato has twelve chromosomes and about eight hundred forty million base pairs.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
The potato genome shows the order of ninety-five percent of the genetic material.
VOA: special.2009.11.03
But potato breeders currently spend ten to twelve years developing new kinds.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
Richard Veilleux, a professor at Virginia Tech, provided that variety of potato.
VOA: special.2009.10.20
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