One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Yes, this a children’s game, but it might also be the chant of potato diseases and pests that are ready, willing, and able to chow down your crop of spuds.

Potatoes can be a bit challenging to grow because you can't keep an eye on them; often, what you see above ground isn't even an accurate indicator of what the potato itself looks like. Even if the ...

Question: I have a huge garden and have recently dug about 400 hills of potatoes. I doubt if I have more that 10 to 20 potatoes that are a normal shape. Some have three or four potatoes stuck together ...