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Updated: August 8, 2022
Growing Potatoes in a Home Garden
Growing potatoes in the home vegetable gardens
Updated: October 25, 2022
Green Shoulders on Tomatoes and Potatoes
Sometimes on large-fruited tomato cultivars, the top of the tomato remains green and doesn't entirely ripen.
Updated: September 13, 2022
Late Blight of Tomato and Potato
Late blight is the plant disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s. This water mold disease is potentially destructive to tomatoes and potatoes that are grown in Maryland, but it rarely occurs here.
Updated: July 12, 2022
Potato Tuberworms on Vegetables
Potato tuberworms feed between leaf surfaces and bore into stems of potato plants.
Updated: July 12, 2022
Potato Leafhopper on Vegetables
Puckered, curling leaves may be an indication of leafhopper insects feeding on vegetable plants.
Updated: July 12, 2022
Common Scab of Vegetables
Common scab is a bacterial disease that produces circular, corky, raised lesions or bumps on the tuber or root surface of potatoes.
Updated: July 12, 2022
Colorado Potato Beetle on Vegetables
Colorado potato beetles will create holes in eggplant or potato leaves.