How To Grow Potatoes

long-dormant volcano erupted and destroyed the remaining plants. In the rainy season, when potato plants bloom and are easy to find, Ochoa continues to trek through Andean valleys in search of still-undiscovered wild potatoes. But he believes that the chance of finding many more wild potato species is remote—that most of the uncollected ones have probably been destroyed by man or nature. Of the potato species known to exist, Ochoa has discovered about a third of all the wild potatoes known— ...