Editor's note: Chronicle staffer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, is using The Chronicle's rooftop garden as her classroom, with Fred Bové and Kevin Bayuk from the San Francisco Permaculture Guild as ...

We are all looking for better ways to increase the production in our gardens but do potato towers actually work? We know that throughout history the idea of hilling our potatoes has been used. Hilling ...

Americans have rediscovered fresh, locally grown food, they love it, and, increasingly, they want to grow it themselves. Last year, 35 percent of all American households, 42 million of them, grew food ...

Try 3 different methods for growing potatoes, including how to grow a potato tower, plus curing and storage tips. Why go through all the effort of digging a trench, hilling up your potatoes, and all ...

I had never heard of such a thing before, but a potato chip tower is a teetering tower built from potato chips — and in this case, fried salami — that’s “glued” together with a sticky sweet glaze. I ...

We live in the middle of a major potato growing region of the U.S. We can get good quality, standard-variety potatoes fairly inexpensively, so why waste garden space on growing potatoes? While quality ...

I’m not a great hostess. Despite knowing a lot about food, I find party planning to be overwhelming. Because of this, when I do find myself hosting a gathering, I tend to lean on the same ...

Fry the salami. I used presliced salami because I did not trust myself to be able to cut it thinly enough on my own, but choose your own adventure. I fried the salami in a dry skillet, over medium-low ...