Potatoes and citrus are the principal export crops.

Potatoes, cauliflower, tomatoes, and flowers are important export crops, shipped mostly to the United Kingdom.

Potatoes are occasionally referred to as " Irish potatoes " or " white potatoes " in the United States, to distinguish them from sweet potatoes.

Potatoes are cross-pollinated mostly by insects, including bumblebees, which carry pollen from other potato plants, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs as well.

Potatoes do not keep very well in storage and are vulnerable to molds that feed on the stored tubers, quickly turning them rotten.

Potatoes are often broadly classified as high on the glycemic index ( GI ) and so are often excluded from the diets of individuals trying to follow a low-GI diet.

Potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine.

Potatoes grown in a tall bag are common in gardens as they increase potato yield and minimize the amount of digging required at harvest

Potatoes are generally grown from seed potatoes – these are tubers specifically grown to be disease free and provide consistent and healthy plants.

Potatoes are sensitive to heavy frosts, which damage them in the ground.

* Potatoes are used to brew alcoholic beverages such as vodka, potcheen, or akvavit.

* Potatoes ( mainly Russets ) are commonly used in plant research.

Potatoes are prepared in many ways: skin-on or peeled, whole or cut up, with seasonings or without.

Potatoes are boiled between 10 and 25 minutes, depending on size and type, to become soft.

Potatoes are also a major ingredient as fast food items, such as aloo chaat, where they are deep fried and served with chutney.

Potatoes are represented anthropomorphically as well as naturally.

Potatoes are often served as a side dish, often boiled.

Potatoes are eaten year-round as the main source of carbohydrates, and are a staple in many traditional dishes.

* Potatoes and beans are cultivated in South America

Potatoes are grown in fields near the coast, using seaweed-based fertiliser, and in addition the region produces pork products, other root vegetables, cattle ( see below ) and summer berries such as strawberries are grown abundantly.

Potatoes after exposure to Phytophthora infestans.

Potatoes are the second most important crop after grain.

There have been many recorded instances during golfing tournaments when a fan has shouted " Mashed Potatoes " after Tiger Woods finishes his shot.

In his debut novel, poet Yakich ( The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine ) uses the second person to tell the story of a high school English teacher whose wife dies after ingesting a cashew, leaving him a single dad to his almost toddler son, Owen.

Potatoes were substituted after their introduction to France.

* Sept. 9, 1975-Valued Outfit capo and adept torturer William " Willie Potatoes " Daddano, Sr., died in federal prison, about three months after his good friend from his " 42-Gang " days, Sam Giancana, was assassinated.

Potatoes are mashed on a flat griddle ( tava ), and made into a thick gravy after adding diced tomatoes, finely grilled onion, green peas and chopped capsicum ( green bell pepper ).

Potatoes, tomatoes, rice tobacco, lettuce, safflowers, and other plants have been genetically engineered to produce insulin and certain vaccines.

The expression " French Fried Potatoes " first occurs in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by E. Warren: " French Fried Potatoes.

" Pommes de terre frites à cru, en petites tranches " (" Potatoes deep-fried while raw, in small cuttings ") in a manuscript in Thomas Jefferson's hand ( circa 1801 – 1809 ) and the recipe almost certainly comes from his French chef, Honoré Julien.

Potatoes entered the German cuisine in the late 18th century, and were almost ubiquitous in the 19th century and since.

Potatoes overtook cider as the most important crop in Jersey in the 1840s.

In early 1960, Brown's band recorded the top ten R & B hit, "( Do the ) Mashed Potatoes " on Dade Records, owned by Henry Stone, under the pseudonym " Nat Kendrick & The Swans " because Brown's label refused to release it.

Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region four centuries ago, and have become an integral part of much of the world's cuisine.

Potatoes yield abundantly with little effort, and adapt readily to diverse climates as long as the climate is cool and moist enough for the plants to gather sufficient water from the soil to form the starchy tubers.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Questions and, particularly, exclamations are usually channeled along informal, horizontal lines not indicated in Figure 3 and seldom are carried beyond the nearest neighbor.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

By a combination of music, lighting effects, and narration, famous events that have transpired in these locations are evoked and re-created for large audiences usually to considerable acclaim.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Business loans generally are repayable in regular installments -- usually monthly, including interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum on the unpaid balance -- and have a maximum maturity of 10 years ; ;

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

usually concerned about America's belief that attainment and success are measured in dollars and titles.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

Greases, stains, and miscellaneous soils are usually sorbed onto the soiled surface.

It is almost certain that some of these, usually a trifle smaller than the honeybees, are andrenas or mining bees.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.