It would be more accurate to ask what year where they first cultivated. Potatoes grew wild in South America and were brought over to Europe in the 1500's. They were not popular eating until several hundred years later. In the late 18th century, a Frenchman name Auguste Parmentier championed them as being an excellent solution to feed the hungry masses.
The tough pre-Columbian farmers first discovered and cultivated the potato some 7,000 years ago.
The ancient Incas and indians of South America
It was first grown in Derry, New Hampshire. To be exact In the fairways where the main office is there used to be a barn. That is where it was grown.
The people of South America were raising and eating potatos long before the Europeans "discovered" them and introduced them to Spain.
The Incan empire was the first country to grow potatoes.
yes.
Ireland devoted a great deal of land to growing potatoes, but they were not the first European country to grow many potatoes. Spain, Germany, and France all grew large amounts of potatoes with France having 117 million hectares devoted to growing potatoes in 1840.
They were the first people to grow potatoes!
Potatos are grown in large numbers in Britain and Ireland
Native Americans in the Andes
It is impossible to know who the first farmer to grow organic potatoes was. While more farmers grow inorganically now, before the development of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, all farmers grew organically.
Potatoes were grown by the Inca in Peru.
No potatoes need dirt to grow
Potatoes are plants. They do not grow on other plants.
No. Grapes grow in a vineyard.
The first country in Europe to grow potatoes may have been Spain."The Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 1500s".
potatoes need about 67% of sun to grow