Potatoes

A disease called Potato Late Blight, caused by an oomycete named Phytophthora infestans. An oomycete is not a fungus as such, but is a eukaryotic microorganism with both saprophytic and pathogenic lifestyles. Even today, it cannot be controlled with fungicides, but incidence has been greatly reduced through crop rotation, improved varieties, and other cultural controls.

potatoes are from Peru. The purple potato is simply a result of breeding and genetics.

There was a disease going around called mildew which made the potatoes all black and mushy so nobody could eat them or they would be poisoned

The disease was not called Mildew, it was called The Blight (Phytophthora infestans).

The potato famine was caused by a fungi called potato blight. after just days from coming out of the ground, the potato's would be slimy, black, and rotten.

Ireland is a separate country, not part of England or the UK.

As a prosperous, developed, modern nation Ireland no longer has a staple food. The potato used to be a staple, but the population now has a very varied diet.

It was the most important food for most Irish people, so they did depend on it. When the crop failed because of the potato blight, there was not enough to eat and many people starved to death or left Ireland.

1932-1933 price for potatoes. 15 pounds for 15 cents in Mooresville, Indian. See Related Links.

Cabbage was widely used in Rome. It was served in a variety of ways including raw, served with a vinegar, and cooked. Cato attributed many qualities to cabbage, not just as a food, but also as a medical remedy. The Greeks also loved cabbage. It was first brought to America in the sixteenth century.

Potatoes are the most important artifact and food in Ireland. They eat potatoes at home. They have tales about them in the great potato. Just to say, potatoes is a very important food in Ireland. It's hard to grow stuff in Ireland. It can make people sick.

The English, who had no use for the Irish, spread the potato blight germs around on the potato fields so that they could get rid of as many Irish as possible. It largely worked - millions of Irish either starved to death or immigrated to other nations, like Canada and the USA. (That's why my greatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather came to America)

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It caused lots of Irish people to leave Ireland. Many of those went to the USA and right to this day many people can trace their ancestry as far back as to those people that came from Ireland in the 1840s. Many Irish people got heavily involved in American society, working in all sorts of areas and helping to contribute to the development of the USA at that time. Their legacies remain in things they did, like building cities and towns, building railways, get involved with the police, army, navy, fire services, politics etc.

Potatoes originally come from South America specifically from the Andes mountains. They were brought to Europe by early Spanish explorers in the 1500's. They were slowly adopted as a staple because they can grow in many types of soil.

There are over 4000 kinds of potatoes, all cultivars that trace their origin to Peru and Chile.

Starvation, illness, suicide, murder, old age.

It is a myth there has been guite alot of theories, but no one really believes......

Potatoes were brought back to Ireland and the rest of Europe from the "New World", South America, upon their discovery by European explorers. Potatoes were not found anywhere in Europe, Asia or Africa until they were imported.

Ireland became dependent on potatoes after their importation to Europe largely because it was a poor country and potatoes grow quickly and easily in many different climates.

John Hawkins

Jhon Hawkins was a famous adventurer. Many people think that it was Walter Raleigh but unfourtunatley that is incorrect!

During the 17th through the 19th centuries every square inch of Ireland was owned by some great landlord, either and Englishman or a wealthy Irish Protestant. The vast majority of productive agricultural land was given over to sheep farming or raising crops for export to England. The poor Catholic Irish had to make do with trying to raise food on marginally arable land. There was very little that would grow on the acres they had available to them. Potatoes are a hardy crop that will grow almost anywhere and produce abundantly. As a result potatoes became not merely a staple of the Irish diet but were often the only thing they had to eat. Thus they became known as potato eaters or potato people.

It is not known for certain when it came to Ireland. The potato comes from South America and would have come to Europe with returning Spanish explorers in the 1570s. At sometime within the following years it would have come to Ireland, in the 1570s or 1580s. It is often said that Walter Raleigh brought the potato to Ireland, but that is not certain and generally regarded as a myth.

The sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor was the catalyst that led America into the hopelessly one-sided Spanish-American War in 1898. Many people had motive to sink the Maine. Anyone or any group that wanted war between these two countries would be legitimate targets of speculation. There were the "yellow-journalists" of America like William Randolph Hearst and his ilk who thought that they could generate news rather than just report it. There were a small handful of proud Spanish military officers who resented American heavy-handed interference in Spanish-Cuban affairs, and last but not least the Cuban revolutionaries who were fighting for freedom from their Spanish occupiers, who certainly knew that US intervention on their behalf would assure victory. Lastly their is that ever-present culprit that is always lingering around looking for an opportunity to cause mischief...fate. Perhaps it was indeed an accident in the form of a boiler explosion as the official Navy inquiry ruled. We will probably never know for sure since the Navy towed the hulk out into the deep Gulf of Mexico and sunk it there out of easy reach.

Some people say that he did, some say that he didn't. In fact, he found some people in the west Indies who already had the sweet potato.

in almost all states except for i think two

This is a trick question. He may have liked them had he ever had the opportunity to try one. He died in 1547 and the potato was not introduced to England until 1588. It would have been Queen Elizabeth I that first tried a potato.

no

Insects such as grubs and some beetles eat potatoes, but raw potatoes are toxic to mammals. Well-cooked potatoes are not toxic and can be fed to practically any herbivore or omnivore that develops a taste for them.