Seed Potatoes

Homegrown/garden potatoes are far superior to store bought potatoes. The nice thing about growing potatoes is that they can be grown in a variety of ways: in the ground, in a raised bed, or in containers/grow bags.

Where can you get seed potatoes?

1. Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes: I have ordered from this company before. I really like their website because you can easily see what category a variety of potato falls in. There are fingerling, early, late, etc. potatoes.

2. Earth Apples: This store sells two of my favorite potatoes: Alaska Bloom (a super early potato) and Purple Magic.

3. Sage Garden Greenhouse: This is a place I frequently get my seed potatoes from.

4. Greenhouse

5. Retail stores (my last preference as if you can support local, do it!)

In the winter time I take over 1/4 of my dads garage and store my seed potatoes and mint plants in it. I try to keep the garage at a balmy 5 Celsius and store the potatoes in an area that shares a wall with the house. I am typically storing around 200-250 lbs of potatoes.

How many seed potatoes do you need? I will chop my potatoes up and usually get 2-4 pieces per potato. If you want 10 potato plants you need anywhere from 3-5 potatoes. Want 50 potato plants you need anywhere from 13-25 potatoes.

How many potatoes will you get per plant? My favorite saying "it's the wild wild west"! Some varieties give you lots of potatoes, earlier varieties give you 1-1.5 lbs per plant, average is 2-5 lbs per plant. If you want a ton of potatoes plant Amarosa. I'm constantly amazed at the amount of potatoes this variety produces. This is a nice article of everything to do with planting potatoes. This is a nice table of the varieties of potatoes available and their uses.