Seed Potatoes
Potatoes, harvested from your backyard, and then boiled and served with plenty of butter, are nothing short of heavenly. Pick them small for the most delicate garden treat. Let them get larger if you want to mash or store them. Plant the seed Potatoes two to four weeks before the last spring frost. Plant them 12 in. apart and cover with about 3 in. of soil. When the shoots reach 10-12 in. tall, use a hoe or shovel to scoop soil from between rows and mound it against the plants, burying the stems halfway. Repeat as needed through the growing season to keep the tubers covered.
Bintje
LATE SEASON
Originating in 1910, Bintje potatoes have a pale yellow skin on a long oval tuber with a yellow flesh. Heavy setting, the thick skin makes this a good storage potato. Excellent all purpose potato with fairly dry texture. Great for corn chowder.
Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun Norland
EARLY SEASON
Norland potatoes are an attractive, medium, oblong potato with shallow eyes, smooth dark-red skin and white flesh. Norland is quite a versatile potato for both boiling, baking, and barbecuing. It also is a an exceptional storage potato.
Days to Maturity: 65 Exposure: Full Sun Roko
MID SEASON
The Roko is a mid maturing fresh market variety. Roko tubers are uniform, oval round shaped and have shallow eyes. The skin is smooth, deep red in colour and the flesh colour is white. Roko has a unique quality of producing high yields with uniform potatoes.
Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun Yukon Gold
LATE SEASON
Plant Yukon Gold in your garden and you will have a goldmine of yellow-skinned, yellow-fleshed potatoes ready to harvest in 90 days. Potatoes are perfect for browning or your favourite recipe. An exceptional storage potato.
Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun |
Caribe
EARLY SEASON
Caribe potatoes are a high yielding oblong potato. These are an early maturing variety that can grow quite large if planted early and left until the end of season for harvest. Excellent storage qualities and great for boiling.
Days to Maturity: 65 Exposure: Full Sun Pacific Russet
LATE SEASON
Pacific Russet potatoes are a new release. They have russet skin with white flesh and very shallow eyes. These russet potatoes have a good yield with uniform size. Excellent potatoes for boiling, baking or barbecuing. Great storage potato.
Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun Shepody
MID SEASON
Shepody are a long, smooth, white-skinned, white-fleshed, potato cultivar with excellent French frying quality and Kennebec maturity. Excellent for boiling, baking or french fries. Some resistance to rhizoctonia (black scurf). Stores well.
Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun |
German Butterball
LATE SEASON
German Butterball's sublime mild flavor makes it the gold standard for gold potatoes. Exceptionally tender, buttery yellow flesh. For the full Butterball flavor experience, harvest the potatoes when they're small to medium. Stores well, too.
Days to Maturity: 90 Exposure: Full Sun Red Pontiac
MID SEASON
Red Pontiac potatoes are a top-notch mashing potato! Produces solid tubers with thin red skin, shallow eyes and crisp white flesh. A good keeper—has long-lasting quality. Does extremely well in heavy soils. These get quite large, plant a little closer to control size.
Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun Viking
MID SEASON
Viking potatoes have a bright red skin, holds well in storage. Full bodied flavour for baking and boiling that is extraordinary. The plants have a reasonable resistance to drought and moderate resistance to scab. Great for early boiling of baby potatoes & baking.
Days to Maturity: 80 Exposure: Full Sun |