If you go to all the work to plant seed pieces in your garden, ... How to Prepare Seed Potatoes for Planting. Once you’ve decided what types of potatoes to grow and it’s ready to plant, ...

He said some New York seed potatoes go to Wisconsin, Idaho, California and even to Canada and South America. Westra said the seed potatoes go through two inspections while they are growing, which ...

OK, I know it’s getting a little late in the season to plant seed potatoes. I saw this discussion on a Master Gardener listserve about seed potatoes and I had to share.

Potatoes can be easily grown in a large pot on a porch or patio, and late fall, winter and early spring are the best times to plant since most of the popular varieties take 70 to 90 days to form ...

Pre-sprouting (chitting) seed potatoes for 2 to 4 weeks before planting helps you make progress while the ... (chit), while figuring out where they’re going to grow and preparing the soil ...

Once potato plants have gotten to be 6-12 inches tall, gardeners will want to mound dirt around their stems so that only 2-4 inches of the plant is above dirt.

It can be hard to know when to harvest potatoes but if you want to get a second crop after harvesting the first, this is what ...

If your seed potatoes are small, you can plant them whole. Cut larger seed potatoes into pieces weighing 1-1/2 to 2 ounces. Make sure each piece has at least one eye.

Go to a garden center and purchase seed potatoes that have been produced for seeding this spring. If you like white potatoes, try Superior, Salem, or Katahdin. For red potatoes go with Norland or ...

HALSTAD, Minn. — Valley Tissue Culture, Inc. is a Red River Valley business that has grown from an experimental concept in the 1980s into a multi-generational potato seed company today. Today ...

KARLSTAD, Minn. — Sander Dagen raised an exceptional seed potato crop this year. That makes it sting even more as he is forced to abandon approximately 80% of his acres because he cannot harvest ...