Explore this heirloom potato varieties list and decide which are the best heirloom potatoes to plant in your garden. ... 205-6) on techniques for propagating new potato varieties from seed.

Planting Seed Potatoes in Containers. Smaller types of potatoes such as fingerling potatoes are well-suited for containers and often produce prolific harvests in a relatively small space.

Key Points Potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 110 days for early types to over 120 days for late ones.Key harvest signals include firm skin, flowering for early harvests, and ...

Potatoes typically sprout in 10 to 14 days, and the new potatoes will form above the planted seed potato. Keep the soil loose and pulled up around the main stem of each plant.

Potatoes typically sprout in 10 to 14 days, and the new potatoes will form above the planted seed potato. Keep the soil loose and pulled up around the main stem of each plant.

Heirloom bean packets are among 20,000-plus types of seeds preserved inside the seed bank at Seed Savers Exchange. ... 500-plus potatoes, and some 200 garlic varieties.

Potatoes come in different types, waxy or floury, the starch content of which matters depending on which kind of recipe you have. — HAUKE-CHRISTIAN DITTRICH/dpa ...

The benefits of chitting the seed potatoes of maincrop varieties, which are much longer in the ground and generally far slower to crop (typically 16-22 weeks) is even more debatable.