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Heron
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Minnesota
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Hi everyone.
![]() So, last year I made the mistake of not thinking about planting potatoes until too late in the season and everything was sold out. Where do all of you organic growers get your tubers? And how early in the spring do you order them? Do mail order places wait to ship? I'm very green when it comes to purchasing potato tubers...all advice is appreciated!
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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I'm always tempted to mail-order, but they're pretty pricey, especially when you add in shipping. I usually end up with an assortment of sprouted-in-the grocery-store, here-take-a-few-of-what-I-planted and the cute little baby potatoes of various colors. What you get at the feed and seed stores here are the red-skinned ones that are soooo good as New Potatoes, but are just plain hard when they're mature. So I don't plant those. Especially NOT 50 pounds of them.
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Heron
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Minnesota
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Fox
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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There was an interesting thread on potatoes a while back:
Potato varieties One of the sources recommended in that thread was this one: Potato Gardens Across the USA Lots of choices ![]() Potato Garden: Seed Potatoes
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA
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Because grocery store potatoes could be treated to prevent sprouting, if you're going that route, only use potatoes that are already showing some type of bud or sprout from the eyes.
If you're buying seed potatoes, you don't have to worry about that. Whether it was grown organically or not is a personal choice - the potato (or seed) doesn't know the difference.
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Heron
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Minnesota
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Thanks for the good info biigblueyes!
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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![]() Thanks, NEWisc! Up until now, I've just planted store-bought potatoes that have begun to spout...but I'm interested in trying some varieties I've never heard of. I'm even more interested in growing a variety of fresh vegetables to include in some upcoming changes to our eating habits!
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Heron
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Doesn't it make vegetable gardening that much more exciting. I know it is starting to make me really thinking about expanding my vegetable garden! I might just've been bitten by the vegetable gardening bug. ...I guess I am my father's son. ![]()
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