Tubers

Potatoes are often the hidden crop of the garden. “What are those beautiful flowers?” They are potatoes, hidden in the ground. Potatoes require hilling to be successful and structures built from strawbales or wood help boost yields.

Spacing & Yield
On 30” and 4’ beds, 2 rows of Potatoes can be planted, with 10” spaced between each plant.

Potatoes yield about 3-5# per plant.

Beauregard Sweet Potatoes
$1.10
90 Days
Planting (Harvest): 5/30 (8/28)

“Dark red-orange skin with moist, sweet, orange flesh. Early, widely adapted, and produces a high percentage of marketable roots. Excellent choice for cool season areas.”

Russet Potato
$1.10 / Plant
Early-Season (85 - 100 Days)
Planting (Harvest): 4/18 (7/27) Field curing adds time

“Russet potatoes are large, long, and cylindrical with the appearance of being slightly flattened. The fine, sandpaper-textured, outer skin is brown with shallow eyes. Its inner flesh is white, firm, and floury and when cooked, becomes fluffy and light with a smooth, buttery flavor.”

Yukon Gold Potato
$1.10 / Plant
Mid-Season (85-90 Days)
Planting (Harvest): 4/18 (8/1) Field curing adds time

“Yukon Gold potatoes are round to oblong and slightly flattened tubers. The smooth, golden yellow-brown skin is eye free and is speckled with brown spots. The inner flesh is moist, yellow and waxy. When cooked, the Yukon Gold takes on a creamy consistency with a rich, buttery flavor.”

Katahdin Potato
$1.10 / Plant
Mid-Season (90-100 Days)
Planting (Harvest): 4/18 (8/6) Field curing adds time

“Grow heavy-yields of drought-resistant heirloom potatoes that have excellent storage ability and are great for steaming, boiling, mashing or baking. This white-flesh, buff-skin potato has a flat-round shape and matures late in the season.”

Reba Potato
$1.10 / Plant
Late-Season
Planting (Harvest): 4/18 (8/21) Field curing adds time

“A superior, multipurpose variety offering high yields of large, buff skinned potatoes with delicious white flesh. Vigorous plants that withstand pest pressure produce attractive firm and smooth tubers. A go-to for taste and dependability, Reba is suitable for roasting, boiling or baking and makes stellar mashed potatoes. An excellent storage variety.”