Growing potatoes

Potatoes varieties can be categorized by maturity class: early, mid-season, late.

Also potatoes categorized by use (baking, frying, boiling), or tuber skin characteristics (russet, smooth, or colored).

When selecting varieties take into account your growing environment, primary use, and how much you space have available to grow the potato plants.

Most garden centers and nurseries carry varieties that produce high quality, productive seed tubers adapted to local conditions.

Russet skin type: Butte, Gem Russet, Ranger Russet, Russet Burbank Smooth skin type: Chipeta, Katahdin, Kennebec, Colored: All Blue, Caribe (blue), Cranberry Red, Red Norland, Red Pontiac, Rose Finn, Viking.

For growing potatoes in your garden choose scab resistant varieties.

Here are some that we suggest to try

Estima 

This flavorful yellow potato is from the Netherlands & relatively new to Canada and USA. It is very popular because its nice flavor and and high crop. Flesh is yellow; tubers are oval and large.

Norland

This is our most popular seed potato. It has smooth red skin and creamy white flesh and is early to mature. Very high yielding – excellent for baking, boiling, stores well. Norland is a red potato that has proven itself for generations, so remains extremely popular.

Red Pontiac

If you want a red potato that performs well in clay soil, this is the one to try. Early to mid-season yields.

Plant certified stock, and rotate where you grow your potatoes every 3-4 year. Grow potatoes as a popular food crop and improve your garden soil at the same time. Potatoes are nitrogen fixing and a great crop to grow in new residential yards.