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Sustainable Living => Gardening => Topic started by: LogicalBee on March 27, 2015, 12:45:40 am

Title: Seed Potatoes
Post by: LogicalBee on March 27, 2015, 12:45:40 am: What the heck is the difference between the "seed potatoes" they sell in the garden center vs the potatoes you can buy at the grocery store to eat?
Title: Re: Seed Potatoes
Post by: brooksbeefarm on March 27, 2015, 08:49:39 am: The ones you buy at the super market are treated with something? to keep them from sprouting. Jack
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Post by: Jen on March 27, 2015, 12:28:38 pm: Good question Logic :)

Jack... YUK!
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Post by: Ray4852 on March 27, 2015, 12:56:26 pm: I agree with Jack. If you want organic seeds buy them from the Amish. Some nursery’s in your area might have organic seeds too. Look around
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Post by: Jen on March 27, 2015, 01:29:42 pm: Will the Amish ship those seed potatos?
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Post by: Ray4852 on March 27, 2015, 01:42:50 pm: Jen I dont know.
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Post by: Ray4852 on March 27, 2015, 01:55:19 pm: http://www.groworganic.com/seeds/seed-potatoes.html

http://www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-potatoes.html

https://www.woodprairie.com/category/certified-organic-seed-potatoes

http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Organic-Seed-Potatoes-Potato/dp/B007JP2LPQ

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Yukon_Gold_Organic_Potatoes/seed_potatoes

http://www.michaelandjudystouffer.com/judy/organic/potatoes.htm
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Post by: Jen on March 27, 2015, 04:17:05 pm: Thanks Ray!
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Post by: Slowmodem on March 27, 2015, 10:52:41 pm: Quote from: brooksbeefarm on March 27, 2015, 08:49:39 am
The ones you buy at the super market are treated with something? to keep them from sprouting. Jack

The taters I get from the Pig and onions from Kroger sprout if not used in time. Maybe you just eat yours too fast! ;D
Title: Re: Seed Potatoes
Post by: Newbee on March 28, 2015, 01:12:21 pm: I believe the age has something to do with it to. Spuds picked for consumption are harvested at a different age than those meant for seed.

- K
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Post by: brooksbeefarm on March 28, 2015, 05:14:32 pm: We always (well most always ;D) have potato's left over to plant the next year. the ones we have now have sprouts about a foot long :o. I'll just break them off and throw them in the hole and cover them, i can't see any difference from the seed potato's you buy as far as production? seem like i read or was told that they run the store bought for eating through lye water to retire the sprouting? Jack
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Post by: LazyBkpr on April 07, 2015, 04:13:19 pm: Last time I raised potatoes, I cut them up, leaving an eye or sprout on each "plug" and planted them in hills.. A lot of work considering the price of a bag of taters, so i usually buy them.
Title: Re: Seed Potatoes
Post by: Retroguy on July 07, 2015, 12:35:26 am: Came across this post a little late but Lazy, I think you're right. Personally, I never cared for raising spuds because I hate hoes and I hate hilling potatoes. That and the fact that after all the work, I'd spot some guy in a pickup sitting by the roadside selling them for $3.00 / Cwt sack. $12.00 for enough spuds to last the winter seemed much more reasonable to me than all that work. Mind you, that was the price when I was a kid.

Also, I've always got some potatoes from the store that are sprouting in the spring. Never had a problem getting to come up. But I can't seem to find my hoe so the weeds usually outgrow them.