Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes

Ealge Creek Seed Potatoes

2010 Catalogue

Fingerling Potatoes
Early Varieties
Mid Season Varieties
Late Season Varieties
Seed Garlic
Merchandise
Indicates Heritage Varieties

We would love to supply your Market Garden, Garden Centre or Bulk Potato needs with our large selection of Specialty Seed Potatoes.

french fingerling Please e-mail judy@seedpotatoes.ca for ordering information and pricing

Our Bulk package size is a 14kg bag available in all the varieties listed below. Potatoes are shipped via Canada Post for orders up to 8 - 10 bags or via Courier for full or part pallets to all provinces in Canada.

We also offer a 1kg & 2kg package for retail sales of the following varieties.
Lindzer Deleketess, French Fingerling, Eramosa, Caribe & Russian Blue

Fingerling Varieties

Banana

A late maturing variety with generally, small banana shaped tubers, covered with light yellow skin containing pale yellow flesh. The waxy texture holds the tuber together for fabulous potato for salads. Very high set can be expected. Moderately resistant to common scab.

French Fingerling

Late maturing oblong tubers with a red skin and light yellow flesh. This variety has drawn by far and away the largest number and most favorable comments from last years customers. It has the waxy texture characteristic of most fingerling varieties. It grows well and sets fairly heavy.

Lindzer Deleketess

The Lindzer is an early-maturing and another waxy potato most popular for boiling or making salads. Potatoes are small & oval with yellow skin.

Peanut Fingerling

The peanut fingerling has a very distinctively yellow flesh. It will hold its firm texture making it another ideal salad potato. One of the earliest fingerlings.

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Early Season Potatoes

Carlton

Carlton

Oval shape, creamy white flesh, buff skin. An old standby for early potatoes. Harvest early to prevent oversized tubers.

Caribe

Caribe

Caribe is a high yielding oblong potatoes. Excellent storage qualities and great for boiling.

Norland

Smooth red skin, shallow eyes white flesh. No internal defects, few irregular tubers. Some resistance to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf)

Eramosa

White skin and flesh. Smooth skin and shallow eyes. Rated as moderately resistant to common scab. Responds well to green sprouting.

Pacific Russet

Newly released russet skin white flesh, very shallow eyes. Good yield uniform size. Great boiled or baked. Rated very high in Ontario industry trials for yield and uniformity.

Warba

Round tubers, buff skin, reddish areas around deep eyes, white flesh. Good yielding potato suitable for boiling or baking.

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Mid Season Potatoes

Agria

Light yellow skin, dark yellow flesh, shallow eyes. High yielding variety, large tubers. Excellent baker good boiled or fried.

Cherry Red

Oval smooth red skin with white flesh. Moderate resistance to rhizoctonia (black scurf). Attractive potato with good storability. Excellent for baking or boiling.

Chieftain

Oval to oblong tubers with bright red skin. Shallow eyes with white flesh. Great boiled and for home fries. Rated as moderately resistant to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf).

Alaska Sweetheart

Interesting pink colouring inside this tuber. Developed in Alaska, it is great fro cooler climates. Be sure to get it in early as it is a later mid season variety.

Purple Viking

Round, purple skin, shallow eyed tubers. This is a very popular purple cousin to the Viking. Tubers can get quite large. We enjoy this moist flesh potato baked or boiled. Displays some resistance to scab.

Red Gold

Slightly pinkish moist flesh texture, red gold has a moderate resistance to scab. Used for boiling and baking

Dakota Pearl

One of this potatoes best uses is in making hips with its pale yellow skin and white flesh. Dakota Pearl also has a good resistance to scab

Roko

Oval potatoes with bright red skin and white flesh. Roko has a unique quality of producing high yields with uniform potatoes. Also excellent for over winter storage.

Sangre

Oval to oblong tubers, dark red skin, shallow eyes, with white flesh. Has a very low incidence of internal defects such as hollow heart and is rated as high in Vitamin C. A good storage potato that is suitable for boiling and baking.

Shepody

Long tubers, white skin, white moist flesh medium deep eyes. Excellent tasting potato. Excellent for boiling, baking or french fries. Some resistance to rhizoctonia (black scurf)

Viking

Round to oblong smooth light red skin, shallow eyes white flesh. Very tasty potato. Like its cousin has some resistance to scab.

Yukon Gold

Oval, slightly flattened tubers, yellow, skin light yellow flesh. Tubers can grow quite large and store well. Good for boiling baking and frying. Plants look similar to a tomato plant.

Kennebec

This is a high producing potato with yellow skin and white flesh. It shores extremely well and is great boiled, baked or fried.

Provento

Yellow Skin and yellow flesh this potato is either baked or boiled. Provento is a very heavy setting potato with a firm texture, but may be susceptible to scab.

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Late Season Potatoes

German Butterball

Fantastic buttery flavor in these oval heirloom potatoes. Great for eating fresh or for storing throughout the winter. This is our first year with the German Butterball, yet it has been a gardeners favorite for many years.

Blue Mac

Blue Mac is our smallest purple skin white-fleshed potato. Great either boiled or baked. These tubers are also resistant to potato wart

Russian Blue

This late maturing, dark blue skin and flesh variety has round to oblong tubers. A very heavy setting, large plant that should be spaced at 12 inches or more in an effort to get it to maturity by fall. The flavor is remarkably normal for such a distinctively visual variety.

Lady Rosetta

This round red skin potato has shallow eyes and cream colored flesh. It has some resistance to scab. It is good for boiling or baking.

Russet Burbank (Netted Gem)

(Netted Gem) Long cylindrical tubers with white flesh, heavy netted russet skin. Very good storage, good all purpose potato.

All Red

Round tubers that are rated as medium to late maturity. This potato has a good yield with red skinned and distinctive red flesh tubers that maintain their color after cooking. It has an excellent flavor and a moist texture.

Green Mountain

All round fantastic potato for home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking and boiling.

Desiree

Long to oval smooth red skinned potato with pale yellow flesh. Good storage potato suitable for boiling. Resists internal defects such as hollow heart.

Bintje

Pale yellow skin on a long oval tuber with a yellow flesh. Heavy setting, the thick skin makes this a good storage potato. Excellent all purpose potato with fairly dry texture.

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