How Many Potatoes per bag?
Typically you will receive 6-10 potatoes per kg for our Early Season Varieties. Larger potatoes can be cut as long as there are at least 3 eyes on each cut piece. With cutting you can expect to plant 14-16 individual “hills”.
Early Season Varieties should be ready to harvest 50-70 days after planting.
Keep an Eye on the Size!
It is a good idea to take a peak under the hills if you want to harvest small potatoes from early season varieties. If you leave these guys too long you may end up with softball sized tubers when left to grow too long.
CaribeUnfortunately we will do not have any Caribe for the 2017 growing season. We are in the process of multiplying up a new lot and hope be selling it again in 2018. Caribe is a high yielding oblong potato. Excellent storage qualities and great for boiling.
CarltonCarlton is a variety that was developed in Canada in the early 1980’s and is one of our earliest maturing varieties. As with many early season potatoes, the plants will generally set less than 8 potatoes and can grow quite large when left in the ground until late in the season.
EramosaSold Out 2017 – Eramosa is our only early white variety this year and produces a reasonably high yield for an early season potato. Eramosa was originally selected right here in Canada at the Guelph Potato Program in 1970. Great for boiling baking.
NorlandSold out for 2017 -Smooth red skin, shallow eyes white flesh. No internal defects, few irregular tubers. Some resistance to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf)
Pacific RussetSold Out for 2017 – (Recommended Replacement Gold Rush) 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.
Rode EerstellingA new addition to our selection of heritage potatoes. Rode Eersteling is an average yielding potato with a pale yellow flesh.
SieglindeA very smooth light yellow potato with very thin skin. The flesh is firm and great for storing through the winter. An excellent potato for roasting and boiling. This Variety dates back to the 1930's and originates from Austria.
WarbaUnfortunately we do not have any Warba for sale this year and it will be a few years before we will have them for sale again. Round tubers, buff skin, reddish areas around deep eyes, white flesh. Good yielding potato suitable for boiling or baking. Warba was bred in 1927 in the United States.
