Early Season Varieties

Not Available For 2024 - Alta Blush’ was discovered as a chance seedling in Wetaskiwin, Alberta in 1992. The exact parentage is unknown but it was developed by private potato breeder John Safroniuk of Wetaskiwin Alberta.  It has a smooth, thin skin, shallow eyes and tastes wonderful. John’ s daughter, Tracey Berg, writes. “The potato is excellent in salad, boiled, baked and roasted. It has a creamy texture.  It is by far our favorite for mashing, but they don’t mash well until late September.”

These tubers have smooth dark red skin with cream flesh and a really good flavor.  This mid-season variety has the potential for high yields with medium dormancy and is moderately scab resistant.

Not available for the 2024 growing season -   Bellanita is an early fingerling variety that is smaller in size, perfect for potato salads! This variety produces very high tuber numbers, these long tubers are consistent in shape and have an attractive yellow skin and pale yellow flesh color. The cooking type is rather firm and Bellanita is known for its excellent taste and texture.

Caribe is a high-yielding oblong potato with purple skin and white flesh. These potatoes are an early maturing variety that can grow quite large if planted early and left until the end of the season for harvest. Excellent storage qualities and great for boiling, baking, steaming, and frying.

*Newest Variety to our store* Huckleberry Gold yields round to oval medium-size tubers with purple skin and rich flavored, golden yellow flesh. Huckleberry Gold potatoes are exceptionally high in antioxidants, this great tasting potato also has a lower glycemic index than other potato varieties. These potatoes are an early/mid season maturing variety, they are also good keepers with good resistance to common scab and verticillium wilt

Carlton 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.  

Irish Cobbler Potato is an heirloom variety that dates back to the 1870s. This early-maturing potato variety makes some of the best mashed potatoes you could ever have! It also works great for potato salad and soup. Irish Cobbler Potato produces medium-sized tubers with tan skin, deep eyes, and a slightly netted skin. Plants are early to produce consistently-high yields of brick-shaped potatoes that are great for boiling or baking. This is widely considered one of the best tasting early-maturing potato varieties.

Norland has smooth red skin, shallow eyes, and white flesh. No internal defects, few irregular tubers. Some resistance to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf). Norland is a high-yielding variety, it adapts well to different soils. Sensitive to drought, susceptible to skinning and bruising if harvested before maturity. Stores well even though the dormancy period is short. Moderately resistant to common scab and rhizoctonia. 

Rode Eesteling has been a great addition to our selection of heritage potatoes. Rode is an average yielding potato with pale yellow flesh and smooth red skin. Best roasted, boiled, fried, and mashed. Rode Eesteling has moderate winter storage as well as its moderately resistance to scab.

A 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. Sieglinde produces a firm skin which makes it ideal for winter storage and shows resistance to scab. This Variety dates back to the 1930's and originates from Austria.