2018 Seed Potato Catalogue
Select from our huge selection of Seed Potatoes for planting in your home garden this spring
Amazing Flavour & Waxy Texture
These varieties not only have a unique flavour, but also a unique shape, long and skinny (finger shaped).
Roasting, BBQ’d and Soups are among their best uses.
Linzer Delikatess would be classified as a mid season potato with French Fingerling and Banana, late season varieties and Pink Fir Apple our longest season variety.
Typically you will receive 12-16 potatoes per kg
AmaRosaSold Out 2018 - AmaRosa is a mid-season fingerling potato with a smooth bright red skin, and deep red flesh. These creamy nutritious fingerlings are great for baking, roasting, and grilling. AmaRosa also make fantastically colorful potato chips as they retain their bright red olor when fried.
BananaUnavailable for 2018 shipping – 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.
BellanitaSold Out 2018 Bellanita Potatoes is an early, small-sized salad variety producing 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 has an excellent taste.
French FingerlingLate 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.
Linzer DelikatessSold Out 2018 -The Linzer is an early-maturing and another waxy potato most popular for boiling or making salads. Potatoes are small & oval with yellow skin. Linzer Delikatess is one of our top selling potatoes to home and market gardeners
Mixed Fingerling BagSold Out 2018 - The Mixed Fingerling Bag contains French Fingerling, Linzer Delikatess, Banana & Pink Fir Apple. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety
Pink Fir AppleGrown for over 100 years, this fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink- skinned tubers. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also boiled & baked. These are our most expensive per kilogram potato that we sell, however as with all our fingerling potatoes you will receive substantially more potatoes per kilogram. Typically with this variety you will receive 14-18 potatoes per kilogram.
Too many varieties to Choose from? Keep it simple and try one of our mixed bags!
Don’t restrict yourself to just one variety, choose one or more of our Variety Bags of potatoes and be the talk of your neighborhood by mixing things up with collections from our huge selection of potatoes. We have added 2 new Variety Bags this year including our Container & Tower Mix and Scab Resistant Mix of potatoes.
2018 CollectionWe created this collection in response to our shortage of many popular varieties. We have put together a collection of a red skin white flesh early season variety (Eric), a red skin yellow flesh mid season (Ruby Gold), the yellow skin and yellow fleshed late season (German Butterball) and a mid season white potato (Dakota Pearl) So in this mix you can compare the different tastes of varying flesh colours, with a consistent supply of potatoes through the season with early mid and late maturing varieties. Eric Ruby Gold German Butterball Dakota Pearl
Container & Tower Garden Mix PackSold Out 2018 - Growing in containers and tower gardens is becoming more popular and is a great way of conserving space in small gardens while still being able to enjoy the space hungry potato plants. Not all types of potatoes are suited for container growing, typically fingerling and late season varieties yield best. Linzer Delikatess, Pink Fir Apple, Russian Blue & German Butterball are the 4 varieties in this package. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety
Farmer John’s CollectionThese are my favorite 4 varieties of what we have left in stock for 2018 planting. Dakota Pear (white flesh) is a mid season variety great for making potato chips & boiling. Red Gold is a mid season red skin, white fleshed potato which produces loads of small to medium sized tubers. German Butterball is one of my favorite tasting potatoes, it also yields extremely high and produces small to medium sized potatoes. French Fingerling is great roasted and used in soups & scallop potato dishes. German Butterball French Fingerling Dakota Pearl Red Gold
Gardeners FavoriteSold Out 2018 We have combined a selection of out top 4 selling potatoes from last season in this mix. Linzer Delikatess, German Butterball, Roko & Red Gold. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety.
Heritage Variety PackSold Out 2018 We are proud of our growing selection of Heritage varieties, those which have been grown for more than 50 years. These four varieties are our top selling heritage varieties, Russian Blue, Bintje, Pink Fir Apple & Rode Eerstelling. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety
- Mixed Fingerling BagSold Out 2018 - The Mixed Fingerling Bag contains French Fingerling, Linzer Delikatess, Banana & Pink Fir Apple. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety
Mixed Flesh Colour PackIf your a fan of colour, these potatoes are for you. French Fingerling & Candy Cane grow with red stripes in their flesh. All Red, is more pink than red but interesting none the less & Blue Mac has a Purple skin & yellow flesh. French Fingerling Candy Cane All Red Blue Mac
Mixed Red CollectionIf your a fan of red potatoes, this mixed package is for you.. There are 2 standard red skinned, white fleshed potatoes (Norland & Sangre) along with 2 red skinned yellow fleshed varieties (Red Gold & Desiree) Norland Red Gold Sangre Desiree- Mixed Season BagEarly - Sieglinde Mid - Agria Mid - Chieftain Late - Desiree Sold Out - 2018 The easiest way of spreading out your harvest is by planting potatoes that mature at different times, in this package we have chosen a selection of early, mid & late maturing varieties for you. The 4 pack will have one of each potato variety & the 16 pack will have four of each variety.
Scab Resistant BagSold Out 2018 - Norland, Gold Rush(Russet), Chieftain, Provento. Scab can be an issue in most parts of Canada & the easiest way to avoid scab is by selecting varieties that have resistant traits. Although we can not guarantee scab free potatoes, we are confident your scab issues will be much less when growing these varieties.
Early Season Varieties
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.
Alta BlushSold Out 2018 ‘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 favourite for mashing, but they don’t mash well until late September.”- BellanitaSold Out 2018 Bellanita Potatoes is an early, small-sized salad variety producing 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 has an excellent taste.
CaribeCaribe is a high yielding oblong potato with a 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 season for harvest. 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.
EramosaEramosa 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.- Linzer DelikatessSold Out 2018 -The Linzer is an early-maturing and another waxy potato most popular for boiling or making salads. Potatoes are small & oval with yellow skin. Linzer Delikatess is one of our top selling potatoes to home and market gardeners
NorlandSold Out 2018 -Smooth red skin, shallow eyes white flesh. No internal defects, few irregular tubers. Some resistance to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf)
Pacific RussetSold Out 2018 - 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.
SieglindeSold Out 2018 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.
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.
Mid Season
Many of our tastiest potatoes fall into this category with these potatoes typically maturing within 70-90 days. Mid season varieties will produce more potatoes than Early Season potatoes and typically do not get as large.
Potato Towers & Containers
Many Mid, Late & Fingerling Varieties work great in tower and container growing. Especially in Tower growing methods when soil is continually added through early stages of growth, these varieties have the ability to continually produce potatoes due to their indeterminate growing habits.
Yellow Flesh & Flavour
Some of our best tasting potatoes are our mid season yellow fleshed varieties. There is something about the yellow flesh that results in a rich, sometimes buttery flavour. Common in Europe for decades, yellow fleshed potatoes are beginning to increase in popularity in North America, for one main reason. They taste great.
AgriaSold Out 2018 - Light yellow skin with a flavourable dark yellow flesh, shallow eyes. High yielding variety, large tubers. Excellent baker good boiled or fried.
ArizonaSold Out 2018 - Arizona produces exceptionally high yields of large, uniform tubers. Has smooth yellow skin and light-yellow flesh, grows in almost all soil types, and has great heat tolerance. Moderately susceptible to scab
BridgetGood yielding medium early, white fleshed great for fresh cut french fries. Fairly big, uniformly-sized long oval tubers with shallow eyes. Yields high in most soil types.- Candy CaneCandy Cane has a mottled ring of red under the skin. The amount of red depends on the growing season. It is a oblong potato with a slight sweet flavour.
Cherry RedSold Out - 2018 Oval smooth red skin with white flesh. Moderate resistance to rhizoctonia (black scurf). Attractive potato with good storability. Excellent for baking or boiling.
ChieftainSold Out - 2018 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)
CitadelSold Out 2018 Citadel is a high-yielding, high-setting variety with superior skin finish. Tubers are round-oval in shape with waxy yellow skin, yellow flesh, and shallow eyes. Citadel has exceptional taste and firm cooking qualities.
Dakota PearlOne of the best uses for this potato is making chips. It has a pale yellow skin and white flesh. Dakota Pearl also has a good resistance to scab. Also a great storage potato.
EricCrisp white flesh mid season variety. Potatoes can grow quite large with a medium set Good for chipping and boiling. Mild resistance to scab.
Gold RushSold Out 2018 - Gold Rush is a great alternative to Russet Burbank which has been a staple in many gardens for years. Gold Rush is an early maturing russet variety, great for boiling and baking.
KennebecThis is a high producing potato with yellow skin and white flesh. It stores extremely well and is great boiled, baked or fried.
MilvaSold Out 2018 - Milva has shown to out perform many standard yellow fleshed varieties when grown organically. They show great resistance against late blight and do not have a high soil nitrogen requirement. The potatoes have a waxy texture making them great for boiling, salads & roasting.
NicolaSold Out 2018 - Long to oval shape with a rich yellow skin and yellow waxy flesh. Excellent as a salad or boiling potato, wonderful for mash. Also excellent for baked potato dishes and roasting. Originally from West Germany, now widely grown around the world. Nicola is also an excellent storage potato with a strong skin which helps protect it from bruising & scab.
Proventosold out 2018 -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.
Purple VikingSold Out 2018 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 GoldSlightly pinkish moist flesh texture, red gold has a moderate resistance to scab. Used for boiling and baking.
RokoOval 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.- Ruby GoldSmooth red skin on oblong to round sometimes netted tubers with medium deep eyes and light yellow flesh. Good storability. For best cooking results harvest tubers when mature, as late in the season as possible when the skins are well set.
SangreSold Out 2018 - 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.
Shepodysold out 2018 - 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)
Vikingsold out 2018 - Viking has a red skin and white flesh. The plants have a reasonable resistance to drought and moderate resistance to scab. Great for early boiling of baby potatoes & baking.
Yukon GoldSold Out 2018 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.
Green Sprouting
This is an easy technique to get a head start on the growing season, excellent for advancing harvest of early potatoes an ensuring late season varieties will mature in your region. The key is to sprout your potatoes in a well lit room or greenhouse which will form nice green leaves ready to start growing when you put your potatoes in the ground. More information can be found on our growing tips page.
All BlueSold Out -Records of All Blue date back to the late 1800’s, however some claim it to be genetically identical to Russian Blue. With that said anecdotal evidence states otherwise, please let us know what you find in your gardens. Blue potatoes are great roasted, steamed, mashed and sauteed. Similar to the Russian Blue, it […]
All RedRound 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.- AmaRosaSold Out 2018 - AmaRosa is a mid-season fingerling potato with a smooth bright red skin, and deep red flesh. These creamy nutritious fingerlings are great for baking, roasting, and grilling. AmaRosa also make fantastically colorful potato chips as they retain their bright red olor when fried.
BintjeSold Out 2018 - Originating in 1910, bintje has a 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.
Blue MacBlue Mac is our smallest purple skin white-fleshed potato. Great either boiled or baked. These tubers are also resistant to potato wart. This potato was bred in Newfoundland by Agriculutre Canada Back in the 1970's
DesireeLong to oval smooth red skinned potato with pale yellow flesh. Good storage potato suitable for boiling. Resists internal defects such as hollow heart.- French FingerlingLate 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.
- German ButterballSold out 2018 -Fantastic buttery flavor in these oval heirloom potatoes. Great for eating fresh or for storing throughout the winter. Since introducing German Butterballs to our selection it has grown to one of the most popular varieties we offer.
Green MountainHeritage Variety - All round fantastic potato for home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking and boiling.
Irish CobblerHistorical records indicate Irish Cobbler has been grown since the late 1800’s. Has some susceptibility to scab. Mainly used as a boiled or baked potato.- Pink Fir AppleGrown for over 100 years, this fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink- skinned tubers. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also boiled & baked. These are our most expensive per kilogram potato that we sell, however as with all our fingerling potatoes you will receive substantially more potatoes per kilogram. Typically with this variety you will receive 14-18 potatoes per kilogram.
Russet BurbankDates back to 1874 – (Netted Gem) Long cylindrical tubers with white flesh, heavy netted russet skin. Very good storage, good all purpose potato.
Russian BlueSold Out 2018 - 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.
Potatoes are Tough
I enjoy potatoes as they are relatively easy to grow. Although it is not necessary to use these supplies, however these fertilizers can increase yield and plant heath, the row cover can give a jump-start on growth in early spring & the irrigation system can help mitigate the effects of Canada’s wild climate.
Heritage Varieties
There are different definitions of a Heritage or Heirloom variety. For those purists, there are very few plants in the world that date back thousands of years in the case of potatoes, the oldest we grow dates back to the early 1800’s.
For this listing, we have only listed varieties that originate prior to 1950.
Each year we strive to source more Heritage varieties, however, there are only a limited number available in Canadian Gene Banks where all the seed potato stock material is stored.
- All BlueSold Out -Records of All Blue date back to the late 1800’s, however some claim it to be genetically identical to Russian Blue. With that said anecdotal evidence states otherwise, please let us know what you find in your gardens. Blue potatoes are great roasted, steamed, mashed and sauteed. Similar to the Russian Blue, it […]
- BananaUnavailable for 2018 shipping – 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.
- BintjeSold Out 2018 - Originating in 1910, bintje has a 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.
- French FingerlingLate 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.
- German ButterballSold out 2018 -Fantastic buttery flavor in these oval heirloom potatoes. Great for eating fresh or for storing throughout the winter. Since introducing German Butterballs to our selection it has grown to one of the most popular varieties we offer.
- Green MountainHeritage Variety - All round fantastic potato for home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking and boiling.
- KennebecThis is a high producing potato with yellow skin and white flesh. It stores extremely well and is great boiled, baked or fried.
- Pink Fir AppleGrown for over 100 years, this fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink- skinned tubers. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also boiled & baked. These are our most expensive per kilogram potato that we sell, however as with all our fingerling potatoes you will receive substantially more potatoes per kilogram. Typically with this variety you will receive 14-18 potatoes per kilogram.
- Rode EerstellingA new addition to our selection of heritage potatoes. Rode Eersteling is an average yielding potato with a pale yellow flesh.
- Russet BurbankDates back to 1874 – (Netted Gem) Long cylindrical tubers with white flesh, heavy netted russet skin. Very good storage, good all purpose potato.
- Russian BlueSold Out 2018 - 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.
- SieglindeSold Out 2018 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.
- 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.
