Some of the potatoes were large and some were small. I just left them out on my workbench in the garage for a couple of weeks. My goal is to always have them planted sometime around Valentine's Day. It's easy to remember. In our growing zone the planting range is from January 20th - February 28th.
Seed Potatoes |
Yukon Gold eyes |
And the Lasoda Red potatoes:
Ready to start growing |
Now for smaller potatoes, you can certainly plant them whole. If the potatoes are bigger than the size of a golf ball, I like to cut them so that each section has an eye. Sometimes, I can get up to four pieces off of a potato, but most of the time I'll get three. Each one of these will produce its own plant.
This potato will yield three separate plants and hopefully many potatoes |
Once I was finished cutting them, I laid them on trays. The ten pounds of Lasoda Red Potatoes yielded 128 separate pieces and the five pounds of Yukon Gold yielded 40 separate pieces. If my math is right, that will give us 168 potato plants if they all grow! I will let these sit in the trays for 3 days until the cut edges have scabbed over. Then they'll be ready to put in the ground - hopefully this weekend.
Trays of cut potatoes |
Oh, one more thing. We also saved some seed potatoes from our own crop. You can see them all sprouted below. They aren't very pretty, but they'll produce good potatoes.
Our own seed potatoes |
I can't wait to get these all in the ground!
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