The promise of the next growing season is held within our seed potatoes. Seed potatoes are very bulky and they arrive by the tractor trailer load. When two shipments arrive at the same time it can be quite hectic. The seed potatoes are unloaded one box at a time and stored until we are ready to plant potatoes. It takes about an hour to unload one truck.
One of the most common questions we are asked is “Why don’t you just plant your own potatoes?” There are several reasons actually. Growing seed potatoes is an entirely different industry than growing table stock potatoes. First of all, we don’t have room to store the seed potatoes over the winter that we would need to plant all our fields. Secondly, the seeds we buy come certified to be disease free. And lastly, there is very little chance of cross contamination of varieties when we purchase them from a certified grower. There would be nothing worse than planting a field only to realize that there were several different varieties of seeds mixed together.
Be sure to visit our photo gallery for additional pictures about growing potatoes.
One of the most common questions we are asked is “Why don’t you just plant your own potatoes?” There are several reasons actually. Growing seed potatoes is an entirely different industry than growing table stock potatoes. First of all, we don’t have room to store the seed potatoes over the winter that we would need to plant all our fields. Secondly, the seeds we buy come certified to be disease free. And lastly, there is very little chance of cross contamination of varieties when we purchase them from a certified grower. There would be nothing worse than planting a field only to realize that there were several different varieties of seeds mixed together.
Be sure to visit our photo gallery for additional pictures about growing potatoes.
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