Re: Potatoes

I heard that someone actually keeps small potatoes from their crop and
reuses them for seed potatoes the next year...  I wanted to do this as well,
but wasn't sure if this practice would encourage disease.  Most seed potatoe
catalogues promote that their stock is "disease free" and are "certified";
so i tend to buy new seed potato each year, rather than using seed potato
from my crop.  Any advice/thoughts on this?


-----Original Message-----
From: rosenlund <rosenlund@transport.com>
To: Veggie-List <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 8:49 PM
Subject: Potatoes


>Thanks Bill,
>
>I do recall many folks in our garden club saying they too loved Yukon
>Gold. We have a local feed store that sells this seed potato. I'll be
>sure to get some then; can't have too many potatoes. (Still reading
>up on making a spud cellar.)
>
>The other potatoes I have coming (minitubers) are Yellow Finn
>(someone said it was a parent of Yukon Gold-?)  Caribe, Nooksack,
>Peanut, Red Gold, Redsen and All Blue. Figure it will feed my big
>potato eating family for some months,  some for seed, and some to
>share with friends.
>
>Anyone know if we have problems with Colorado potato beetles here in
>the Pacific NW ?  or any other potato pests ?   Years ago (old
>home-PNW)  we would get tiny pin size worms that would dig into the
>potato flesh (Russets) about 1/4 inch deep. Can anyone tell me what
>those might have been ?
>
>Sincerely,
>~Carleen~
>Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
>Rainier, OR  zone 8
>
>
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