Re: Potatoes

I have done it both ways and have not seen any difference.  I would also be
interested in knowing how the "disease free" seed potatoes are certified and
tested.  I know many people grow potatoes successfully from store-bought
supermarket potatoes and I sometimes wonder if the often-reported
sprout-retardant treatments of these potatoes exist only in the minds of
seed potato companies.  What is the retardant that is used and where and
when in the market cycle is it applied.  How long is it effective?  -Olin

-----Original Message-----
From: Rene M. Lipshires <rene1@ibm.net>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Sunday, January 17, 1999 6:51 AM
Subject: 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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