On the advice of many, I purchased potato "seeds", which are potatoes produced specifically for crops. They have been inspected at a state level, and from what I've heard have been treated with a coating to prevent diseases and also aide in product yield (??). Store bought cooking potatoes have some sort of growth inhibitor to prevent the eyes from sprouting too quickly. I purchased the seed potatoes and cut them into quarters, each quarter having at least one eye on it (this is where the tubers grow from). I planted ours in mid-April and I just started harvesting them this past week.

This past spring I checked all around for pricing. The Home Centers were crazy expensive, and the mail order had shipping fees. As Dave mentioned, the best prices were in 2 of my locally owned places. The first was a locally-owned hardware store, the second was our local Farmer's Coop. They were both extremely reasonable in their prices. The Coop had the best price... I think it was .50 per pound. If there was a downside, it was that they only had 3 varieties... Red Pontiac, Yukon Gold, and Kennebec. I got half a lb. of Yukons, and a half lb. of Kennebecs. I cut each seed potato into pieces, leaving 2 'eyes' per piece, and planted about a 20' row. The return for that 50 cents is great! I'll be using the smaller potatoes from the spring harvest for a fall crop. I haven't tried it before, so we'll see how it goes.

Well, CC, I didn't want to answer because the probable answer is something got mixed up along the way....and it happened to me, too, and I do not really want to admit that. The potato plants we grow from seed potatoes are clones of the original seed potato and should be the same color, taste, general shape, etc. They should NOT be a different color. So here's my story: I'm sure I bought Red Norlands, sure they had red skins, sure I know where I planted that variety, labeled them from day 1. Also marked the name on my garden map...and then they were not red when I dug them?!? I feel that somewhere along the line I must have missed something because I can't believe that a red skinned seed potato would produce other colored potatoes. I'd guess both of us had something going on that was not what we thought we saw. Maybe I had really soil covered seed potatoes and they only looked reddish under the dirt, maybe I grabbed the wrong bag when I planted that spot, or maybe someone snuck in and dug out the originals and replaced them with something else just to mess with me...hey gotta have one guess that lets me off the hook. Yours look like they grew well. I bet they will taste good, too. We've been enjoying ours. But they were not ready for harvest as early as Red Norlands, and that was a big reason I planted some of that variety.

So I bought certified sea potatoes and I am growing potatoes. Can I use some of those potatoes for seed potatoes for fall and next spring? I am worried about getting different potatoes or disease