PREPARING SEED POTATOES TIPS
If you growing potato in area with short springs and hot summers then use fthe early and midseason varieties potatoes seed three to four weeks before last spring day with frost.
For area with long springs and hot summers take potatoes seed of early and midseason varieties three to four weeks before your last spring frost date. If you plant late-maturing varieties in early summer they will mature in the cooler fall. For area with cool summers, use potatoes seed for planting early, midseason and late varieties two to three weeks before your last spring frost date.
Specialists suggest that only certified disease-resistant seed potatoes have been treated. But if you see stores interesting-looking potatoes you can try to plant in on your field.
If you like taste of the potatoes than save a couple and use them as seed potatoes in the spring. So you can be sure that potatoes are free from diseases.
In rural areas, farm supply stores sell seed potatoes of varieties known to produce well under local conditions.
Get an earlier crop by presprouting your seed potatoes indoors. Presprouted seed pieces will mature up to a month ahead of seed pieces bearing dormant eyes.
Five weeks or so before planting, spread out your seed potatoes in a single layer in a warm, well-lit room, and wait for them to sprout from the eyes. You should careful when handling them as presprouted potatoes are fragile.
Large sprouts that break off of the parent potato often will grow when planted in moist soil.
March 14th, 2010 at 11:55 am
i need some tips to grow new seed of potato