Can i plant grocery store potatoes

Thank you for the video! I had NO idea about Bud Nip!!! Last year I grew sweet potatoes from starts I grew indoors from two sweet potatoes I purchased at a local market. However, I want to try red skinned potatoes this year and will definitely buy seed potatoes! Mosaic virus?

Bacterial infections? Alien spawn? It seems logical that if the potatoes we bought in store were infected with these a some stage, then would they would obviously show signs, yet none ever do. The potatoes you buy in store always look very clean and have to conform to very strict standards. Do they do vigorous pcr analysis of sampled potatoes?

And where do these potatoes come from? The whole point of producing your own food is to be self-sufficient. Your results in the garden will be unreliable. Of course, if you grow your own potatoes one year, you can save some of them for seed for the next growing season. The problem I have with buying special seed potatoes is finding them! I cannot find them anywhere locally Southern California and ordering them online is actually much more expensive than buying potatoes locally.

They are also even hard to find online with many retailers being sold out. Maybe I waited too long, but the weather here is so mild you can basically garden year-round so I think I would be fine planting them still if I could just find some.

Anybody here have experience using actual seeds? I live in Idaho, where potatoes are grown commercially. It is illegal to plant grocery store potatoes here and in a number of other states, due to the risk of highly-contagious viral blights. Potatoes are farmed right across the road from my garden, so a blight in my garden could quickly produce crop devastation, spread by neighborhood dogs, birds, pollinators, shoes, or wind. Certified seed potatoes cost no more than grocery store spuds and they are healthy.

On the other hand, the farmer across the road is very generous at digging time. Never heard of potatoes being sprayed with inhibitors. Best way to keep them fresh is to leave the dirt on the skin.

I work in a seed potato agency. It IS best to get actual certified seed for all the reasons mentioned in the article and previous posts, especially to reduce the risk of infectious diseases. There are MANY potato seed growers in the state most of which are happy to help you find seed. This can result in a poorer yield over consecutive years.

For example: You buy potato seed, plant it, and get spuds. You save a few of those tubers for planting next year. They will probably produce just fine, but may yield less than the previous year. You save some of that crop also and replant those for another years harvest. This crop may do fine as well, but may yield less again and the plants become more prone to viral diseases. This situation has the potential to become more pronounced the more years you repeat the scenario. An FY2 notation, means that the seed you are looking at has been in soil two consecutive years.

While I appreciate all that you say, the question is how do you ever get a first generation seed potato Seed stock? Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Garden Blog , Garden Tips , Gardening. Curious what type of container Ericka plans to use this go around. There are no guarantees with potatoes you buy in the store. Planting these potatoes in your garden can introduce potato diseases to your soil, making it difficult to grow a healthy crop. If you don't already have some accidentally sprouted potatoes, put two or three samples from your favorite varieties in a basket and place it in a cool, dark place.

Try storing them in a cupboard underneath the sink, or in a dark corner of the basement. Check the potatoes after about two weeks, and pull them out to use once the sprouts begin to grow. This is a process that Mother Earth News says is called chitting, and it basically means encouraging your potatoes to sprout rather than waiting for them to sprout on their own or buying seed potatoes.

Planting one whole large potato would be a waste, as each "eye" or sprout can grow into its own plant. Cut the potatoes into chunks with one or two eyes in each. Set the chunks overnight on a layer of paper towels to allow the cut sides to dry a bit before planting. This will help eliminate the potato pieces from rotting in the ground after they are planted. The University of Illinois Extension explains that seed potatoes may be small whole potatoes or potatoes that are cut into golf ball-size pieces.

When is the best time to plant potatoes? AND, could you not just put potting soil in the cardboard box? Thanks gtippitt, that box method is a good idea. Just wondering when you say "vines" are you talking about sweet potatoes? Store bought potatoes are more likely to have potato diseases then ones grown for planting. Would it be the potato blight? I prefer not to take the chance of contaminating my garden. If it works for you the potatoes will grow.

They may not be as good to grow because they were bred to grow the way the grocery stores want them. Despite this, it is your choice. Also, I think I will try the cardboard box idea this year. It sounds amazing. I hope that you enjoy your homegrown potatoes. Store bought potatoes have growth retardant in them? Then we eat them? They're trying to kill us. Yes when you buy bread from a fresh bakery and see how quickly it deteriorates and begins having mold, you get a better understanding for all the preservatives we eat all the time.

That's why some people want more organic foods or foods that they grow on their own. Even though each eye could be a new plant by itself, but I like the plant to have whatever nutrition it can get from the potato while it begins its new life. I've been giving them away all spring This is what happens when the dear spouse keeps buying potatoes.

Sweet potatoes will also sprout and can be planted. They were tougher, but eventually I got a good organic set that is currently sprouting white roots into water.

Maybe they're directional beasts?!!! It was only for one season and I never did it again as space is limited and there are other plants that I prefer to grow. The part of the potato plant that we eat is not a root. It is an "edible Tuber" according to Wikipedia.

Here is an article by someone who found that the growth retardant used on sweet potatoes is neutralized by Ascorbic Acid Vitamin C. This might work on white potatoes too. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren.

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