Vermont Valley Potato Seed Varieties

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Variety	Description	Delivery Options Farm Pickup Pickup at the farm for the lowest prices. This keeps your seed in ideal storage conditions until you are ready for them! We recommend you come to the farm. Last pickup day is April 24th. We shut down the potato storage control systems at this point, please note, seed quality will decline. Northern Illinois Pick-Up Site This site is located at the Green Earth Institute in Naperville, IL; a Chicago western suburb. See their website for directions to the farm, www.greenearthinstitute.org • Delivery is in late March, weather dependent. • You agree to arrive at the site for pickup at the designated time and day. Mailed Orders You pay a handling charge plus postage. Please contact us when ordering and we will calculate the postage due. The risk of freezing during transport has to pass before we will mail the packages. Deferred Payment Option We offer a deferred payment option as follows: 1⁄2 payment with the order, and the other 1⁄2 payment included with the order but the check postdated to March 1. This way you can defer the impact on your cash flow, but we know what is sold and paid for. The postdated check must accompany the order to reserve the potato seed.
Kennebec	A great baker sized potato. White flesh and skin. Capable of high yields and large spuds. Excellent flavor. Hill it well to keep the big spuds from sticking out of the hill.
Goldrush Russet	A russet with flavor. Uniform size and shape. Plant these at wider spacing (12-15 inches). Minimize the number of eyes per seed piece to get the larger bakers.
French Fingerling	Very attractive pink skin/yellow flesh variety. Extra-high value in the market place. We plant at 12 inch spacing and get high yields of good sized fingerlings, even a few baker sized. Aggressive plant growth smothers those late weeds. Very resistant to leafhopper feeding. We like this variety for yield, taste and growth characteristics. Our CSA members rave about its flavor.
Adirondack Red	A red skin and streaked to solid red flesh. We are impressed with its aggressive growth habit and yield. This is a full size potato, similar to Carola in yield and size out. Both Adirondack varieties were developed at Cornell.
Carola - Sold Out	This is our favorite yellow flesh/yellow skin variety. Plant Carola at wider spacing (10-12 inches), narrow spacing gives all small size potatoes. A moist flavorful potato without some of the production problems of Yukon Gold.
Red Pontiac	A red that sizes up to large potatoes with deep eyes. It matures later than Dark Red Norland and can yield better; holds well in storage.
Adirondack Blue - Sold Out	A dark blue skin and blue streaked to solid blue flesh. Impressive yields of large potatoes, sizes almost like Kennebec.
Yukon Gold	Yellow flesh/yellow skin potato. Stores well. We plant at 6 inches for the highest yields and still get large tubers. A caution with this variety; excessive rapid growth with the Yukon Gold results in hollow heart. If you have had hollow heart problems, increase planting density (4-6 inches), or decrease fertility, and always maintain uniform water levels.
Dark Red Norland	The organic grower’s choice for the early red. Excellent flavor. Red skin and white flesh. Produces both boiler and baker size spuds. A very versatile potato which exhibits good resistance to potato viruses. Narrow in-row spacing (4-6 inches) will produce high yields of B size potatoes.