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 20th. We shut down the potato storage control systems at this point, please note, seed quality will decline. Pick-Up Sites • Combine orders with other farms to create a single pick-up site. We identify geographic groupings, and sites are created as needed. • We plan to have pickup sites near Minneapolis and northern Illinois. • A single or combined order of 2,000 to 4,000 pounds creates a pickup site. The minimum order depends on the distance from us. • Delivery is in late March, weather dependent. • You agree to arrive at the site for pickup at the designated time and day for your site. • Site hosts benefit by the convenience of delivery to their doorstep. Rendezvous If you have a large order and are a long distance away, we will meet at a middle point if it makes sense. You pay the additional 15 cent per pound pick-up site charge. Call or email us. Shipping What happens if you are not anywhere close to a pickup site or a very long distance away? For pallet size orders we will get a shipping quote. For small orders, you pay postal shipping costs, plus a $10 per package charge. Contact us.
Kennebec	A great baker sized potato. White flesh and skin. Capable of high yields and large spuds. Excellent flavor. We plant at 9 inch spacing to keep the potatoes from getting too big. 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 10 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	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.
Villetta Rose	This is a new variety out of the WI potato program. Excellent flavor, uniform round shape. A longer day potato that matures later than Dark Red Norland. Seems to stand up to leafhopper feeding.
Adirondack Blue	A dark blue skin and blue streaked to solid blue flesh. Impressive yields of large potatoes, sizes almost like Kennebec. We are dropping All Blue in favor of this variety.
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.