Wood Prairie Farm - Certified Organic Farm in Northern Maine

Faithfully rotate garden crops. Never plant potatoes after another nightshade.

Treat your garden to generous amounts of organic matter: cover crops, leaves, straw.

Potatoes love fertility: barnyard manure is wonderful when composted or fully aged. Promote plant health with regular sprays of liquid seaweed and liquid fish.

Plant the best Certified Seed available.

Warm seed or greensprout prior to planting. Five pounds of nonfingerling seed tubers plants 40-50 feet of row unless otherwise noted. Five pounds of fingerling seed tubers will plant about 120 feet of row.

Cut seed tubers into blocky pieces containing at least two eyes and weighing 1-1/2 to 2 oz. (Fingerlings 3/4 to 1 oz.)

Plant shallow for fast emergence; (1" deep in the North to 4" deep in the South) hill soil around plants 2-3 times beginning when they are 4-6 inches high.

Regularly handpick and control insect pests.

Harvest anytime you please after tubers reach marble size.

To harvest for storage, wait until the tops are completely dead. Then dig and store in moist, dark cellar, 40° (best) - 50°.

(Complete Organic Potato Growing Guide sent FREE with each order)

I planted your Rose Finn Apple Finglerlings in 2002. Fantastic yield and flavor! I gave some to my neighbors and everybody LOVED them. Thank you for a wonderful potato. Now I am going to plant Russian Banana Fingerling, to see how they are.

JW
Grand Rapids, MN

We tried Butte last year for the first time. Some friends recommended them. They were excellent. Our Caribé (Favorite) crop were marginal but Red Cloud made up for them. Keep up the good work. I am getting my order in before I mention you on my radio show tomorrow. Thanks.

ER
West Branch, IA

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