Storage Potato

Storage potatoes are chosen for keeping quality at full maturity. A late harvest date alone does not guarantee storage performance.

Popular types

Choose documented storage quality.
Allow skins to set after vines die when conditions permit.
Avoid bruising at harvest.
Cure and store cool, dark and ventilated without freezing.
Plant certified seed potatoes; hill plants and discard green tubers.
Set seed pieces with at least one healthy eye 3-4 inches deep and 10-12 inches apart in cool, workable soil.
Keep moisture steady during tuber formation, supplying about 1-2 inches weekly without waterlogging.
Inspect leaves for Colorado potato beetle eggs and larvae and remove affected plants promptly if late blight is suspected.
Dig new potatoes after flowering or wait for vines to die back for storage potatoes, handling skins gently.

Plant certified disease-free seed tubers or healed seed pieces in spring when soil is workable and at least 45°F.

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