Potatoes

 

Our potato selection is a work in progress that depends on how well some of our own seed potatoes keep over the winter and what other interesting varieties we decide to experiment with come spring.  

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Red Norland

Characteristics:  A good yielding, early maturing variety with shallow eyes, oblong to round, medium, bright red skinned, attractive tubers. Good boiling, fair baking qualities.  

Growing Period:  60 days

Seed Supplier: Early's Farm and Garden Centre

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Marilyn

Characteristics:  A new more attractive fingerling.  Tubers are oval, very regular with shallow eyes, yellow skin and yellow flesh.  Texture is firm and flavour is wonderful.  This is a good choice for boiling, roasting, or steaming. 

Growing Period:  75 days

Seed Supplier: Chain Reaction Urban Farm

 

Linzer Delecates 

Characteristics:  The Linzer is an early-maturing waxy potato most popular for boiling or making salads. Potatoes are small & oval with yellow skin.  

Growing Period:  65 days

Seed Supplier: T & T Seeds

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Caribe

Characteristics:  Developed in Canada, Caribe is very early, ready to be dug in just 70 days. An elegant potato with brilliant dark blue skin. Superb creamy-white flesh makes the fluffiest mashed potatoes.

Growing Period:  70 days

Seed Supplier: Chain Reaction Urban Farm

 

Purple Magic

Characteristics:  This beautiful smooth skinned purple has a distinctive white ring on the inside making it very unique. Purple Magic produces medium sized tubers. It works great in potato salads, oven roasting, and is suitable for home-made chips!

Growing Period:  90 days

Seed Supplier: Chain Reaction Urban Farm

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Rosemarie

Characteristics:  Rosemarie is a fingerling-type potato with a smooth glossy skin finish and a creamy pinkish white centre. This unique specialty variety produces high yields and high numbers of smaller pink fingerling potatoes. 

Growing Period:  90 days

Seed Supplier: Chain Reaction Urban Farm