Seed potatoes

As every vegetable grower understands, all good crops start with good seed, and potatoes are no exception.

However, potato tubers, unlike many other seeds, need considerable care and attention to optimise results. Seed potatoes, themselves a perishable input, power the young plants for their first 40 days and account for about 30% of the total cost of production. Understanding what they need, and why, is of great value.

In Issue 08 of the PotatoLink magazine, Paulette Baumgartl produces a special feature on the seed potato including information on age, diseases, storage, cutting, treatment, and certification.