2016 Catalog & Growers Guide - Potato Garden

1 2016 Catalog & Growers Guide Potato Garden 2015 - 2016 Catalog and Growers Guide Grateful acknowledgement is made to Mike and Nancy Bubel for permission to reprint these illustrations from their book ROOT CELLARING 1979, 1991 2nd edition by Storey Communications. ROOT CELLARING By Mike and Nancy Bubel $ Page 3 Certification Process .. 4 Descriptions of Potato Varieties Early Potatoes - Short Season Maturing .. 5 Main Potatoes - Mid Season Maturing .. 6-7 Late Potatoes - Long Season Maturing .. 8-9 Fingerlings .. 10 New Cultivars .. 11 Potato Growers Guide .. 12-15 Garlic and Garlic Growers Guide .. 16-17 Shipping Guide .

2 18 Cut out or Copy Order Form .. 19 CERTIFIED = Certified Seed Potatoes Our Certified Seed Potatoes are certified by the State of Colorado to be disease free. Each certified variety will have the "Certified Seed Pota-to" designation on invoices. SEED = Non-Certified Seed Potatoes A non-certified variety will have the "Seed Potato " designation on invoices. All our non-certified varieties are in a 2 to 5 year process of becoming certified. LIMITED = Limited Quantity Varieties with the limited designation are limited to 10 lb orders and also have higher pricing. PVP = Plant Variety Protection A few of our varieties are Plant Variety Protected, (PVP).

3 They are Canela Russet, Colorado Rose, Mountain Rose, Purple Majesty, Rio Colorado, and Rio Grande Russet. These are cultivars/varieties that are protected under the Federal Plant Variety Protection Act and are owned and controlled by the Colorado Certified Potato Growers Asso-ciation (CCPGA). At this time CCPGA allows you to buy small quan-tities of PVP seed from us for your own Garden use and also allows you to sell as food through CSAs, at farmers markets, to restaurants, etc. Larger commercial ventures will need to pay a royalty. You are not allowed to grow these PVP cultivars/varieties for seed stock unless you first get full written consent from CCPGA.

4 Give us a call if you need to grow seed stock and we can set it up. PVP lasts for 25 years. Naturally Grown Seed Potatoes Our naturally grown seeds, seed potatoes, and garlic are grown without the use of chemicals, pesticides, or fungicides. Certified Organic Seed Potatoes If you are a certified organic farm you may call in your order in 50 lb increments. This year we are not selling any seed potatoes under 50 lbs as organic. Because we are not a certified organic handler, when we break apart a 50 lb sack from the organic farm, the seed looses it s organic status, according to the paper trail. You may check with your organic certifier on this before ordering smaller than 50 lb quantities.

5 Available: Austrian Crescent, Canela, Desiree, German Butter-ball, Kennebec, La Ratte, Purple Majesty, Purple Viking, Red Gold, Red Thumb, Yukon Gold. EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS: Size Price1 Shipping lbs. Application 8 ounce bottle $ 1 Garden < 1,000 Sq. Ft. 32 ounce bottle $ 3 Garden 1,000 + Sq. Ft. 1 Gallon Jug $ 10 --- Gallon Jug $ 28 --- 2 - Gallon Jugs $ 55 1 Acre In 2002 we started a business in which we sold multiple varieties of Potato seed on the internet and from a Catalog . As we sold Potato seed in this fashion we met a lot of people who requested our advice and help in maintaining and improving their soil health and in controlling many of their Potato disease issues.

6 We were able to share a lot of information but were unable to help by having a product available that they could purchase. After many years of work and product testing, we are now able to provide a product that contains all of the soil amendments that we use on our farm and is available in one container that is easily shippable to our customers. ACTONTM is a soil amendment that contains three different products, RUTOPIATM, SOYAPLEXTM, and AGROTHRIVE LF. RUTOPIATM contains many beneficial microbes not limited to but including Tricho-derma, Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria, and Phosphorus Solubilizing Bacte-ria. SOYAPLEXTM is a highly concentrated carbohydrate-protein plant product that provides slow release nutrition for both plant and soil microbial life.

7 AGROTHRIVE is an organic fertilizer and soil amend-ment that delivers exceptional crop growth and food safety to crops. These three products together will improve the soil s ecosystem. Not only do we recommend this product for potatoes, but we recommend that you use it on all of your Garden , fruit, lawn, and flowering plants. ACTONTM ACTONTM formula contains OMRI listed components and other or-ganics. It is a fertilizer, soil amendment, and plant growth stimulator. Organic Soil Activator It s what potatoes crave! 1. Price does not include shipping. Shipping is an additional charge based on the shipping weight.

8 See page 22 for shipping details. Page 4 There is no species of human food that can be consumed in a greater variety of modes than the Potato . Sir John Sinclair, 1828 In just 400 years, the Potato has replaced grain as a basic source of nutrition in many na-tions around the world, because the Potato is the best all-round bundle of nutrition known to mankind. Its ratio of carbohydrate to protein is ideal eat enough potatoes to satisfy your energy needs and you will automatically get much of the protein you need. Furthermore, you get protein of the type that you can readily use for body growth and maintenance.

9 73% of a Potato s protein is easily utilized by humans. Only eggs rank higher, at 96%. Soybeans are rated at 72%, corn at 54% and wheat at 53%. The Potato also provides significant amounts of vitamins and minerals, especially Vitamin C, iron, thiamin, phosphorus and niacin. Another virtue of the Potato is exceptional productivity. No other crop produces more ener-gy per acre than potatoes. The Potato grows well at elevations from sea level to 14,000 feet. It thrives in a wider variety of soils and under a wider range of climatic conditions than any other staple food. It also ma-tures faster, yielding edible tubers in just 50 days, and reaching maturity in 60 to 120 days.

10 Overall, the Potato is the world s most efficient means of converting plant, land, water and labor into a palatable and nutritious food. Potatoes In Vitro Mini-tubers From the Greenhouse Colorado s certified seed Potato program insures quality seed and prevents the spread of Potato diseases. Without such programs in place, farmers would struggle with their seed stocks running out. Running out describes the process where diseases spread and multiply year after year and yields continu-ally drop. The certification program also helps prevent certain diseases that can wipe out whole fields of potatoes in a single year.