How Many Potatoes Does One Seed Potato Produce?
It is useful to know how many potatoes will be produced by one seed potato when calculating how many seed potatoes to plant in the vegetable garden.
- variety
- number of chits
- apical dominance
- planting distance
- early or maincrop
- growing conditions etc…
The new potatoes, in the photo below, all came from one root.
Any number of new potatoes, from 2 - 10, can be produced from one seed potato. But most vegetable gardeners would expect at least 6 and preferably 8 -10 new potatoes from each seed tuber planted in the vegetable garden!
Thanks for the information TopVeg!
Comment by Curtis - January 25, 2008 1:18 am
Curtis
So pleased you are able to visit. We are all busy planning our potato planting - waiting for the soil to dry and warm up!
TopVeg
Comment by TopVeg - January 25, 2008 10:30 am
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