It is useful to know how many potato tubers will be produced by one seed potato when calculating how many seed potatoes to plant in the vegetable garden.
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The number of potatoes produced by each seed potato varies according to:
- variety
- number of chits
- apical dominance
- planting distance
- early or maincrop
- growing conditions etc…
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The new potatoes, in the photo above, 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!
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