‘Yukon Gold’ Potato – 1 Pound Bag

Disease-free, scrumptious spuds | The best yellow for baking
Days to Maturity: 70 to 90 from direct sowYukon Gold Potato is so richly flavored that your guests will ask if you already added the butter. This superb baking variety sets an early harvest of large, scrumptious spuds you will find irresistible in soups and side dishes as well as straight from the oven.Yukon Gold Potato is the most popular yellow-skinned variety for baking, and its easy to see why. It harvests early—closer to 70 days than 90, and far ahead of the 100 to 110 typical of midseason types. The tubers are rounded, blocky, and packed with succulent flesh, with thin skins just perfect for eating. (Thats where all the vitamins are hiding, too.) Although its classified as a dry type best suited for baking, I find it superb boiled or fried too. The spuds range from 4 to 10 ounces, so I save the big mongo ones for baked potatoes, and turn the others into soups, stews, and veggie medleys.The Yukon Gold Potato plant grows just 12 to 18 inches tall but spreads up to 4 feet wide, and each 2-pound bag of plants will sow up to 25 feet of row and yield 20 to 30 pounds of potatoes. These plants are grown from disease-free stock, and for my money theyre the best potatoes on the market today.Like all potatoes, Yukon Gold Potato fares best in sandy, enriched soil, but if you have heavy or clay soil, just use a raised bed or plant the tubers more shallowly, mulching them well with straw. Seed Potato Definition:A tuber that has several eyes whose purpose is to be planted.Genetically identical to the parent potato.A faster way to grow potatoes vs seed.Guaranteed virus free and disease free stock.Heres How to Grow Them:If your soil is normal to sandy, work in some gypsum and Epsom salts before planting, then set the tubers 3 or 4 inches deep and about a foot apart. (If your soil is heavier, plant more shallowly and rely on mulch rather than soil for coverage.) Potato tubers should be planted in early spring, at the same time as you sow your green peas. If a late frost threatens, just toss a few inches of straw or other mulch over the young plants, and chances are theyll be fine. When the shoots emerge, you may want to sow some bush beans alongside the young plants—theyll keep the bugs down. Basil and Summer Savory are also fine companions that keep insects at bay—I usually just wait to see which potatoes didnt sprout, and fill in the gaps with these helpful herbs. (Of course, marigold, friend to all vegetables for its ability to destroy more nematodes than commercial repellents, is always a beautiful choice too).Potatoes tend to grow their fruit right under the soil, and over time the tubers may stick out above the soil line. This can cause greening, which ruins the flavor (and adds toxins to the potato), so watch your plants and add more soil, straw, or peat moss as necessary to keep the taters under wraps. The plants may also bloom, and small, hard green fruits will appear when the flowers pass. Dont be tempted to harvest them—theyre toxic.When its time to harvest, begin at the outer edges of each plant and work your way in. You want to gently turn over the soil using a garden fork or blunt-edged spade, to avoid cutting into the potatoes. Store the spuds, unwashed and not touching one another, in a totally dark, cool place, where theyll last for several weeks. (You can eat them after theyve sprouted; just cut away the inedible sprout and its eye.) Once youve harvested the crop from end to end, begin in a new spot and work your way through it from a different direction. Youll be amazed at how many spuds you missed the first time.1-pound bag of tubers, plants 10 to 15 feet of row.
Genus:Solanum
Species:tuberosum
Variety:’Yukon Gold’
Item Form:Bareroot
Zone:1 – 10
Days to Maturity:90
Fruit Color:White
Habit:Vining
Plant Height:18 in
Plant Width:4 ft
Bloom Size:1 in
Additional Characteristics:Edible
Light Requirements:Full Sun
Moisture Requirements:Dry
Resistance:Disease Resistant
Soil Tolerance:Sandy, Normal,  loamy
Uses:Cuisine, Outdoor, Beds, Containers
Restrictions: *Due to state restrictions we cannot ship to the following:
Canada, Guam, Hawaii, Montana, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands