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hello all ,i was just woundering can you get seed potatoes fromyour own crop?? ; ???

Good question, I often wondered the same thing,  ???

Well yes you can save from you own potatoes for seed, personally I would advise to buy fresh seed potatoes from a reliable source to avoid risk of desease

Quote from: powerspade on February 27, 2006, 22:13:34
Well yes you can save from you own potatoes for seed, personally I would advise to buy fresh seed potatoes from a reliable source to avoid risk of desease

thanks iwill take that onboard

Me too , thanks. :)

not had any problems with desease for the last 15 years - i always keep some of the healthy (green) ones and replant them - also buy new ones

Ive kept a few Pentland Javelins that i dug only a month or so back to plant, they are chitting away quite happily, will keep you updated!!!

I kept my own the year before last with no problems. I didn't keep any last year as a precaution because my tomatoes had blight.

Of course, if you grow your spuds in containers- as more and more folk seem to be doing, especially first earlies- you've no need to worry about disease in your own, kept seed.

Containers indoors, of course.

At 10p - 15p for each seed potato, probably worth the minimal cost of fresh seed potatoes against (potential) spreading of disease.