COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – It’s time to start planting your seed potatoes, says Tim Hartmann with Texas A&M AgriLife.
“We call them seed potatoes but they’re not really seed,” said Hartmann. “They’re just basically small potatoes that have been grown to where they’re virus-free. They’re really clean. We’re going to plant them as though they were a seed.”
You star by cutting the potatoes. Watch the video in the player above to see how Hartmann cuts the potato.
“Make sure that each one has an eye,” he said. “Sometimes the eyes will have already sprouted like this but that is basically going to be what’s going to make the plant, the potato.”
Hartmann says to set the potato pieces inside for at least two to three days to dry and scab over.
“Then we’ll plant them upright in the ground in a trench about four inches deep, and then we just grow them. And by about usually May around here, we can dig them and we’ll have hopefully five to ten times what we planted,” he said.
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