Prepping Potato's for a late January Planting

Had to start getting the potato's ready to plant at the end of this month.  Don't use potato's from the store, they've been treated with chemicals and are not intended to be grown.  I ordered organic red and russet potato seedlings.  Pretty inexpensive, I think it was about $6.

The apples in the paper bag give off a gas that promote the budding of the potato's.  When I put them in there were no buds present whatsoever (about 5 days ago).  Now you can see the budding quite well on the reds.

I plan to plant 6 seeds per bag.  The bags are 15 gallons.  I might be pushing it but it's a learning experience.  Have never done potato's before.

I'm only planting one bag of red potato's.  The three other bags for the russet potato's.  We eat more of the russet's but wanted to see how the red potato's would grow. 

Hopefully I'll be able to hold over my own seed potato's for next year so I won't have to invest in seed again.  I bought some burlap sacks for storage.




Based on where I live, I should have planted these in the fall like the asparagus but didn't know I was going to do it till December.  So we'll see if that affects the growth as well.

TIP OF THE GARDEN:  Succession Planting:  Just one other note from the lesson's I've learned especially over the last few years.  When it comes to greens or other plants you wish to eat fresh, succession planting is essential.  Basically, it's starting plants with an amount of time between starting them so you don't have 12 heads of lettuce mature at one time.  So say if you wait 7 days between starting seedlings for arugula, you'll have a head mature once a week for however many successions you plant.