"Wildbilly" wrote in message
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Balvenieman : wrote:

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I'm in peninsular Florida, U.S.A. where normal potato-planting time
is December, which makes obtaining seed potatoes a bit of a problem . . .

From http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HS183 it would appear that you could get
seed potatoes from your local store, or order potatoes that store well
this Spring, and store or refrigerate until next Fall.
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I planted potatoes in a garbage
pail as an experiment. I had some russets that had started to sprout. I
cut them with an eye on each piece (as my husband's grandfather did many
years ago) and let the cut edges dry before I planted them. Is there any
reason to buy "seed potatoes"? I would have had a decent crop fot what I
had planted, had I not listened to a friend and dug them before the tops
dried off.....Sharon in SW Ontario Canada