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Can You Store Seed Potatoes From This Year’s Harvest?

August 15, 2026 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Can You Store Seed Potatoes From This Year’s Harvest?

Gardeners can store potatoes from this year’s harvest and plant them next season, but that does not make every potato in the harvest a good seed potato. The temptation makes perfect sense: a basket of beautiful homegrown tubers sits on the counter, and suddenly the grocery-store seed potato purchase looks completely unnecessary. The catch involves…

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