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Wisconsin | It's not as bad as ARplowboy's experience, at least you're in a better place to grow potatoes. Plenty of market gardeners grow potatoes, but selling them to a supermarket seems like a dead end. Market gardeners make it work because they can sell a lower quality product than a supermarket would expect, for a premium price that people wouldn't pay in a supermarket. It comes down to marketing, variety, whatever the customer is willing to pay for. Yukon gold, fingerlings, baby potatoes, or just the fact that they're at a farmers market and have an attractive teen girl selling them. Mainefarmer and others have covered the growing requirements, that's not easy either. First year might be easy, if you rotate, you might get two, three easy years. Fourth, fifth year will be a disaster if you're not on top of everything. | |
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Potatoes
