![]() The tubers are large and round or oblong – excellent flavor. This mid-season potato has red skin and creamy white flesh. You can find Satina potatoes from Johnny’s Selected Seeds. It also has high resistance to scab and tuber late blight, plus moderate resistance to Potato Virus Y. The tubers are large with few flaws – excellent for mashing. This potato has yellow-tan skin and smooth, buttery, yellow flesh. You can find Russian Banana Fingering potatoes from High Mowing Seeds. It was first grown by Russians who settled in the U.S. It is easy to grow, stores well, and has high resistance to scab. The tubers are small and oblong, perfect for boiling, baking, or roasting. This heirloom potato has tan skin and moist, buttery, yellow flesh. You can find Red Pontiac potatoes from Gurney’s. It performs well in heavy soil and stores well, making it a favorite. It a good choice for mashing, or if you want new potatoes (harvested before maturity). This potato has thin pinkish-red skin and crisp, white flesh. You can find Red Chieftain potatoes from High Mowing Seeds. It has better flavor than Dark Red Norland (and stores better). It is good for boiling, or for use as new potatoes (harvested before maturity). This mid-season potato has thin pinkish-red skin and firm, moist, white flesh. You can find Purple Viking potatoes from Gurney’s. Purple Viking can produce up to 2 pounds of tubers per plant. ![]() It is good for baking or mashing, and it is favored over Yukon Gold for flavor. This early potato has thin purple-pink skin and creamy, white, buttery flesh. You can find Pinto Gold potatoes from Johnny’s Selected Seeds. It produces a high yield of tubers, whose shape can vary from oval to fingerling. This late potato has red skin and smooth, buttery, yellow flesh with an excellent flavor. You can find Natascha potatoes from Fedco Seeds. Natascha resists bruising, rhizoctonia, black leg, potato virus Y, and tuber rot. It produces a high yield of tubers with very few blemishes. This early potato has yellow skin and smooth, creamy, yellow flesh. You can find Lehigh potatoes from Fedco Seeds. It also resists both scab and blackspot bruise. Lehigh boasts productive yields and excellent storage, with some tubers growing to over a pound. It was released in 2007 by Cornell, Penn State, and the University of Maine (it was tested in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania). This potato has yellow skin and light yellow flesh. You can find Kennebec potatoes from Gurney’s. Kennebec boasts high yields and disease resistance. ![]() It is good for frying, baking, or boiling. This potato variety is quite productive, with thin tan skin and smooth white flesh. You can find Katahdin potatoes from Fedco Seeds. This variety resists mosaic, but is susceptible to spindle tuber, leaf roll, and scab. Some of the tubers grow very large, and they tend to move towards the soil surface, so be sure to keep up with hilling. It was released in 1932 by the USDA and the state of Maine (names after Mount Katahdin in Maine). This potato has tan skin and white flesh. You can find German Butterball potatoes from Fedco Seeds. It has resistance to scab, but is susceptible to Rhizoctonia. This variety boasts high yields and it stores well. True to its name, the flesh is buttery and smooth, yet dry – perfect for roasting or frying in the winter. This potato has light brown or yellow skin and yellow flesh. You can find Elba Potatoes from Fedco Seeds. The plants emerge slowly in spring, but they don’t need ideal conditions to survive, and they are forgiving to beginners. They store well over the winter, but even better, they resist both scab and late blight. This potato has round tubers with brown skin and white flesh. You can find Burbank Russet potatoes from Gurney’s. Often called the Idaho Baking Potato, the tubers are large and oblong, storing well in the long term, even during the winter. It takes 120 days to mature, but it’s worth the wait, which is probably why it is one of the most popular in the U.S. ( You can find a recipe for twice baked mashed potatoes here.) This thick-skinned potato variety has tan to brown skin with dry, white flesh that makes it ideal for baking, frying, or mashing. You can find All Blue potatoes from Hudson Valley Seed. This heirloom potato variety really is all blue, boasting both blue skin and flesh inside! It is sometimes called Purple Marker, and it has nice flavor with a creamy texture, making it good for boiling or baking. Here are 17 storage potatoes that will keep for a long time: All Blue You can learn more about these potato varieties (and where to find them) below. Kennebec potatoes are another variety that stores well in the long term.
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