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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Want to Grow a Potato from SEED?!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Enter the Clancy Potato Seed Packet Giveaway

Today is special - I got my hands on the Clancy Potato, a potato you can grow from a true seed! I have 40 packs of seeds to give away, so in today's show I'll give you a bit of history of the potato itself, as well as what makes it such a special variety.

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0:00.0

What's up everyone Kevin here today we have something really cool to both talk about and give away I'm giving away 40 packs of a potato that you can grow from actual seed.

0:13.8

It's kind of hard to get these seeds.

0:15.5

They're pretty expensive.

0:16.6

And so I wanted to make these available to some people

0:18.7

just because I was fortunate enough to get a lot of them.

0:21.0

And so I want to give it out to people in the epic gardening community so you can always enter this giveaway at the bottom of

0:26.2

today's podcast in the podcast description please enter it's only running for seven

0:30.4

days so get on it and you actually stand a pretty good chance of winning there's

0:33.7

40 packs that are going out so this is the Clancy potato it's an All-America selections

0:39.2

edible award winner for 2019 out of Beggio seeds. I actually saw these in their natural habitat at

0:47.1

Beggio when I was visiting on my National Garden Bureau tour and it blew my mind

0:51.7

that you could grow a potato from seed.

0:55.0

As you know from the potato content I've been putting out over the course of this year,

0:59.0

most of the time you're growing a potato from a seed potato,

1:02.0

also known as a tuber which is basically just a

1:05.2

potato that someone saved and prepared in a certain way over the course of a season

1:10.0

so that you can then grow it the next year. That's how commercial growers have been growing potatoes

1:14.4

for decades and decades and decades.

1:16.6

So out of Beggio, you have the potato seed

1:20.0

and it's about the size of a kernel of Kienwa. It's very, very small.

1:24.4

And so what I've got here are seeds that are pelletized, so they're a little bit easier to handle.

1:29.8

They germinate really easy and they take about 30 to 45 days to grow from seed to

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