Potato Store – Glory Potato

CANADIAN – CERTIFIED ORGANIC – SEED POTATOES

These varieties not only have a unique flavour, but also a unique shape, long and skinny (finger shaped). Roasting, BBQ’d and Soups are among their best uses.Linzer Delikatess would be classified as a mid season potato with French Fingerling and Banana, late season varieties and Pink Fir Apple our longest season variety. Typically you will receive 12-16 potatoes per kg

Bellanita

Bellanita is an early fingerling variety that is smaller in size, perfect for potato salads! This variety produces very high tuber numbers, these long tubers are consistent in shape and have an attractive yellow skin and pale yellow flesh color. The cooking type is rather firm and Bellanita is known for its excellent taste and texture.

AmaRosa

Sold Out for 2023 – AmaRosa is a mid-season fingerling variety with smooth bright red skin and deep red/pink flesh. These creamy nutritious fingerlings are great for baking, roasting, and grilling. AmaRosa also can make fantastically colorful potato chips as they retain their bright red color when fried.

Banana

Banana is a late-maturing fingerling variety with generally small banana-shaped tubers. These fingerlings are covered with light yellow skin containing pale yellow flesh. The waxy texture holds the tuber together for fabulous potato salads. A very high set can be expected. Moderately resistant to common scab and susceptible to late blight.

French Fingerling

Sold Out 2024 – French Fingerling is a late-maturing variety with oblong tubers covered in red skin containing light yellow flesh. This variety has drawn by far the largest number and most favorable comments from previous year’s customers. It has the firm waxy texture characteristic of most fingerling varieties. French Fingerling grows well and sets fairly heavy also being common scab resistant.

Pink Fir Apple

Pink Fir Apple has been grown for over 100 years, this late season fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also great roasted, boiled, and steamed. Pink Fir Apple stores well throughout the winter and has good resistance to common scab.

Early Season Varieties

Typically you will receive 6-10 potatoes per kg for our Early Season Varieties. Larger potatoes can be cut as long as there are at least 3 eyes on each cut piece. With cutting you can expect to plant 14-16 individual “hills”.

Early Season Varieties should be ready to harvest 50-70 days after planting.

It is a good idea to take a peak under the hills if you want to harvest small potatoes from early season varieties. If you leave these guys too long you may end up with softball sized tubers when left to grow too long.

Alta Blush

Not Available For 2024 – Alta Blush’ was discovered as a chance seedling in Wetaskiwin, Alberta in 1992. The exact parentage is unknown but it was developed by private potato breeder John Safroniuk of Wetaskiwin Alberta. It has a smooth, thin skin, shallow eyes and tastes wonderful. John’ s daughter, Tracey Berg, writes. “The potato is excellent in salad, boiled, baked and roasted. It has a creamy texture. It is by far our favorite for mashing, but they don’t mash well until late September.”

Alta Rose

These tubers have smooth dark red skin with cream flesh and a really good flavor. This mid-season variety has the potential for high yields with medium dormancy and is moderately scab resistant.

Bellanita

Bellanita is an early fingerling variety that is smaller in size, perfect for potato salads! This variety produces very high tuber numbers, these long tubers are consistent in shape and have an attractive yellow skin and pale yellow flesh color. The cooking type is rather firm and Bellanita is known for its excellent taste and texture.

Caribe

Caribe is a high-yielding oblong potato with purple skin and white flesh. These potatoes are an early maturing variety that can grow quite large if planted early and left until the end of the season for harvest. Excellent storage qualities and great for boiling, baking, steaming, and frying.

Carlton

Carlton is a variety that was developed in Canada in the early 1980’s and is one of our earliest maturing varieties. As with many early season potatoes, the plants will generally set less than 8 potatoes and can grow quite large when left in the ground until late in the season.

Huckleberry Gold

*Newest Variety to our store* Huckleberry Gold yields round to oval medium-size tubers with purple skin and rich flavored, golden yellow flesh. Huckleberry Gold potatoes are exceptionally high in antioxidants, this great tasting potato also has a lower glycemic index than other potato varieties. These potatoes are an early/mid season maturing variety, they are also good keepers with good resistance to common scab and verticillium wilt

Irish Cobbler

Irish Cobbler Potato is an heirloom variety that dates back to the 1870s. This early-maturing potato variety makes some of the best mashed potatoes you could ever have! It also works great for potato salad and soup. Irish Cobbler Potato produces medium-sized tubers with tan skin, deep eyes, and a slightly netted skin. Plants are early to produce consistently-high yields of brick-shaped potatoes that are great for boiling or baking. This is widely considered one of the best tasting early-maturing potato varieties.

Norland

Norland has smooth red skin, shallow eyes, and white flesh. No internal defects, few irregular tubers. Some resistance to scab and rhizoctonia (black scurf). Norland is a high-yielding variety, it adapts well to different soils. Sensitive to drought, susceptible to skinning and bruising if harvested before maturity. Stores well even though the dormancy period is short. Moderately resistant to common scab and rhizoctonia.

Rode Eersteling

Rode Eesteling has been a great addition to our selection of heritage potatoes. Rode is an average yielding potato with pale yellow flesh and smooth red skin. Best roasted, boiled, fried, and mashed. Rode Eesteling has moderate winter storage as well as its moderately resistance to scab.

Sieglinde

A very smooth light yellow potato with very thin skin. The flesh is firm and great for storing through the winter. An excellent potato for roasting and boiling. Sieglinde produces a firm skin which makes it ideal for winter storage and shows resistance to scab. This Variety dates back to the 1930’s and originates from Austria.

MID SEASON VARIETIES

Many of our tastiest potatoes fall into this category with these potatoes typically maturing within 70-90 days. Mid season varieties will produce more potatoes than Early Season potatoes and typically do not get as large.

Many Mid, Late & Fingerling Varieties work great in tower and container growing. Especially in Tower growing methods when soil is continually added through early stages of growth, these varieties have the ability to continually produce potatoes due to their indeterminate growing habits.

Some of our best tasting potatoes are our mid season yellow fleshed varieties. There is something about the yellow flesh that results in a rich, sometimes buttery flavour. Common in Europe for decades, yellow fleshed potatoes are beginning to increase in popularity in North America, for one main reason. They taste great.

Agria

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Agria tubers have light yellow skin with favorable dark yellow flesh and shallow eyes. Agria is a high yielding variety that tends to produce large tubers. Excellent baked or boiled ad they aren’t too waxy or floury in texture, suitable for most cooking uses. Agria is our top-selling potato with the most grown for the culinary world thanks to its great flavor. It can be somewhat prone to scab in dry, high pH regions without irrigation.

All Red

All Red produces round tubers that are medium to late maturity. This potato has a good yield with red skinned and distinctive pink/red flesh tubers that maintain their color after cooking. It has an excellent flavor and a nice moist texture

Ballerina

Ballerina is a early mid season variety, these are a yellow fleshed, shallow eyed tuber with very smooth yellow skin. Ballerina has firm cooking qualities that are perfect for potato salad and are known to be a very tasty variety. Ballerina is not easily bruised and washes up very well, it also has a great storage life due to its long dormancy period.

Bridget

White Flesh & Yellow Skin Medium Maturity Good Winter Storage Moderately Resistant to Scab & Late Blight Good Resistance to Tuber Blight Available in 14kg bags Cooking – Baking, mashing, and french fries. Planting – Place potatoes 4-5” deep and 10-14” apart with at least 3 feet between rows. Cover potatoes with 2-3” of soil. Larger potatoes can be cut prior to planting. Ensure there is an equal number of eyes on each cut piece. Growing – Hill plants once they begin to emerge from the soil. Continue to pull dirt up around the plants as they grow. Keep the soil moist, but not overly saturated during the growing season. Containers may need daily watering. Harvest – Flowering is often an indicator young potatoes are almost ready to harvest. For winter storage, potatoes should remain in the ground until light frosts or natural maturity dry down the leaves and stems.

Dakota Pearl

Dakota Pearl has pale yellow skin almost white and white flesh, it has medium-sized round tubers with shallow eyes. Dakota Pearl was originally intended for potato chip processing because it has excellent chipping qualities, it l has also become a very popular fresh variety in the “round white” market. Dakota Pearl also has good resistance to common scab and is a great winter storage potato.

Gold Rush

Gold Rush is a great alternative to Russet Burbank which has been a staple in many gardens for years. Gold Rush is an early maturing russet variety susceptible to early and late blight while also having good resistance to common scab. Texture and taste are hard to match, very white and tasty for mashed potatoes, baked potato, stews, french fries, and perogies!

Kennebec

Kennebec is a high-producing mid season potato with yellow skin and white flesh. It stores extremely well through the winter but is susceptible to common scab and tuber late blight. Kennebec is great boiled, baked, french fries, and chips!

Nicola

Nicola potatoes are uniform tubers with an elongated, oval to oblong shape. The skin is smooth, thin, and light yellow, with a few shallow eyes. Underneath the skin, the flesh is firm, dense, and golden yellow. Nicola potatoes have a mild, nutty, and earthy flavor with a waxy consistency that develops into a smooth, fine-grained finish when cooked. These potatoes are best suited for boiling, baking, and roasting. The tubers also retain their shape when heated due to their low starch and high moisture content. An excellent source of vitamin C, B6 and potassium.

Purple Viking

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Round, purple skin, shallow-eyed tubers. This is a very popular purple cousin to the Viking. Tubers can get quite large. We enjoy this moist flesh potato baked or boiled. Displays some resistance to scab.

Red Gold

Red Gold tubers have red skin with favorable yellow flesh. Red Gold produces small to medium sized tubers in the early/mid season. Has a excellent flavor making it great for baked, boiled, mashed or roasted potato dished. Its also got a moderate resistance to scab

Roko

Oval potatoes with bright red skin and white flesh. Roko has a unique quality of producing high yields with uniform potatoes. Also excellent for over-winter storage.

Sangre

Sangre variety has oval to oblong tubers, dark red skin, shallow eyes, and white flesh. It has a very low incidence of internal defects such as hollow heart and is rated high in Vitamin C. Sangre is a good storage potato that is suitable for boiling and baking raking high across taste tests! Moderately resistant to scab and susceptible to early & late blight.

Shepody

Shepody has long tubers, white skin, white moist flesh, and medium deep eyes. Excellent tasting potato for boiling, baking, or french frying. Moderately resistant to rhizoctonia (black scurf), susceptible to common scab and late blight. Shepody has good storage qualities but needs through the pile ventilation.

Viking

Viking has red skin and very white flesh. The plants have reasonable resistance to drought and moderate resistance to scab. Great for early boiling of baby potatoes & baking. Good over winter storage (same as Norland), Viking is a close cousin to the Purple Viking! Susceptible to late blight.

Yukon Gold

Sold Out 2024- Oval, slightly flattened tubers, yellow skin with light yellow flesh. Tubers can grow quite large and store very well. Good for boiling, baking and frying. Plants look similar to a tomato plant. The smooth, thin, and gold to light brown skin is relatively eye free creating a uniform texture and shape. The flesh is yellow to gold, firm, moist, and waxy. When cooked, Yukon Gold potatoes take on a creamy and tender consistency with a rich, buttery, and earthy flavor

LATE SEASON VARIETIES

This is an easy technique to get a head start on the growing season, excellent for advancing harvest of early potatoes an ensuring late season varieties will mature in your region. The key is to sprout your potatoes in a well lit room or greenhouse which will form nice green leaves ready to start growing when you put your potatoes in the ground. More information can be found on our growing tips page.

I enjoy potatoes as they are relatively easy to grow. Although it is not necessary to use these supplies, however these fertilizers can increase yield and plant heath, the row cover can give a jump-start on growth in early spring & the irrigation system can help mitigate the effects of Canada’s wild climate.

AmaRosa

Sold Out for 2023 – AmaRosa is a mid-season fingerling variety with smooth bright red skin and deep red/pink flesh. These creamy nutritious fingerlings are great for baking, roasting, and grilling. AmaRosa also can make fantastically colorful potato chips as they retain their bright red color when fried.

French Fingerling

Sold Out 2024 – French Fingerling is a late-maturing variety with oblong tubers covered in red skin containing light yellow flesh. This variety has drawn by far the largest number and most favorable comments from previous year’s customers. It has the firm waxy texture characteristic of most fingerling varieties. French Fingerling grows well and sets fairly heavy also being common scab resistant.

Pink Fir Apple

Pink Fir Apple has been grown for over 100 years, this late season fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also great roasted, boiled, and steamed. Pink Fir Apple stores well throughout the winter and has good resistance to common scab.

All Red

All Red produces round tubers that are medium to late maturity. This potato has a good yield with red skinned and distinctive pink/red flesh tubers that maintain their color after cooking. It has an excellent flavor and a nice moist texture

All Blue

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Records of All Blue date back to the late 1800s. However, some claim it to be genetically identical to Russian Blue. With that being said anecdotal evidence states otherwise, please let us know what you find in your gardens! All Blue potatoes are great roasted, steamed, mashed, and sautéed. Similar to the Russian Blue, it is moderately susceptible to scab but is also high in antioxidants.

Bintje

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Originating in 1910 Bintje has pale yellow skin on a long oval tuber with a yellow flesh. This variety is heavy setting and the thick skin makes it a good winter storage potato. Excellent for boiling, baking, french frying, and chipping! all-purpose potato with fairly dry texture. Bintje is susceptible to common scab.

German Butterball

Sold Out 2024 – German Butterball is excellent for storing throughout the winter. Fantastic buttery flavor in these oval heirloom potatoes. Great for baking, roasting, mashing, hashbrowns, fries, and steaming! Since introducing German Butterballs to our selection it has grown to one of the most popular varieties we offer. Also resistant to late blight and common scab.

Green Mountain

Green Mountain is a heritage Variety, all-around a fantastic potato for all home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking, and boiling. This is a late-maturing variety. Tubers are oblong, white flesh, tan skin, deep eyes and occasional irregular growth. Tubers can hold up well in long-term storage with lengthy dormancy to sprout. This variety is susceptible to common scab and highly susceptible to late blight.

Russian Blue

Not available for the 2024 growing season – In the mean time, give All Blue a try. This late maturing, dark blue skin and flesh variety has round to oblong tubers. A very heavy setting, large plant that should be spaced at 12 inches or more in an effort to get it to maturity by fall. The flavor is remarkably normal for such a distinctively visual variety.

Blue Mac

Blue Mac is our smallest purple skin white-fleshed potato. Great either boiled or baked. These tubers are also resistant to potato wart

Excellency

Excellency has yellow skin with a pale yellow flesh and shallow eyes, these tubers are long oval and are known to grow rather big. Excellency cooks with a moderately dry matter and floury texture making this potato great for fries and chipping! This variety will grow in most soils and is high demand for the clean skin finish.

Russet Burbank

Russet Burbank has been a staple in many gardens for years. Large long-oval tubers with light russted skin, shallow eyes and fluffy white flesh. Great for steaming, baking, potato pancakes or thick-cut oven fries. Great storage life for over winter due to long dormancy period. Has a resistance to common scab and high yielding making it great for small gardens.

HERITAGE VARIETIES

There are different definitions of a Heritage or Heirloom variety. For those purists, there are very few plants in the world that date back thousands of years in the case of potatoes, the oldest we grow dates back to the early 1800’s.

For this listing, we have only listed varieties that originate prior to 1950.

Each year we strive to source more Heritage varieties, however, there are only a limited number available in Canadian Gene Banks where all the seed potato stock material is stored.

Banana

Banana is a late-maturing fingerling variety with generally small banana-shaped tubers. These fingerlings are covered with light yellow skin containing pale yellow flesh. The waxy texture holds the tuber together for fabulous potato salads. A very high set can be expected. Moderately resistant to common scab and susceptible to late blight.

French Fingerling

Sold Out 2024 – French Fingerling is a late-maturing variety with oblong tubers covered in red skin containing light yellow flesh. This variety has drawn by far the largest number and most favorable comments from previous year’s customers. It has the firm waxy texture characteristic of most fingerling varieties. French Fingerling grows well and sets fairly heavy also being common scab resistant.

Pink Fir Apple

Pink Fir Apple has been grown for over 100 years, this late season fingerling is quite unusual with long knobby pink-skinned tubers with light yellow flesh. These potatoes make excellent salads but are also great roasted, boiled, and steamed. Pink Fir Apple stores well throughout the winter and has good resistance to common scab.

All Red

All Red produces round tubers that are medium to late maturity. This potato has a good yield with red skinned and distinctive pink/red flesh tubers that maintain their color after cooking. It has an excellent flavor and a nice moist texture

All Blue

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Records of All Blue date back to the late 1800s. However, some claim it to be genetically identical to Russian Blue. With that being said anecdotal evidence states otherwise, please let us know what you find in your gardens! All Blue potatoes are great roasted, steamed, mashed, and sautéed. Similar to the Russian Blue, it is moderately susceptible to scab but is also high in antioxidants.

Bintje

Not available for the 2024 growing season – Originating in 1910 Bintje has pale yellow skin on a long oval tuber with a yellow flesh. This variety is heavy setting and the thick skin makes it a good winter storage potato. Excellent for boiling, baking, french frying, and chipping! all-purpose potato with fairly dry texture. Bintje is susceptible to common scab.

German Butterball

Sold Out 2024 – German Butterball is excellent for storing throughout the winter. Fantastic buttery flavor in these oval heirloom potatoes. Great for baking, roasting, mashing, hashbrowns, fries, and steaming! Since introducing German Butterballs to our selection it has grown to one of the most popular varieties we offer. Also resistant to late blight and common scab.

Green Mountain

Green Mountain is a heritage Variety, all-around a fantastic potato for all home gardeners. Perfect for french fries, baking, and boiling. This is a late-maturing variety. Tubers are oblong, white flesh, tan skin, deep eyes and occasional irregular growth. Tubers can hold up well in long-term storage with lengthy dormancy to sprout. This variety is susceptible to common scab and highly susceptible to late blight.

Russian Blue

Not available for the 2024 growing season – In the mean time, give All Blue a try. This late maturing, dark blue skin and flesh variety has round to oblong tubers. A very heavy setting, large plant that should be spaced at 12 inches or more in an effort to get it to maturity by fall. The flavor is remarkably normal for such a distinctively visual variety.