Much to my dismay, I missed out on being able order a nice variety of potatoes, onions and garlic this year. By the time I actually got around to even thinking about it, all I could find were OUT OF STOCK references.
Certainly wasn't as if I needed to order any more of these items but what gardener can resist adding to the garden when an opportunity presents itself?
Well, amazingly, I went into my local green grocer and found a boat-load of fine potatoes to eat AND plant! Yeah, I know I really shouldn't plant the ones from the supermarket but it's an organic grocer and I'm going to try it!
For all of $5 per variety (some were actually only $2.99 for a 3 pound bag) I purchased several pounds of
Russian Banana Fingerling
Buttercream
Golden
French Fingerling
Ruby Crescent Fingerling
That was nearly 20 pounds of potatoes! Shipping costs alone for a quarter of what I purchased would have cost me nearly double of what I paid for one meal of each variety.
Looking forward to eating, planting and harvesting these gems.
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Potato Garden (formerly Ronniger's) http://www.potatogarden.com/
will be listing their seed inventory in mid-November. They have several early varieties availble now and still have garlic. I'm not sure about the onions or shallots as I didn't order or inquire about availablity but you could check.
Thank you very much! Ronniger's was my potato and onion supplier of choice but when I went there, they were unfortunately sold out as well. I'll definitely try them again.
Very much appreciate the recommendation.
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