Blue potatoes rock.

[HopeHoops]

Not only are they beautiful, but they are great creamers and we grow them ourselves. Old tradition.

[progressoid]

1. We're going to try to grow them next year.

Where do you get your seed?

[Denninmi]

2. Most feed/farm stores carry them now.

Or, you can get them online at places like Roninger's Potato Farm.

Or, you can buy some organic (so they're not treated with sprout inhibitors) purple potatoes at places like Whole Foods and plant those. That's actually where my nicest stock of them came from -- a couple of years back in the spring, I saw these abnormally large purple baking potatoes at Whole Foods, so I bought and planted some. They make consistently larger purple potatoes than the other kinds I've tried.

[progressoid]

5. Thanks for the ideas

Our local farm store has a few last year but they sold out quickly.

LOTS to choose from here:
http://www.potatogarden.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PG&Category_Code=NSP

Will check out the whole foods option too.

[Denninmi]

3. Most feed/farm stores carry them now.

Or, you can get them online at places like Roninger's Potato Farm.

Or, you can buy some organic (so they're not treated with sprout inhibitors) purple potatoes at places like Whole Foods and plant those. That's actually where my nicest stock of them came from -- a couple of years back in the spring, I saw these abnormally large purple baking potatoes at Whole Foods, so I bought and planted some. They make consistently larger purple potatoes than the other kinds I've tried.

[HopeHoops]

7. Local (private) farm/garden supply store. They didn't have any this year.

Fortunately the things are long keepers and we had enough to do about half of the bed. I got some kind of white potato for the other half.

[KamaAina]

4. As do purple sweet potatoes.

From the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. 'Ono!

[Denninmi]

6. Yeah, those are fun.

Tried to grow those once, but they didn't make it -- they take a really, really long season, like 130-140 days. I have success with the 90-110 day varieties of sweet potatoes here in Michigan.

[IcyPeas]

8. I've never heard...

of this band - "The Blue Potatoes". Do they really rock?