Quality Maine Seed Potatoes
Organic Seed Potatoes, Fingerlings, Onion Sets, Shallots and Garlic
ORDERING FOR 2025 NOW OPEN!
HELLO! Welcome to the nineteenth annual seed catalog from The Maine Potato Lady,™ your source for quality seed potatoes, seed garlic, heritage grains, soil amendments, and much more. Over the years, we have enjoyed sharing with you the many varieties of potatoes, heirlooms, and new releases that we have grown and prepared for our family meals. Whether you’re a longtime customer or placing your first order, we’re glad to help you get the most from your garden.
Most gardeners probably have favorites that they simply can’t go without, and they plant those favorites every season. Many years ago, we trialed German Butterball, and after harvesting a bumper crop and agreeing that the flavor surpassed all the other potato varieties we had grown that year, German Butterball became our favorite, our staple crop.
Each year we choose a handful of potato varieties to trial in our home garden to test for yield, disease resistance, and of course, flavor. As we harvest and store the tubers in the root cellar under our log home, we have every intention of trying those new varieties in our go-to recipes, yet time and again we have found ourselves reaching for our tried-and-true favorite, German Butterball.
This year, instead of reaching automatically for our old favorite, we filled our basket one night with a new trial variety, Fenway Red, and made mashed potatoes, and wow! So good, so creamy! We were glad we’d tried something new.
Over the years, many of you have asked us to share our favorite potato varieties, and we’ve often named German Butterball, Pinto Gold, and Baltic Rose as the ones we love to grow and enjoy. But as the seasons pass, we add new favorites; just this past year, Soraya has joined the list of “must have” potatoes in our family garden.
It’s tempting to stick only with old favorites, but as we learned, it’s possible to discover new favorites without giving up the ones you’ve loved for years. If you’ve been eyeing a new variety but worried you’ll be disappointed, take the risk; it could become your new staple variety!
If you have a favorite variety that you think we absolutely must try, please write to us and we may add it to our trial plot in 2025!
NEW THIS SEASON! For 2025, we’ve added four new North American varieties to our interesting potato collection, a new heritage wheat, two new peonies, a new garlic variety, and a selection of cover crops to help feed the precious soil.
Our Safe Seed Pledge.
The Maine Potato Lady is a certified organic handler (#0706) through MOFGA Certification Services, LLC. All our seed is untreated. We do not knowingly use or sell any genetically modified plants or organisms (GMOs). Certificate is available on our website.
Prices subject to change without notice. We do not ship outside the US.
