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Green Mountain

seed potatoes

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Solanum tuberosum
Late season, buff skin, white flesh.

A true potato lover’s potato. Baked or boiled, the medium-sized round tubers have unparalleled fluffiness and an earthy flavor that doesn’t fade in long storage.

When this 1885 heirloom from Vermont was out of circulation a few years back, many New England growers were bereft. We had to get it back! In collaboration with one of our long-time potato growers, we embarked on a Green Mountain restoration, scouring seed banks for genetic material; growing out clonal plantlets from tissue culture; cleaning and testing to ensure 100% health; and finally growing out the mini-tubers that are the foundation of a certified-seed line. We’ve been thrilled to offer a good supply of seed stock.

Resistant to fusarium storage rot, black leg and verticillium wilt. Susceptible to viral diseases and scab.

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ships in spring

Quick Details

Skin Color: buff
Flesh Color: white
Shape: oblong
Yield: medium
Storage Potential: excellent
Scab Resistance: moderate
Texture: dry, mealy
Harvest Season: late season
Lifecycle: perennial grown as an annual

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Compare with other White Potatoes
Variety	Skin Color	Flesh Color	Shape	Yield	Storage Potential	Scab Resistance	Texture	Harvest Season	Lifecycle
Kennebec Organic	buff	white	oblong	high	excellent	moderate	firm, moist	mid	perennial grown as an annual
Elba Organic	buff	white	round	high	excellent	high	firm, moist	late	perennial grown as an annual
Upstate Abundance Organic	buff	white	round	high	excellent	moderate	firm, creamy	early	perennial grown as an annual
Envol	buff	white	round	medium	good	moderate	floury	very early	perennial grown as an annual
Upstate Abundance	buff	white	round	high	excellent	moderate	firm, creamy	early	perennial grown as an annual
Eva	buff	white	round-oblong	medium	excellent	high	floury, mealy	mid	perennial grown as an annual
Kennebec	buff	white	oblong	high	excellent	moderate	firm, moist	mid	perennial grown as an annual
Elba	buff	white	round	high	excellent	high	firm, moist	late	perennial grown as an annual
Green Mountain	buff	white	oblong	medium	excellent	moderate	dry, mealy	late	perennial grown as an annual
Katahdin	buff	white	round	high	excellent	moderate	firm, moist	late	perennial grown as an annual
Superior	buff	white	oblong	high	good	high	firm, medium-dry	early	perennial grown as an annual

Additional Information

Saving the Green Mountain Potato

Late blight, responsible for famines in the northern hemisphere, arrived in the U.S. in 1840, and a considerable effort to develop resistant potato varieties soon followed. One of the earliest achievements was the Green Mountain potato, developed by Orson Alexander of the University of Vermont in 1878 and released seven years later. While not considered late-blight resistant by today’s standards, the variety offered heavy yields, great flavor and versatile culinary uses. It became the dominant potato variety grown in New England.

By the 1950s, however, mechanized industry favored potatoes with a more consistent shape and size, and new russet potatoes began to replace the old Green Mountains. Still, it held on as a staple for homesteaders and gardeners for the rest of the century.

In the early 2000s, the Slow Food Ark of Taste highlighted the variety as being on the decline, and in 2020 the very last of the available certified seed was offered in our catalog. (See: What is certified potato seed?)

Responding to the outpouring of customer requests for Green Mountain, we set our sights on saving the vanishing breed. We teamed up with a family in Maine that grows foundation seed potatoes for the majority of growers on the eastern seaboard and beyond, and they were able to find a clean source of Green Mountain tissue maintained by the Maine Potato Board. In 2022 the first new plantlets were grown in beds of sterile soil to produce a batch of minitubers, which in 2023 were grown out into seed potatoes. We are proud to be able to offer certified Green Mountain seed to Fedco customers nearly 150 years after its first introduction.

Seed Potatoes Solanum tuberosum

One pound of seed will usually plant 5–8 row feet, depending on the variety; 10# will usually plant 50 row feet.

Early potatoes mature in 65-80 days.
Midseason potatoes mature in 80-90 days
Late potatoes mature in more than 90 days

See Growing Potatoes for more information.

Shipping

For orders placed by February 20, 2026, this item will ship on our regular shipping schedule, starting in late March with the warmest states and finishing by early May. Orders placed after February 20, 2026 will be shipped later, and in the order in which they were received. We cannot ship this item any earlier; we regret that we cannot honor any requests to do so.