Cooks Magazine is enthusiastic about Red Bliss potatoes for soups and stews. Any idea if these are available locally as seed potatoes and is this a good place to grow? Bob Vancouver
I've never even heard of that cultivar, and I'm a spudhead. You might try asking the friendly folks at McFayden. Certainly, you're in a zone where potatoes are possible.
Bob Red Bliss potatoes, are grown in California, Minnesota, and the Dakotas, have a slightly different taste and texture than the Florida reds. The skin is flakier and the flesh is white, harder, and contains less moisture. Red Bliss potatoes are available most of the year. The spring and summer varieties go directly to the market and always have a sweeter, milder flavor. Just like white potatoes, the later fall crop of red potatoes is put into storage for shipment during the winter. here is a link to the CFIA web site that lists cultivars grown in Canada as seed potatoes http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/potpom/var/indexe.shtml and it does not seem to list red bliss as a cultivar grown here. doesn't mean its not available just not registered as a legally grown seed potato by a CFIA regulated and accredited seed grower
