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Start Your Potato Garden Off Right.

Want to grow potatoes at home? While you can technically use a potato from the grocery store, most experts recommend that you buy a certified seed potato (or a few!). Why? Certified seed potatoes (which are actual tubers, not seeds) are checked to ensure that they are disease-free, which means that your potato crop is far more likely to succeed — and that your attempt at producing a potato crop won’t introduce diseases into your soil that could harm your other plants!