Kennebec White Potato

Be sure to check out our Potato Growing Guide for more tips & tricks on successfully growing potatoes in your garden. Kennebec White Potato is the go-to variety for making french fries and homemade potato chips. This white potato variety produces heavy yields of large, oblong potatoes. Kennebecs have a dark brown outside with a slightly bumpy texture. The interior flesh is ivory-white with a high starch content that makes it store very well. Although this variety is best known for its frying applications, it is a great all-around potato. It works excellent for baking, mashing and roasting as well! Irish potatoes are a late, cool-weather crop and should be planted in late winter or early spring while temperatures are still relatively cool. Potatoes will not perform well during the heat of summer and should be harvested before temperatures significantly warm. Before planting, cut seed potatoes into smaller pieces leaving at least one to two "eyes" or buds per piece. For best results,