• Article About Our Certified Organic Seed Potatoes Discover the unique qualities of our Certified Organic Seed Potatoes, a hallmark of sustainable agriculture from the fertile Pemberton Valley. These potatoes are more than just a crop;...
• Article How to Grow Potatoes from Seed It's not a typo, and we're not talking about seed potatoes. This is actually how to grow potatoes from seed. Potatoes, just like other vegetables, flower in the...
• Article Planting Potatoes Whether you intend on planting potatoes in a garden trench, in containers, or even in your unused parking lot stall at work, your key to success is an...
• Article About Potatoes As a vegetable crop (as opposed to a grain crop), the potato is the world’s most important foodstuff, so there are many interesting facts about potatoes. The starchy...
• Article How to Grow Potatoes Potatoes are important to the self-sufficient gardener and the gourmet gardener. Easy to grow, highly nutritious and there is a variety for every use in the kitchen. Kids...
• Article How and When to Harvest Potatoes Whether the goal is to harvest tender, immature “new potatoes,” or to harvest fully mature potatoes for storage and use over the fall and winter, it’s helpful to...
• Article Are My Potatoes Determinate or Indeterminate? If you're trying to figure out whether your potato plants are determinate or indeterminate, you can breathe a sigh of relief. It's not as critical as it might...
• Article Roasted Fingerling Potatoes with Garlic and Herbs This recipe for Roasted Fingerling Potatoes is the perfect side for fall meals. These get planted in early spring – as early as April on the coast. This is...
• Article Hasselback Fingerling Potatoes with Rosemary Emulsion This is our new favourite way to roast root vegetables. Hasselback Fingerling Potatoes, or Potato a la Hasselbacken, are named after the Hasselbacken restaurant in Stockholm. This ingenious...
• Article How to Get Your Potatoes Off to a Great Start If you’re growing potatoes this year, pre-sprouting them allows you to harvest much earlier, which gives you time to plant a fall or winter crop. It also lessens disease...
• Article What are Genetically Engineered Seeds? When asked the question, “What are genetically engineered seeds?” we explain that scientists can now bypass the traditional breeding methods of manipulating plant characteristics. Rather than cross-breeding plants,...
• Article What Seeds To Use For Succession Planting It’s that exciting time of year when we’re starting to see our gardens explode with activity and growth! This means we’ll soon be pulling delicious and bountiful harvests...
• Article Kohlrabi and Potato Subji Kohlrabi and Potato Subji is a Punjabi vegetarian dish that makes an excellent vegetable side, but it’s rich and spicy enough to feature as a main course. It...
• Article 2023 Scholarship Recipients (West Coast Seeds x gardenologie) We are so incredibly honored, humbled and touched by all the applications received for the West Coast Seeds x gardenologie Scholarship. When we set out on this project...
• Article Semillas del Futuro Huerto Comunitario: Seeds of the Future Community Garden This garden has been operating in La Manzanilla del Mar, Jalisco, Mexico since 2012. La Manzanilla is a small fishing village on the Pacific Coast about 200 kilometres...
• Article Leek and Potato Soup Try this creamy leek and potato soup recipe on a cold winter day –it’s very easy to make. Serve it with a thick piece of crusty bread and a...
• Article Garlic and Potato Soup As we descend into fall, here’s a simple but hearty soup that makes use of this year’s crop of garlic and new potatoes. Our eight-year-old reviewer says that...
• Article Kohlrabi and Potato Cakes When our kohlrabi is ready for harvest, it’s got to come out of the garden before it gets woody on the bottom. So we’re always keen for a...
• Article Potato Uses Chart See the chart below for potato uses in the kitchen. Use this chart to select varieties to grow depending on how you like to enjoy your potatoes. This...
• Page Articles & Instructions Browse West Coast Seeds wide variety of articles and gardening instructions. Full of useful information, product instructions, tips, tricks and more to make your gardening experience easy and...
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• Article Aloo Gobi Recipe This Aloo Gobi recipe is a perfected version of the standby vegetable side from northern India. While it lacks sauce, it is rich enough to be eaten with flat...
• Page Our Newsletter Seasonal Planting Reminders & Newsletters Email sign up for our Seasonal Planting Reminders News. Receive notice of special flower and vegetable seed releases. Find out about unpublished seed...
• Article Chickpea Pulau Recipe Here’s a one-pot, simple, very healthy vegan meal that is guaranteed to get you through the coldest winter weather. The spice level can be adjusted to your taste...
• Article Caldo Verde Recipe Caldo Verde Recipe by Jude Peixoto MacNair, Customer Service, West Coast Seeds. Caldo Verde is a traditional Portuguese soup made with couves (kale), batata doce (sweet potato) for the...
• Article Chitting Germinating seed before sowing. This is always done for potatoes, and may also be done for other seeds, such as sweetcorn, by placing them in a damp, warm...
• Article Grow Food Not Lawns City Beet is an urban farm growing vegetables and cut flowers on residential front and backyards in Vancouver, BC on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the...
• Page Ordering and Shipping Shipping Policies. West Coast Seeds ships anywhere in North America. However, we are not able to ship garlic, potatoes, asparagus crowns, bulbs, onion sets, Mason bee cocoons, or...
• Article How to Grow Tomatoes Summer-ripened tomatoes are a good source of vitamin C and beta-carotene. The lycopene in the tomatoes is an anti-oxidant, but is only released when the tomatoes are cooked....
• Article What areas do you ship to? West Coast Seeds offers shipping to Canada and the United States. Please note: Due to border restrictions, we cannot ship plant stock (including garlic, potatoes, onion sets, hops, asparagus crowns,...
• Article How to Grow Chickpeas Grow chickpeas as a garden vegetable, as a cover crop, or for sprouting seeds. To produce mature chickpeas, just follow these simple directions on how to grow chickpeas....
• Article Companion Planting These guidelines to companion planting are just suggestions to keep in mind. Each garden is unique and many factors should be considered during the planning stage. These factors...
• Article Sardis Secondary School Farm (SSSF) A Brief History and Introduction to Today The idea of the Sardis Secondary School Farm (SSSF) started in 2010; the first crop was seeded in the spring of...
• Page Refunds and Returns Simple Returns If you are not completely satisfied with any of our seeds, we will replace them or credit your account. Seeds are eligible to be returned within...
• Article When will my seasonal items ship? Spring Seasonal Items (Potatoes, Spring Bulbs, Asparagus Crowns, Onion Sets) Spring seasonal items which include potatoes, spring flower bulbs, asparagus crowns, and onion sets begin shipping as soon...
• Article About Leeks Leeks (Allium ampeloprasum, var. porrum, syn. A. porrum) This member of the Allium family is thought to have been in cultivation since the 2nd century BC, from ancient...