OK, you got some shipping. But even so, 4 pounds of seed potatoes for $39 seems $$ to me. (I gave up gardening a while back, so am not up to date.)
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you can buy yukon gold in the grocery around here. not a crazy price though for seed potatoes that are certified disease free. Though pick something more interesting than something from the store!
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They are way cheaper at Home Depot.
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Our local feed store has them from 5.99 to 11.99 a pound. Roughly 15 types. Local favorites; particularly Reds and fingerling.
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I bought a bag of organic yellow potatoes from Walmart. They are all growing well from the chips. Not sure if yellow is a variety or just their color. Low price somewhere near $4/bag. I cooked a couple and they had a good taste.
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The fundamental issue you are highlighting is inflation. Over the last 20 years, it has roughly quadrupled cost of many items I grow. That said, when I wanted Sarpo Una, Sarpo Shona, and Sarpo Mira seed potatoes, I purchased a pound of each from wood prairie farm for about $70.
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My local southern states sells them for about 80 cents per pound
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May be Yellow Finn.
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Same here. At 50 pounds.
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The list price there is ~6.50 a pound, so this is on the low end of that range. I think that’s about what I paid at the fancy pants garden center.
Shipping is about a quarter of the total price here, I wouldn’t consider that “some shipping”. It’s $11 in shipping on $26 of potatoes
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Down here in FL, the local feed store had them for 49 cents/pound, I was thinking of buying some to eat.
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This year I went overbudget on fruit trees so I didn’t buy any, but I pick mine up at American Seed Co (local to me) and they run under $1/lb. Lots of variety selection.
My approach to seed potatoes is this.
I buy the variety to test first. A small quantity. If I like it, I save all the potatoes left. I continue to aggressively save my potatoes until the population is big enough for me to sustain year after year.
This eliminates poorly suited varieties to my area. I really like Purple Viking’s taste (they are sweet), but they were so scabbed up that they would best be called Brown Viking.
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Lasoda, Pontiac, Kennebec and Irish Cobbler do the best here. Fingerlings usually work well.
Love the flavor of German Butterball. But it comes out ugly and only modest yields.
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Good question! I spent WAY too much on seed potatoes from Wood Prairie Farms. I think it came to $122.16 with tax and shipping? 
But, I like trying a variety of things, so for $39.99 I got a mix called Experimenter’s Special where they let you choose 4 varieties. So I ordered two of those and got: Adirondak Red, Purple Viking, Yukon Gold, Red Port, Baltic Rose, Huckleberry Gold, Carola, Keuka Gold. I also ordered a separate 1/2 lb of Sarpo Una, and I think they were running a special at that time, so a got a free 1/2 lb of Sarpo Mira with my order.
What am I gonna do with that many potatoes? No clue. But they’re fun to grow, aren’t they? 
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My rows are 200 feet long. I planted 100 feet of potatoes so far. Please don’t encourage me to get more potatoes! 
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We might plant out 6-8 tater towers. Most of our starch will be sorghum and buckwheat this year.
But you’ve got plenty of room to grow them!
/me runs screaming cause SoxPNW has designs on me!
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