Seed Potato Parts

We used to cut our seed potatoes and let them heal or scarify . May be using the wrong word.

Here is a video on one way.

Your last sentence is correct, at least it was way back when. Between 1947 and '50, I worked week-ends and after school for a farmer who grew many hundreds of acres of potatoes. One of my jobs in the spring was cutting seed potatoes but it wasn't by hand per se. My job was putting potatoes in a series of about 6 cups in a row across on an endless chain conveyor belt. The chain would move forward, stop, a row of + shaped knives would drop and cut each potato into four pieces then the chain would move forward again until the next set of cups would stop under the knives. At the speed you had to work to keep the cups filled, there was no consideration given to getting eyes in each piece. Today, many large growers employ more high-tech methods such as high pressure water jets or lasers for cutting seed potatoes.

Ross. Southern Ontario, Canada. AgCanada Zone 5b

Very interesting, thanks for posting. So it appears that enough segments end up with eyes to make this a viable method.

Did you have a specific word to describe the segments after cutting?

Paul

It was a long time ago but I seem to remember them only being refereed to as 'seed pieces'.

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Maybe today they would be called 'wedges'

In the seed catalogs I see them called sets. -Doug

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As in badger sets? The OP asked about cutting the potatoes into peices not what the potato is called as a whole tuber DUH???

Your point is what?

Marq