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Organic

Gold Rush Russet - Organic

seed potatoes
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$11.50
Item: 7040-B
$36.00
Item: 7040-C
$99.00
Item: 7040-E
Solanum tuberosum
Mid-season, russeted brown skin, white flesh.

You’ll feel rich when you start filling your crates with these hulking tubers. A perfect baking potato, and it fries up like a champ, too.

The discovery of a gold deposit in Coloma, CA, brought 300,000 people to California from 1848 to 1855. We don’t expect quite that many people to rush for this potato, but it deserves our enthusiasm for its good flavor and reliably high yields.

Russets can be fussy in our humid climate, but Gold Rush performs even in wet years or poor soils. Plant at wide spacing to allow tubers to grow to their full potential.

1992 North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station release. Uniform, smooth and resistant to hollow heart. Good resistance to scab. Susceptible to blights and fusarium.

Supplier Transparency:
① Small seed farmers including Fedco staff
ships in spring
Quick Details
Skin Color
russeted brown
Flesh Color
white
Shape
oblong
Yield
high
Storage Potential
good
Scab Resistance
good
Texture
dry, floury
Harvest Season
mid-season
Lifecycle
perennial grown as an annual
Compare
Compare with other Russet Potatoes
Variety Skin Color Flesh Color Shape Yield Storage Potential Scab Resistance Texture Harvest Season Lifecycle
Caribou Russet
Organic 		russeted brown white long medium-high excellent moderate dry, floury mid perennial grown as an annual
Gold Rush Russet
Organic 		russeted brown white oblong high good good dry, floury mid perennial grown as an annual
Russet Burbank
Organic 		russeted brown white long high excellent high dry, floury very late perennial grown as an annual
Caribou Russet russeted brown white long medium-high excellent moderate dry, floury mid perennial grown as an annual
Russet Burbank tan white long high excellent high dry, floury very late perennial grown as an annual
Additional Information

Seed Potatoes Solanum tuberosum

One pound of seed will usually plant 5–8 row feet, depending on the variety; 10# will usually plant 50 row feet.

  • Early potatoes mature in 65-80 days.
  • Midseason potatoes mature in 80-90 days
  • Late potatoes mature in more than 90 days

See Growing Potatoes for more information.

Shipping

For orders placed by February 20, 2026, this item will ship on our regular shipping schedule, starting in late March with the warmest states and finishing by early May. Orders placed after February 20, 2026 will be shipped later, and in the order in which they were received. We cannot ship this item any earlier; we regret that we cannot honor any requests to do so.