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Potato Information
Potato
Solanum tunerosum
Potatoes are the edible tubors. There are many varieties and colours available. Potatoes are grown in rows and the soil around the base of the plant is piled high to encourage the growth of more tubors, and to prevent the sun light from discolouring the tubours.
Moon Planting Type: Root
Soil Type: Any Soil
Aspect: Any aspect
Light: Full Sun
Hardiness: Hardy
Moisture: Well-drained
pH: Acid (6.5 - 5.5)
Height:
Spread:
Potato Growing Notes
Sowing
Early varieties should be placed in fruit trays or egboxes with their eyes facing upwards. Leave them in warm light conditions until small sprouting shoots have grown 3cm. This process is called 'chitting'. Once 'chitting has taken place you can now plant them out. Gardeners World performed a trail of chitted and non chitted potatoes and the overall results where in favour of chitting to improve yeilds. Maincrop potatoes do not need chitting.
Planting out the chitted potatoes into a trench 15cm deep and 35cm apart. Keep 45cm between rows to rake soil over the tubors as they grow.
Pruning & Thining
Harvesting
Harvest early crops when they are flowering, and the main crop is harvested a week or two after the brown plants have been removed.
Potato Varieties
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A unique and brilliant design which will allow you to enjoy freshly harvested new potatoes from your own garden and patio, no matter how small it is. Made from twinwall polypropylene, it features lift...more£32.25
This fine new early maincrop potato is perfect for the garden as it crops well and has excellent all round disease resistance. Dig from late summer and expect to harvest large oval white skinned tuber...more£6.95
If you are looking for a potato to mash or bake then Sunrise is one to try. Classed as a second early it's ready to harvest from late July and gives very large creamy tubers with a pretty pink eye. We...more£6.95
A highly sought-after variety, widely appreciated for its taste and texture. Produces high yields of attractive potatoes that are lower in carbohydrates and calories than other varieties, making it id...more£6.95
an excellent all-round potato combining delicious taste and floury texture with good yields. Rooster produces outstanding chips and it is perfect for mashing and roasting. Skin Colour - Red. Flesh Col...more£6.95
A first-class salad variety producing heavy crops of large round-oval tubers with a firm, waxy texture, and delicious flavour. Good resistance to scab. Skin Colour - Yellow. Flesh Colour - Yellow. Use...more£6.95
Grow pound after pound of mouth watering new potatoes on your very own doorstep with our special Potato Starter Kit. The kit comprises three sturdy Potato Buckets - they're the perfect shape (plant ...more£24.95
If you already have the containers then all you need is our refill pack to plant them up again - 5 tubers each of: Red Duke of York - This heritage variety is one of the few red skinned earlies. H...more£4.95
This collection comprises 30 seed potato tubers (10 of each variety), all are ideal for container or garden growing!: Lady Christl - An excellent first early variety that can be dug around 8 weeks...more£8.95
An excellent first early variety that can be dug around 8 weeks from planting. The smooth creamy tubers are very attractive and are good for exhibition. Freshly dug and boiled there is no finer taste ...more£6.95
This very old variety is still held in high regards for its deep blue skin and excellent taste. The tubers are very floury when cooked and make lovely mash! they are best steamed to avoid disintegrati...more£6.95
This early has good disease resistance particularly from scab and blight. Has creamy oval tubers with good flavour and bakes well as it ages. A good all rounder. Skin Colour - Light yellow. Flesh Colo...more£6.95
Beautiful round, smooth rosy red tubers that are very popular with exhibitors. The white flesh is firm and waxy and boils and bakes well. Flavour is excellent. RHS Award of Garden Merit. Skin Colour -...more£6.95
One of the best looking potatoes which always catches the show judges eye for its purple splashed tubers! Has a wonderful old fashioned taste and is particularly good for chips and roast potatoes as i...more£6.95
A modern second early with strong overall disease resistance which is capable of exceptional yields of white oval tubers. Has firm waxy flesh which is particularly suitable for boiling. Very smooth sk...more£6.95
All season taster collection comprising of 30 seed potatoes (10 tubers of each variety): Lady Christl (First Early) (replacing Accent as unfortunately this variety now sold out) - An excellent first...more£8.75
An early maturing salad variety that gives a good yield of attractive smallish oval tubers. The yellow flesh is very firm and waxy with a very fine taste. Water well in dry seasons. Skin Colour - Yell...more£6.95
A firm favourite with many gardeners who appreciate its very tasty firm waxy flesh and smooth creamy skin. Accent is superb as a new potato hot or cold and does not crack as the tubers grow larger. Al...more£6.95
Known as the 'king of the bakers' for its large round part coloured tubers which so suit this purpose. Good for most other purposes too and easy to grow with high yields and excellent resistance to di...more£6.95
A cross between Desiree and Pink Fir Apple which shares qualities of both parents. Anya has Pink Fir's fine nutty taste yet is 8 weeks earlier and the long tubers do not have the awkward branches that...more£6.95
An old favourite that was actually introduced by Suttons over fifty years ago. The white round tubers are deliciously firm and waxy when young and retain their fine taste as the flesh dries a little o...more£6.95
This heritage variety is one of the few red skinned earlies. Has a fine flavour at first digging and can get quite large as it matures when it bakes and chips well. RHS Award of Garden Merit. Skin Col...more£6.95
Grow this very early variety for the first new potatoes of summer. Pure white flesh which is quite soft and waxy and gives heavy crops. Delicious with mint and a knob of butter! Skin Colour - White. F...more£6.95
This old favourite needs good soil to do well and crops are more modest than some but it's well worth growing as it is unsurpassed for roasting and the floury flesh makes fine mash too when steamed. S...more£6.95
A very well known early for digging after the very first potatoes have finished. Maris Bard has soft waxy creamy white flesh and a distinctive slightly earthy taste. High yielding and reliable. Skin C...more£6.95
A familiar second early that was originally bred for the canning trade and produces a large crop of regular round small to medium sized tubers. Good as a follow on to earlies and the tubers are waxy a...more£6.95
Remains a firm favourite of many for its rosy skin and very finely flavoured pale yellow flesh. Tubers can become very large and slightly mis-shapen but that does not detract from this very versatile ...more£6.95
Makes superb chips (as your local take-away will confirm) and is good too for mashing and baking. A reliable general purpose choice with good resistance to eelworm. Skin Colour - White. Flesh Colour -...more£6.95
Classic salad potato against which others are judged! Matures as a latish first early, producing good numbers of medium sized oval tubers with a very fine flavour. Very waxy when young and perfect hot...more£6.95
Popular early that is favoured for its tasty, white waxy fleshed tubers with good flavour. Boils well and does not discolour when cold. Skin Colour - White. Flesh Colour - White. Uses - new, boil, ste...more£6.95
One of the latest manicrops to mature but well worth the wait. Valor gives an excellent yield of large creamy white tubers that store well. Tubers have a dry firm texture and are good for baking and b...more£6.95
Very widely grown variety that is appreciated for its moist yellow flesh. Stays firm on boiling and bakes very well too. Skin Colour - Light yellow. Flesh Colour - Light yellow. Uses - boil, steam, ma...more£6.95
Made to an Old English design, this quality Potato Planter will save you time and back-ache. Crafted from steel with Beechwood handles, it is sturdy and hard-wearing. A pivoted opening cup allows hole...more£29.30
Grow a bumper crop of potatoes - even on a patio! Potato Buckets are the perfect size, shape and colour (absorbing the sun's heat) to quickly produce a really heavy crop. Plant 2-3 tubers near the bot...more£22.45
Giant Potato Buckets - Grow a bumper crop of potatoes - even on a patio! Potato Buckets are the perfect size and shape (plant 2-3 tubers near the bottom and keep topping up the compost as they grow) a...more£37.90
No more stooping and bending to plant bulbs and tubers - let our long-handled planter take the strain. It has a strong steel frame with 15cm (6") tapererd bowl, and comfortable beech wood handles. Ove...more£21.50
An organic based granular fertiliser with a formula ideal for potatoes. The oraganic based granules ensure a slow release effect for steady controlled growth to give a high quality crop. 7-5-12 + magn...more£8.95
Sharing his 'overwhelming enthusiasm for the humble spud' and a lifetime's experience in the seed potato industry, Alan Romans combines an engaging account of potato growing with an expert guide to ov...more£16.99
With these tough, green woven polyethylene bags you can enjoy a bumper crop of delicious home-grown potatoes on your patio! They have holes for drainage, handles for easy moving and can be folded away...more£14.95
Lady Balfour has excellent resistant to major diseases including blight scab and virus Y as well as strong resistance to eelworm. Gives very high yields even in soils with low fertility. This means t...more£7.45
Uniform shallow-eyed long-oval tubers 50% bigger than other salad varieties. Tender creamy-yellow flesh remains very firm and has a mouthwatering flavour hot or in salads! Still our favourite salad po...more£6.95
Anya has superb flavour and texture - yet the tubers do not become branched and broken so its easier to prepare. Can be lifted earlier at any time from early July. Foliage is more compact and manage...more£7.95
This has become very popular with all who have tried it. The creamy long oval tubers are superb ina potato salad flavoured with mayonnaise and a few freshly chopped chives. Yields are excellent with...more£7.95
This Heritage salad potato was bred in 1850! Don't be put off by this variety's knobbly appearance! It has the most superb new potato flavour that lasts well into the New Year. Ready in October it pr...more£7.95
For decades this white skinned and white fleshed variety has been a UK favourite First Early. With a firm waxy texture and lovely flavour it is best appreciated when cooked straight from the garden.De...more£6.75
The earliest we have seen - producing a good crop of waxy white potatoes with a delicate new potato taste in as little as 7 weeks from planting. Note: Swift has a very short haulm. We recommend planti...more£6.95
A little later than other First Earlies it can also be left to mature to give a high yield. Ideal for boiling or in salads the white waxy flesh has a creamy texture. Has good disease resistance and do...more£6.45
Pure white flesh which is waxy and soft at first digging. Many customers have been delighted by the earliness ease of culture and size of crop praising its uniform exhibition quality round tubers.Deli...more£6.75
This Second Early has firm white flesh which does not break up or discolour on cooking. Expect heavy yields of medium sized tubers which are good boiled. If harvested when small they are particularly ...more£6.45
Beautiful round tubers with smooth bright red skin. White waxy flesh which stays firm when cooked. A heavy cropping variety producing large tubers whatever soil it is grown in. Customers consistently ...more£6.75
Second Early for July lifting. With its extra smooth skin with attractive purple eyes this variety has time and time again been a prize winner at many an exhibition. Makes good chips and roasts well b...more£6.75
Pink and white tubers with floury white flesh. The shallow eyed tubers will be appreciated in the kitchen and on the show-bench. Heavy cropper excellent for long storage. Good blight resistance.Delive...more£6.75
An old but still very popular traditional variety and deservedly so. The oval tubers have attractive red splashes over the eyes. Ideal for baking and roasting.Delivery - Subject to prevailing conditio...more£6.45
This red skinned yellow fleshed maincrop produces heavy crops of bold tubers even in dry seasons. These have a waxy texture and excellent flavour. Wonderful for baking and lovely mashed it stores well...more£6.45
A widely grown commercial variety - it's often called 'the chippies choice' - but well worth growing in the kitchen garden for its high yields of top flavoured tubers which makes it perfect for chips....more£6.45
Our Second early and maincrop duo set includes:Kestrel- With its extra smooth skin with attractive purple eyes this variety has time and time again been a prize winner at many an exhibition!Desiree - ...more£10.20
The Grow Anywhere Potato Gro-Sack... for the earliest new potatoesThe Perfect Way to Grow Potatoes on:PatiosBack YardsRoof TerracesFirst Early Potato Rocket producing extra-early new potatoes with pur...more£13.95
Get the very best from your Potato crop with our easy-to-use pelleted fertiliser. Carefully balanced formula particularly high in readily available potash. Because it is concentrated the application r...more£12.95
Keep your potatoes in tip-top condition with our top quality Hessian Potato Sacks from our seed potato supplier Marshalls. Made from heavy-duty hessian they help prevent light transmission and unlike ...more£8.95
