Main Crop Potato Pink Fir Apple

Potato Pink Fir Apple

• Position: sun-partial shade
• Soil: fertile, well drained
• Rate of growth: fast-growing
• Harvesting period: October
• Hardiness: protect tubers from frost
  
  We sell potatoes by weight but you can expect to receive about 40-50 tubers of this variety in a 2.5kg bag. All of our potatoes are certified Scottish seed potatoes ensuring crop quality.
  
  A Heritage salad potato bred in 1850. This late maincrop potato has knobbly pink skinned tubers of butter yellow, waxy flesh. An unusual potato that's great as a salad potato but can also be used to make delicious chips - with a single tuber for each chip! It has been given an Award of Garden Merit (AGM) by the Royal Horticultural Society.
  
  
• Garden care: As soon as the potato tubers have been delivered you should unpack them and start the chitting (sprouting) process. Place them in single layer in a seed tray without compost and leave in a light, cool area protected from frost. This can be started about six weeks before you intend to plant them. Early varieties can be planted out under frost fleece protection, but the later varieties should be planted after the worst frosts have passed in your area - this is generally mid March to mid April. Dig a trench 8 - 13cm (3 - 5in) deep adding a general purpose fertiliser to the bottom of the trench. Plant the potato tubers in the trenches about 30cm (12in) apart, being careful not to knock the shoots off the tubers, and keeping the shoots facing upwards. Then lightly cover with soil. As the plants get to around 20cm (8in) tall you need to bank up the soil around the plant, so the soil covers the bottom two thirds of the plant. Watering your plants well will help improve crop yield and discourage potato scab.