baby new potato collection
baby new potato collection
Enjoy a long and rewarding harvest with this carefully selected potato collection, bringing together a range of first early, second...
30 × seed potatoes | 5 of each
£14.99
£0.50 each
available to order from winter
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Enjoy a long and rewarding harvest with this carefully selected potato collection, bringing together a range of first early, second early and early maincrop cultivated varieties.
The collection provides a natural succession of crops, allowing you to enjoy freshly lifted potatoes over an extended season while offering an excellent balance of flavours, textures and culinary uses. Ideal for kitchen gardens, allotments and larger vegetable plots, it delivers reliable harvests with plenty of variety.
The collection provides a natural succession of crops, allowing you to enjoy freshly lifted potatoes over an extended season while offering an excellent balance of flavours, textures and culinary uses. Ideal for kitchen gardens, allotments and larger vegetable plots, it delivers reliable harvests with plenty of variety.
Eventual height & spread
Plant features
Position
Full sun
Rate of growth
Fast-growing
Soil
Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, or peat-free general purpose compost
Hardiness
Frost tender
How to care for baby new potato collection:
As soon as your seed potatoes arrive, unpack them and if you've time, start chitting by placing them in a single layer in a light, cool, frost-free spot. Begin this around six weeks before planting. While not essential, chitting will help get your potatoes off to a good start, and subsequently they'll produce an earlier harvest. There’s also no need to chit autumn or Christmas potatoes, as these are planted in summer.
First early and second early seed potatoes can be planted outdoors under fleece protection, while maincrops should wait until the risk of frost has eased, usually from mid-April. Autumn and Christmas potatoes are planted straight into trenches or potato bags from late July.
Dig a trench 8-13cm (3-5in) deep and add a balanced fertiliser before planting the tubers 30cm (12in) apart with the shoots facing upwards (if present), then cover lightly with soil. If using potato bags, plant into general-purpose compost with at least 20cm (8in) beneath the tubers.
When shoots reach about 20cm (8in) tall, earth up soil or compost around the stems to cover the lower two-thirds of the plant. Keep plants well watered as this boosts yield and helps prevent scab.
Planting and harvest times depend on the type:
First earlies: Plant mid-March to April and lift 10-12 weeks later (June to early July).
Second earlies: Plant early to mid-April and lift after 13-14 weeks (mid-July to August).
Maincrop: Plant from mid-April and harvest after 15-20 weeks (late August to October).
Autumn/Christmas: Plant from late July and lift from 12 weeks, protecting plants from frost.
First early and second early seed potatoes can be planted outdoors under fleece protection, while maincrops should wait until the risk of frost has eased, usually from mid-April. Autumn and Christmas potatoes are planted straight into trenches or potato bags from late July.
Dig a trench 8-13cm (3-5in) deep and add a balanced fertiliser before planting the tubers 30cm (12in) apart with the shoots facing upwards (if present), then cover lightly with soil. If using potato bags, plant into general-purpose compost with at least 20cm (8in) beneath the tubers.
When shoots reach about 20cm (8in) tall, earth up soil or compost around the stems to cover the lower two-thirds of the plant. Keep plants well watered as this boosts yield and helps prevent scab.
Planting and harvest times depend on the type:
First earlies: Plant mid-March to April and lift 10-12 weeks later (June to early July).
Second earlies: Plant early to mid-April and lift after 13-14 weeks (mid-July to August).
Maincrop: Plant from mid-April and harvest after 15-20 weeks (late August to October).
Autumn/Christmas: Plant from late July and lift from 12 weeks, protecting plants from frost.
What's included:
This collection contains five tubers of each of the following varieties:
- 'Casablanca': A new, multi-purpose first early potato with a smooth white skin, shallow eyes and a creamy flesh. A handsome potato, that is rapidly becoming the exhibitors (and chefs) favourite.
- 'Charlotte': A very popular salad variety, which produces pear-shaped, yellow skinned waxy potatoes with creamy-yellow flesh. They are full of flavour and delicious either hot or cold. This variety also has high resistance to foliage and tuber blight.
- 'Maris Piper': A much-loved and versatile early maincrop, 'Maris Piper' is a high yielding variety with a cream-white flesh that rarely discolours when cooked. It is often considered the best potato for making chips, but it's fluffy texture also makes it ideal for baking, roasting, mashing, boiling - or making wedges. It also stores well.
- 'Rocket': A very heavy cropping variety with pure white flesh, which is waxy and soft at first digging. Easy to grow, it produces a bumper, early crop. It also has good all round disease resistance .
- 'Francis': One of the earliest potatoes to get going, this versatile first early cultivated variety produces impressive crops of smooth white tubers with pale yellow flesh and a great flavour. The long, oval potatoes develop quickly and are ideal for gardeners who want a generous harvest without waiting for the maincrop season.
- 'Nicola': Excellent boiled and served either hot or cold, these second early potatoes are smooth and oval in shape with superb flavour. Introduced in 1973, this is a modern-type salad potato.
Warning
Humans/Pets: Seed potatoes and plants - Harmful if eaten
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