baby new potato collection
baby new potato collection
Great for gardeners who want to try different varieties, or have limited space and want to grow their potatoes on the patio, the 5 tubers in each pack are the perfect number to plant in our specialist planters.
How to care for baby new potato collection:
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.
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 .
- 'Swift': Hailed as one of the earliest croppers, with white-skinned, oval potatoes that have a creamy coloured flesh that is ideal for boiling. Their compact habit makes them ideal for containers.
- '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.
Eventual height:
0.5m
Eventual spread:
0.45m
Position:
Full sun
Rate of growth:
Fast-growing
Soil:
Moderately fertile, moist, but well-drained soil, or general-purpose loam-based potting compost
Hardiness:
Frost tender
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