Potatoes

Cutting seed potatoes is a way to increase the number of potato plants grown from one seed & is used when the seed of a particular variety is scarce or very expensive. Large seed potatoes may be cut into several pieces,

Early (or new) potato varieties are planted from January to March and are ready for digging from May-July. Second earlies are planted between February and May and harvested from July to October. Examples of early potato varieties are: Ultra-Early Potato

There are three growing seasons for potatoes: * New Potatoes, or earlies * Second earlies * Maincrop Early potatoes are planted from January to March and are ready for  digging from May-July. Second earlies are planted between February and May

Always grow Certified British seed potatoes because they are rigorously inspected by official inspectors and are disease free. The inspectors: test the land producing the seed inspect the crops twice whilst growing inspect the seed at harvest High quality British

How Many Seed Potatoes to Buy? When calculating how many Seed Potatoes to buy, gardeners have to know what space is available in the vegetable garden for growing the potatoes. Potatoes are grown from ‘seed’ potatoes, which are small, immature

Our Potato seed is chitting. Chitting is the controlled production of sprouts on seed potatoes before planting. But the controlled production of sprouts is the key. The length & strength of the sprout must be controlled to give a short