Early Spring Veg
These veg need to be planted before spring is fully underway, some as early as February. See product details for planting information.
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Colleen Seed Potatoes (Organic/First Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)Good resistance to diseases
Colleen is a great all-round Irish potato with yellow flesh and skin and has a good disease resistance. If early blight is a problem in your part of the UK, this is a good variety to choose. It is a first early, so you can expect to harvest it in June/July.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Colleen (organic)
In the kitchen: This variety of potato is excellent for boiling and frying.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Java Seed Potatoes (Maincrop)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)A fantastic potato with excellent blight resistance!
Java is a fantastic potato to grow: it is very versatile in the kitchen, perfect for roasting, chipping or baking, and it has good blight resistance which is ideal for growing in the UK. As a maincrop variety, you can expect to harvest in August/September, and they store well.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Java
In the kitchen: A real all-rounder in the kitchen making great roasters, bakers and chips.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Picasso Seed Potatoes (Maincrop)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)Good blight resistance
A lovely looking potato, with waxy texture, smooth white skins and pink ‘eyes’, Picasso has fairly high disease resistance which makes it a trouble-free grower. It tends to produce large crops and stores well too.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Picasso
In the kitchen: We like this variety for boiling – potato salads – and for gratins
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Red Duke of York Seed Potatoes (First Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)A great all rounder
This heritage variety dates back to 1942. It produces red, thick skinned tubers with soft fluffy yellow flesh. They are a good option for gardens that tend to get hit by blight, as they are usually ready to harvest in June/July (like most first earlies) and provide an early crop of potatoes that are good for mashing and roasting alongside all the lovely salad potatoes.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Red Duke of York
In the kitchen: These can be roasted, mashed, baked or used for making chips.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Rocket Seed Potatoes (First Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)Quick growers that produce a heavy crop
Named for its speed of growth, Rocket potatoes will produce a fairly heavy crop very early on in the season, often as early as the first week or so of June. The potatoes are waxy in texture, and pleasingly round and uniform in shape. They are a good new potato option, especially if you’re growing for the first time as you’ll find you get lots to dig up!
Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Rocket (First Early)
In the Kitchen: Use as a new potato – boiled with plenty of butter and seasoned well!
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Setanta Seed Potatoes (Organic/Maincrop)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)A fantastic potato to grow!
Setanta is a new Irish variety of potato with the ever-popular Rooster as one of its parent lines. It has a fairly high resistance to blight which makes it a particularly popular maincrop choice (maincrop potatoes tend to be in the ground at around the time blight normally hits, in late summer, whilst earlies have often been harvested already.) Yields are good with red skinned tubers with creamy yellow flesh.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Setanta (organic)
In the kitchen: It is excellent for roasting, baking and for making chips.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Charlotte Seed Potatoes (Salad)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)A classic salad potato, and a very popular one!
This salad potato is high yielding with long, yellow tubers and waxy, tasty flesh. It will provide you with an excellent crop of delicious salad-sized potatoes that will store well. This variety has good blight resistance and you can expect to harvest in July. All in all, it is one of the most popular varieties to grow, for good reason!Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Charlotte
In the kitchen: This variety of potato is suitable for boiling, mashing, steamed or sautéed.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Kestrel Seed Potatoes (Second Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)Good taste, and good slug resistance
Kestrel is a great looking potato, but its real qualities come in the form of flavour and slug-resistance. It is a particularly good choice for those with heavy, clay-type soils. With fun purple and white patchy skin, and very versatile in the kitchen, this is definitely one of our favourites. Be aware, it doesn’t do brilliantly if the soil dries out, so if you live in a drier part of the country or have sandy soil, you’ll need to water frequently (or go for a different variety!) Usually ready to harvest in July.
Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Kestrel
In the kitchen: Great for boiling, mash, chips, roast
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Wilja Seed Potatoes (Second Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)Produces high yields of large potatoes
Wilja is a great all-rounder. It is a second early, so should be ready to harvest in July assuming conditions are favourable. It’s one of those varieties that is great for roasting, for chips, and for jacket potatoes, and it has a good, slightly earthy (but not overpowering) flavour.
Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Wilja
In the kitchen: Great for boiling
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February
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Maris Peer Seed Potatoes (Second Early)
£4.99
(10 Tubers)A trusted favourite & good for planting late…
This amazingly popular variety produces reliably regular round shaped and medium sized potatoes. They will normally be ready to harvest in July, and since the texture remains firm they are particularly well suited to boiling. One of the things we like about them is that you can choose to plant them a bit later in the year for a Christmas crop – if you’d like to do this, store the seed potatoes in a dry paper sack (with a few holes for air circulation) in a cool, dark place and plant them in July. Otherwise, pop them in the ground in March/April after chitting and harvest in July.Number of tubers (seed potatoes): 10
Variety: Maris Peer
In the kitchen: This variety has many uses including boiling for salads, steaming and chipping.
Delivery: We start shipping seed potatoes in February