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Potato Day 2025 will be on Saturday 25th January

Several varieties not available this year due to poor harvest, ‘Arran Pilot’, ‘Home Guard’, ‘Intl Kidney’ & ‘Sharpes Express’. We now have available ‘Foremost’ and ‘Winston’.

Waiting for 2025 pricing

Pre-order price = 20p

Potato Day price = 22p

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Caledonian Pearl. This is a similar variety to International Kidney (Jersey Royals) which are sometimes in short supply. Tubers are of a kidney shape with shallow eyes and white flesh/skin.

Heritage variety     Best kitchen uses:  BOIL – SALAD

Casablanca. A new white skinned variety with shallow eyes. Brilliant exhibition variety and versatile in the kitchen too. Very early – crops in as little as 62 days! This variety is very good when grown in containers.

Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP – MASH – ROAST

Foremost seed potatoes (originally called Suttons Foremost) are a variety of heritage seed potatoes first added to the national variety list in 1954. It does have good common scabresistance.

Foremost potatoes are short to oval in shape with white skin and waxy white flesh. Bake them, boil them or throw them in a salad.

Heritage variety     Best kitchen uses:  BOIL – BAKE

Maris Bard. Oval shaped with white skins, shallow tuber eyes and white flesh, best suited to boiling and early salad use in the kitchen – simply dig, wash, boil and serve. Good resistance against common scab.

Best kitchen uses:  BOIL – CHIP – SALAD

Pentland Javelin. Considered one of the best First Early varieties you can grow. Javelin produces heavy crops of oval white skinned tubers with pure white tasty flesh. Good all-round disease resistance.

Heritage variety     Best kitchen uses: BOIL – CHIP – SALAD

Premiere is a high yielding variety, oval-to-round in shape, with shallow eyes. They are popular due to their great all round disease and pest resistance. Premiere tubers have lemon coloured skin and flesh and is very tasty.

Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP –  ROAST – SALAD

Red Duke of York. Red skinned tubers with shallow eyes and yellow flesh. Red Dukes are a dry mealy potato packed with flavour. Does not disintegrate on boiling.

Heritage variety     Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP –  ROAST

Rocket. A very early bulking and heavy cropping first early variety producing almost round, white skinned and fleshed tubers. Rocket has good all round disease resistance including golden eelworm. Easy to grow and quick to produce ‘baby new potatoes’ and is particular well suited to growing in containers and potato bags.

Best kitchen uses: BOIL

Swift is considered the earliest Early variety with crops harvested well within two months. A high yielding variety that produces a round to oval white tuber with creamy flesh. A real all-rounder in the kitchen with great disease resistance. An ideal variety to grow in containers for early use.

Organic – Heritage variety     

Best kitchen uses:   BAKE – BOIL – CHIP – MASH -SALAD

Winston seed potatoes have proved to be both a commercial and an exhibition success all in one. This white skinned variety has been unstoppable on the showbench circuit winning many titles year after year.

Winston produces high yields of smooth, shallow eyed, tubers that are short to oval in shape. Their flesh has a firm texture and a creamy colour, whilst their very low, dry matter would see Winston described as a wet potato. These seed potatoes also have excellent all round potato disease resistance.

Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Best kitchen uses:   BAKE – BOIL – CHIP