‘Sagitta’ is not available this year, ‘British Queen’ and ‘Gemson’ we’ve stopped stocking due to poor sales but we’ve added ‘Nadine’ and ‘Saxon’.
Plant Second Early seed potatoes mid-late March, dependant on weather conditions. All of our Scottish seed potatoes are supplied by JBA (Jamieson Brothers of Annan) and are certified virus free.
Apply 135g/sq m (4oz per sq yard) of fertiliser to the soil before planting and gently work into the soil.
Estimated harvest time 13 – 15 weeks.
ACOUSTIC
This new variety has shown to have a very strong resistance to blight. Lifted as a second early, its texture is a bit waxier and perfect for salads and boiling. It becomes a little flourier if left to mature and lifted later in the season, making it suitable for chips, baking, mashing and roasting. Expect high yields of round potatoes with a pale-yellow flesh and a superb taste. Good disease resistance.
Blight Resistant
Best kitchen uses: BOIL – SALAD
CHARLOTTE
Charlotte is the most popular salad potato in the UK. The tubers are long with yellow skin and waxy flesh. It has been awarded the RHS AGM.
Blight Resistant
Best kitchen uses: BOIL – MASH – SALAD
ESTIMA
Estima seed potatoes are commonly the ‘baking potato’ of choice sold in most supermarkets, and produces heavy crops of large oval tubers with light yellow skin and flesh. They show good resistance to growth cracks and secondary growth, and are one of the most popular potato varieties in the UK.
Best kitchen uses: BOIL – MASH – BAKE
KESTREL
One of our overall best selling variety for many years! One of the best tasting potatoes with excellent cooking qualities and disease resistance. If you only grow one variety then this is it!
Organic – Blight Resistant
Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP – MASH – ROAST
MARIS PEER
Maris Peer tubers are oval in shape with a firm creamy coloured flesh and white skin. Good resistance to diseases and unusually has scented flowers. A variety suited to second cropping for harvesting at Christmas.
Organic
Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – SALAD
NADINE
Nadine seed potatoes are one of the most successful varieties, introduced around 1987 by famous potato breeder, Jack Dunnett. Nadine tubers are round in shape with a clean, white skin and cream coloured flesh. A high yielding seed potato variety, Nadine produces many tubers at the root and are a popular showbench variety.
Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP – MASH
NICOLA
Nicola. A very popular salad variety with long oval tubers, yellow skin and waxy light yellow flesh. Another variety popular for late planting to harvest at Christmas. Good resistance to diseases.
Organic Best kitchen uses: BOIL – MASH – SALAD
SAXON
Saxon seed potatoes are a modern-day second early variety that produces large crops of long-oval shaped, white skinned tubers. The flesh of Saxon potatoes is firm and yellow in colour, ideal for all kitchen uses.
Saxon is widely regarded to be amongst the very best tasting of all modern seed potato varieties.
Best kitchen uses: CHIP – BOIL – BAKE – ROAST
WILJA
Wilja produces large consistent crops of light yellow skinned tubers. The flesh is yellow and firm and quite waxy. Very versatile in the kitchen. Very good resistance to scab.
Best kitchen uses: BAKE – BOIL – CHIP – MASH – ROAST