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To plant, dig a trench 15cm (6in) deep, place the seed potatoes along the base with the sprouts upwards. Cover with at least 2.5cm (1in) of soil, taking care not to damage the sprouts, and water well. Alternatively, you can dig individual holes for each seed potato. Earlies – plant 30cm (1ft) apart, in rows 60cm (2ft) apart.
- 'Charlotte'
- 'Vivaldi'
- 'Maris Peer'
- 'Kestrel'
- 'Ratte'
- 'Lady Balfour'
- 'Jazzy'
'Charlotte'is a popular variety, often on sale in supermarkets. It produces lots of long, large, smooth tubers with a waxy texture and very good flavour. Like ‘Vivaldi’, it’s a good all-rounder that can be cooked in many different ways. As well as being a favourite salad potato, 'Charlotte' tubers also make great small jacket potatoes.
'Vivaldi' has pale yellow flesh, an excellent flavour and velvety texture. It’s a brilliant all-rounder, so a good choice if you only want to grow one variety - it came out as our top potato for bakingin a recent trial, but it’s also great for mashing and good as a boiled potato.
'Maris Peer'is a popular cultivar that produces lots of creamy yellow fleshed tubers with a good flavour. They are especially good boiled - they won’t lose their shape - and make excellent potato salad but can also be boiled, mashed, roasted or fried. It also has good disease resistance.
'Kestrel'has white flesh, splashed with violet. It is a popular variety for exhibiting. It is resistant to pests such as eelworm and slugs and blackleg and is great for boiling, frying, mashing and roasting.
Delicious 'Ratte'is very popular in France. It produces lots of small, long, smooth-skinned potatoes with yellow, waxy flesh and a nutty, chestnut flavour. Steam in their skins and eat hot or cold in salads, or mash.
‘Lady Balfour’ is a relatively new, high yielding variety has tasty, creamy flesh and pink flashes on the skin. It’s great for boiling and roasting. It’s resistant to blight and scab and is a good choice for poor soils.
'Jazzy' is a new variety that produces lots of small tubers. It has an excellent flavour and a waxy texture. It’s a very good salad potato but can also be mashed or roasted.
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
Second early potatoes need to be planted at a depth of 10cm with at least 30cm between each potato. There needs to be at least 60cm to 70cm between each row to give the potato plants enough room to grow and expand. If planting in March or early April, your potato plants will need plant protection from frosts in the form of a cold frame or ...
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- Second earlies come shortly after first early potatoes which are normally ready to harvest in June. New potatoes are so tender they don’t need to b...
- Harvest in the summer months of June or July, or around 14-16 weeks after planting. Remember that first early seed potatoes and second early seed p...
When growing potatoes in the ground, plant earlies and salad types 12cm deep and 30cm apart, with 60cm between rows. Maincrop potatoes require more space to produce a decent crop. Plant them 12cm deep and 38cm apart, with 75cm between rows. Plant potatoes with the shoots (or 'eyes') facing upwards.
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
Depending on how many potatoes you want to harvest, you can plant 1- 2 seed potatoes per batch. On average you get about 10 – 15 tubers from one seed potato, depending on growing conditions. Normally the cycle ends in July/August when you harvest maincrop varieties. But instead of finishing, you can continue to plant new potatoes. But you ...
Jan 1, 2023 · Planting second early seed potatoes in beds. Choose a dry day during mid to late April and ensure any frost has lifted from the soil. Lightly rake the soil, in which the potato crop will be grown, into a manageable fine tilth. Using a spade, dig a trench approximately 10cm deep and then place the seed potatoes at a distance of 37cm apart and ...
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To grow potatoes in containers, choose a large container at least 40cm deep and fill it with a 15cm layer of compost. Press the seed potatoes into the compost, spaced 25cm apart, so that they are just covered. Water and place in a sunny spot. Keep adding compost to the container regularly as the plants grow, until the container is almost full.
