Our ‘Blight Tolerant’ Collection of potato varieties will give you great resistance to blight, without sacrificing any flavour in the process. Collection comprises of: ‘Setanta’ – Voted best red skinned roasties, maincrop.; ‘Carolus’ – Maincrop, great for making chips and baking.; ‘Nicola’ – Second early that’s yellow flesh is great for boiling then eating hot or cold in salads.; ‘Colleen’ – Fluffy, first early variety, great for making mash.; ‘Cara’ – Maincrop that makes excellent home-made chips.
Growing Information
Plant your seed potatoes according to their season. First Earlies from the end of February, and Second Earlies/Maincrops from March. Prior to planting, 'chit' the seed potatoes by setting them out in a cool, bright position (10C/ 50F) to allow them to sprout.
When growing potatoes in the ground avoid planting in soil where potatoes have grown for two years in succession to reduce the risk of disease. Prepare the planting area in a sheltered position in full sun on moist well drained soil. Dig in plenty of well-rotted manure. Plant potatoes in rows at a spacing of 30cm (12"). Rows should be set out 60cm (2') apart. Place the seed potatoes into 10cm (4") deep trenches and backfill the soil to refill the trenches. When shoots reach 20cm (8"), mound up soil around the shoots leaving just a few cm showing. Repeat this process after a further 3 weeks.
Where space is limited, try growing potatoes in potato bags on the patio. Fill an 8-litre potato bag to just below the top of the bag with good quality compost mixed with some well-rotted manure. Carefully plunge a single chitted potato tuber into the compost with the shoots pointing upwards at a depth of 12cm (5") from the soil surface. Place the bags in a sunny position and water regularly to keep the compost moist.
