Now available in the shop, please see below for the varieties we're stocking this year. All bags of 2.5kg are just £3.50!
First Earlies
Caledonian Pearl - A new, high yielding variety that are hardy and easy to grow. Yellow-skinned tubers that set quickly so that they can be harvested early and a waxy flesh that makes them perfect salad potatoes.
Casablanca - These seed potatoes have also been noted to have good resistance to common-scab and powdery-scab, an exhibitors delight with great cooking ability. Chip, bake, boil, mash or roast
Pentland Javelin - Heavy crops of short oval white skinned tubers with pure white tasty flesh. A great potato to use for salads it also has good all-round disease resistance to common scab and blackleg.
Red Duke of York - Winner of the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) and sold by many supermarkets in their premium range. They are a dry, mealy potato packed with flavour and do not disintegrate on boiling.
Rocket - Favoured for their rapid growth and sizeable, consistent yields. Exhibiting white skin and flesh, they have a mild taste and shallow eyes, harvest Rockets early to prevent tuber cracking.
Second Earlies
Charlotte - long with yellow skins and firm, yellow waxy flesh, superb for salads and boiling. Charlotte have excellent cooking qualities and are full of flavour. Very good levels of foliage and tuber blight resistance.
Kestrel - This potato has taken the exhibition scene by storm because of its consistent size and colour. One of the best tasting seed potato varieties available with excellent cooking uses and disease resistance.
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.
Maincrop
Cara – Round with white skin and pink eyes. A robust seed potato variety with excellent drought resistance and good all round disease resistance. Best suited to baking, boiling, chipping and roasting.
Desiree - Oval, red skinned tubers with pale yellow flesh. Excellent for roasting, boiling, frying and mashing. heavy cropper and early bulking, resistant to drought and good resistance to potato virus Y and powdery-scab
Kerr's Pink – A very popular variety due to their dry and floury nature. Tubers are normally short and oval with slightly deep eyes. At their very best eaten when simply boiled in their beautiful, pink skins.
King Edward – Excellent cooking and taste qualities, once cooked, King Edward potatoes rarely discolour and offer a broad range of uses, boiling, baking, roasting, chips & mash
Maris Piper – A combination of excellent cooking and frying qualities make the Maris Piper the undisputed, number one spud of choice for almost all local chip shops oval shaped with white skins and cream coloured flesh.
Sarpo Mira - Sarpo Mira tubers have a dry, floury texture which are best suited to roasting and chipping, they also make a great baking potato. Famous as the most blight resistant potato variety available in the UK.