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Description
- The perfect amount for refilling your potato planter
- Autumn-cropping
- Salad-type variety
- Arrive ready to plant out
This all in one gro-kit contains 'Charlotte' seed potatoes and a potato planter; making it easy to grow your own.
'Charlotte' is a firm, creamy-yellow variety with a mouth-watering flavour, and is perfect hot or in salads! Plant in July, and the excellent shallow-eyed, long-oval tubers (which are 50% bigger than other salad varieties) will be ready to harvest between November and December, just in time for Christmas.
Planting seed potatoes into this well-sized potato planter is easy. Plus, it enables you to easily locate it either on the side of your allotment, patio, backyard or even on the balcony; wherever is most convenient to you.
To use, simply half-fill the potato planter with compost and fertiliser, and plant in the seed potatoes from July. As the plants grow, add more compost and fertiliser to fill the potato planter, water regularly and harvest late autumn to early winter.
To protect your potatoes from frost damage, cover them with a horticultural fleece when temperatures start to plummet at night. If your potato planters aren't too heavy, bring them indoors on cold nights and return them outdoors during the day.
As the stems of the potato plants start to develop, earth up the soil around the base every few days or so. This will discourage the edible tubers from greening-up and will prevent them from becoming poisonous.
These potatoes are happiest when planted in full sun.
Summer Planting Potaotes (Also known as Second Cropping or "Christmas")
These potatoes are specially treated through cold storage from December through to June/July without the use of any chemicals, this cold storages makes them desperate to grow in the warm summer temperatures. It's important to plant these potatoes at the optimum time whilst the days are still long to ensure they grow to their full potential. These specially treated potatoes are often referred to as "Christmas Potatoes" which is slightly misleading as they will in fact be ready to harvest in October and will not grow any larger after then. If left in the ground or containers and provided they are protected from harsh frosts they will happily keep until Christmas providing you with delicious homegrown potatoes for your Christmas dinner.
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| Order Type | Delivery Charge | Delivery Charge |
| Seed only order | £2.49 | If you purchase any other items you'll be charged the standard delivery rate of £5.99 |
| Plants, bulbs & gardening accessories | £5.99 | If we need to split your order into separate deliveries we'll only charge one delivery fee |
| Extra large or long plants & heavy items | £9.99 | These are clearly displayed at check-out |
| Compost (and any other large or heavy items) | £5.99 | These items are subject to a delivery multiplier where orders containing 3 or 4 items will be subject to an additional £5.99 for every further 2 items added. This is automatically applied at check-out:
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