• The perfect amount for refilling your potato planter
• Autumn-cropping
• Salad-type variety
• Arrive ready to plant out

This Christmas harvest collection contains 9 Woven gro sacks, fertilizer and 3 1kg bags of the below varieties;

• Charlotte - 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.
• Maris Peer - A tasty, salad-type variety that can be used in hearty meals or as healthy sides.
• Nicola - Produces excellent waxy, oval-shaped tubers. This great roast potato variety has a mouth-watering flavour, and is perfect hot or in salads!

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 grow sack with compost and scatter fertilser over the compost surface, plant 3-5 tubers and cover to a depth of approx 3cm or push in the seed potatoes so there is at least 3cm of compost over the top of them. If you have chitted the potatoes then place them with the most 'eyes' facing up, if not look for the pointed end with the most indents and face this upwards. Mostly the less tubers planted the larger the potaoes but there are less of them; the more tubers planted, they are smaller but more of them. Water in well and keep watering regularly as pototoes are thirsty plants

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 Potatoes (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.

All our seed potatoes are graded to a size 35mm x 35mm to 55mm x 55mm. This means that the smallest seed potatoes in the sample will not fall through an 35mm square. This does mean there will be various sizes within the pack. More modern varieties are more equal in size but as we want to offer the more unusual and Heritage varieties, these are more variable but we will always supply the weight stated. Any harvest will depend on individual growing conditions but generally smaller potatoes will produce smaller crops and larger potatoes will produce larger crops. But for example 1kg of seed potatoes will produce the same overall harvest whether the seed potatoes are small or large.