Seed Potato 'Desiree' - Grow Kit

Marshalls

£11.99

Catalogue Code: 10907114

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Grow your own delicious red skinned tubers regardless of the space you have available. Known to be a heavy cropper making them a customer favourite Desiree continues to be enjoyed on dinner plates year after year.

Key Features

Perfect for pots and containers
Disease resistant
Prefers full sun
Prefers part shade

Pack Contents: 1 x Grow Sack, 1kg of Tubers & 75g of Feed

Description

Grow tasty Desiree potatoes perfect for mashing
Comes with our Feefo 5* rated Gro-Sacks
Also includes out Feefo 5* rated potato fertiliser to get the best out of your tubers
Perfect if you don’t have the biggest space to grow with.

1kg of Desiree tubers

Potato Desiree our ultimate potato for creating your own wonderful fluffy mash potato. Desiree will provide you with a strong reliable cropper year after year. Its wonderful red flesh also makes it a great potato to boil and serve straight away. Probably why Desiree continues to be one of the UK’s favourite potatoes.

You can enhance the growth and success of your tubers by adding our specially formulated concentrated exclusive potato fertiliser. Rated as a FEEFO 5* a small sprinkle of our feed is known to increase yields, aid in strong leaf growth and help resist against blight and disease.

The kit contains:

1kg pack seed potatoes (approx. 12-15 tubers)
75g potato fertilizer
1 x Potato Grow Sac (50L)

How you will receive your plants:

Selected by our team of experts and sent from our nursery, you will receive seed potatoes in early January in a breathable net bag that can be recycled as for plastic bags. This keeps the potatoes together in a pack that is nice and airy – perfect to keep them healthy while in transit.

Can’t plant straight away?

Ideally, you should aim to start chitting your potatoes (see below) within a week of receiving them, but if this is not possible, store them in a cool, dark place until you are ready to use them.

Planting tips and hints:

Around 4-6 weeks before planting, it’s a good idea to ‘chit’ your seed potatoes, especially first and second early potatoes. To do this, place them in a cool, bright place with most of the ‘eyes’ pointing upwards to allow shoots to sprout. The shoots should be dark green or purple. If the shoots are white and spindly, move the potatoes to a cooler, brighter spot.

Once the shoots are around 2.5cm long, the potatoes are ready to plant. Remove all but the strongest two shoots from each potato.

Planting potatoes in growing bags:

Place the bags in a sunny, frost-free spot. Fill each bag with multipurpose compost up to about 2.5cm from the rim of the bag. Plant between 3-6 seed potatoes in the bag, putting in more seed potatoes per bag will produce smaller potatoes that can be harvested earlier. Planting less give larger potatoes which are harvested later. We have sent plenty of seed potatoes to choose from. You can plant the surplus in the garden and have 2 crops for the price of 1.

Water the bags regularly and feed fortnightly with potato fertilizer.

Harvest first early potatoes in June or July, second earlies in July-August and maincrop potatoes from late August-October once their leaves have yellowed.

Click here to view our full Potato Growing Guide.

Growing Calendar

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Delivery

We know how important your garden is to you. We've listened to our customers and introduced a new improved speedy delivery service, meaning Express delivery comes as standard

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: 1 - 2 bags £5.99 3 - 4 bags £11.98 5 - 6 bags £17.97 7 - 8 bags £23.96 9 - 10 bags £29.95 If you'd like more than 10 bags of compost please call our Customer Service team who can arrange for a bespoke competitive quote on 01480 774555 (standard network charges apply)

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Delivery to outside of Great Britain

We regret we are unable to deliver any products to non-mainland Great Britain delivery addresses. This includes Europe, Channel Islands, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, USA and Rest of World. We will update our website if this changes.

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