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Charlotte Seed Potatoes (Second Earlies) |
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Charlotte is now the most popular salad potato in the UK. Tubers of Charlotte are long with a yellow skin and firm yellow waxy flesh that make it a superb salad potato.
Cooking qualities are excellent and the potatoes are full of flavour. Charlotte also has very good resistance to foliage and tuber blight.
Charlotte is a popular variety for planting in August and harvesting before Christmas.
'Second earlies' are generally eaten as soon as harvested - enjoyed as 'new potatoes'
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Weight
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500g
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1kg
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2kg
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Potatoes*
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5-6
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10-12
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20-24
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Our Seed Potatoes are sold by weight, quantities shown are aprox number of tubers graded at 35mm x 60mm. |
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Charlotte Seed Potatoes - Award of Garden Merit (AGM)
The Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (AGM) helps gardeners make informed choices about plants. This award indicates that the plant is recommended by the RHS.
Click here for more information.
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| Planting Information |
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Suitable for:
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Salad, Boiling & Mashing
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Plant:
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March - April or August for Christmas harvest
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Harvest:
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110-120 days (Planted mid to late April, they will be ready for harvesting from early to mid-August).
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To ensure a quicker large crop, chit your potatoes. Chitting is a process of encouraging the tuber to sprout by placing the tuber with most of it's eyes facing upwards in a tray (or egg box) located in a light, cool, frost free place before planting.
When ready to plant, dig a hole 15cm deep and plant tubers with eye end upwards 35cm apart in rows 70cm apart. Back fill until the hole is once again flat.
Once the potatoes start to grow through, you should then start to earth up. Earthing up is best done with a garden hoe. The aim is to form a peaked ridge with the loose soil at the edge of the trench to prevent your potatoes turning green which would make them inedible. This might be required 2/3 times a season.
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| Soil: |
Ideal soil conditions for growing potatoes are sandy loam soils which can be enriched with lots of organic matter to aid water retention and provide suitable feeding for you potatoes.
Heavy clay soils can be improved by adding sharp sand and lots of organic matter in the autumn so that the new soil mixture can be exposed to frost which will help break up the soil structure and make it easier to work with.
If you are unable to get organic matter you can add compost to the area you wish to plant your potatoes in.
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View our great value selection packs and seed gift boxes.
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View our useful sowing calendar |
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