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Red Duke of York Seed Potatoes (First Earlies) |
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Red Duke of York are a heritage variety from 1942. The first Red Duke was said to be found in a crop of white dukes in Holland.
Red skinned tubers with shallow eyes and yellow flesh. Red Dukes are a dry mealy potato packed with flavour and do not disintegrate on boiling.
This potato is quickly gaining a reputation as the 'best of the best' in the potato world.
Compared to maincrop potatoes, first earlies are lower yielding, usually have smaller tubers, need less space and escape some of the diseases, such as blight.
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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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Red Duke of York 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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Boiling, Baking, Mashing, Roasting & Chipping.
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Plant:
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Harvest:
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60-110 days (Late June / Early July for March plantings). Start lifting your early potatoes when they begin to flower.
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| How to plant: |
When ready to plant, dig a hole 15cm deep and plant tubers with eye end upwards 30cm apart in rows 60cm apart. Back fill until the hole is once again flat.
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.
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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| A great selection of seeds suitable for Autumn and Winter sowings. |
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View our useful sowing calendar |
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