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Sow Seed orders are usually despatched within 1-2 working days.
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Rocket Seed Potatoes (First Earlies) |
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Rocket seed potatoes when first released in 1987 were the quickest bulking of all early potatoes. Rockets ability to grow large crops of uniformed round tubers made it very popular.
This variety has a mild taste and tubers are white fleshed and skinned with shallow eyes. There is good resistance to blackleg, common scab, and spraing.
Lifting of Rocket before full maturity is recommended to avoid cracking of the tubers.
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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| Planting Information |
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Suitable for:
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Salad & Boiling
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PCN Resistant (Potato Cyst Nematodes) |
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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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View our useful sowing calendar |
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