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# Growing/ planting potatoes
# Potato recipes
The humble potato (or potatoe) was introduced to Europe in 1492 and has since found its place firmly on the dinner table. After centuries of cultivating there are now over one hundred different types of potatoes found around the world.
Some of the more common seed potatoes include:
Annabelle potato seeds - Early maturing salad variety.
Arran Pilot potato seeds – White skinned with a waxy texture.
Cara potato seeds - Pink and white tubers with great white flesh.
Charlotte potato seeds – Produce, uniform oval potatoes. Great for salads.
Juliette potato seeds – High yields with good blight/eelworm resistance.
Kestrel potato seeds - Smooth skin with purple eyes.
King Edward potato seeds –Traditional potato ideal for baking and roasting.
Lady Balfour potatoe seeds - Excellent resistant to major diseases. Great flavour.
Maris Peer potato seeds – Heavy yield with a firm white flesh.
Maris Piper potato seeds – Good yielder with a great taste, perfect for chips.
Maxine potato seeds – Round tubers with smooth, bright red skin.
Pentland Javelin potato seeds - Ideal for boiling or in salads with good disease resistance.
Pink Fir Apple potato seeds – knobbly potato with great new potato flavour.
Rocket seed potato seeds – Easy to cultivate with good uniform shape
Swift potato seeds – Can produce a good crop in as little as 7 weeks from planting.
Vegetable-seeds have found the following seed vendors who sell seed potatoes. A typical 3kg bag can produce 30 potato tubers:
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Potato grow sacks
Potato fertiliser
Growing potatoes
1/ Start encouraging seed potatoes to sprout from late-January.
2/ Potatoe seeds are ready for planting out when the shoots are between 1.5 to 2.5 cm’s long.
3/ Around mid-March - April, dig a trench approx 7.5 to 13 cm’s deep. Add fertiliser and water.
4/ Plant potatoes around 30cm’s apart. Potatoes tubers are delicate so handle with care. Shoots should be pointing upwards!
5/ As soon as the shoots appear, earth up each row so that the potatoe shoots are just buried.
6/ The potatoes should be ready for harvest by June – September depending on the variety.
When planting potatoes always remember to refer to the instructions on the seed packets!
A video tutorial on planting potato tubers.
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Potato recipes
The following websites have great tips and advice on cooking with potatoes.
Let us know if you would like us to add your potatoe recipe to the list below.
Some of our favourite potatoe recipes include parmesan roasted potatoes, lamb steak with rosemary potatoes and caramalized potatoes.
BBC - Good food
Cookitsimply
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