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Seed Potatoes - Grow Your Own Sunday Roasts Ever thought of growing your own seed potatoes in your garden? By choosing your favourite varieties and following a few simple instructions, you can. Seed Potatoes are grouped according to the season of harvest: earlies, second earlies and main crop. How do I do it? Start into early growth indoors by leaving the tubers in a light, airy place. Plant out with care when danger of frost has passed into well-cultivated soil. Which tubers do I use? Look at the information on the packet, or see our chart below, and choose the varieties that meet your needs i.e. baking, chipping, roasting. Expert’s Tip “Earth up” into a ridge as they grow bringing soil up around the first stems. This helps control weeds and prevents sunlight turning the top potatoes green, which makes them inedible. Harvesting. Harvest your First Earlies from June-July, Second Earlies from July-Sept and your Maincrop Sept-Oct.
			Seed Potatoes available from the first week in January.

First Earlies	Salad	Boil	Bake	Roast	Chip	Mash
Arran Pilot - An old favourite, good for boiling.	•	•		•		•
Duke of York - Tasty old fashioned favourite.		•		•		•
Foremost - Tasty flavoured early variety.	•	•		•		•
Home Guard - Good flavour, floury texture.		•		•		•
Maris Bard - Produces a high yield, drought resistant.	•	•	•	•	•	•
Pentland Javelin - Suitable for all soils.	•	•		•		•
Red Duke of York - Tasty old fashioned favourite.		•		•		•
Rocket - A high yield with good flavour. Fast growing.	•	•		•	•	•
Sharpes Express - An all rounder, distinctive flavour.	•	•	•	•	•	•

Second Earlies	Salad	Boil	Bake	Roast	Chip	Mash
Charlotte - Firm texture, excellent in salads.	•	•		•
Kestrel - High yield, slug resistant.	•	•	•	•	•	•
Maris Peer - Firm texture, good for boiling.	•	•		•	•
Nicola - A buttery flavour, good for salads.	•	•		•	•	•

Main Crop	Salad	Boil	Bake	Roast	Chip	Mash
Cara - High quality, good for wedges.			•	•	•	•
Desiree - The most popular red variety.		•	•	•	•	•
King Edward - Most popular variety, good flavour.			•	•	•	•
Majestic - Old Lincolnshire favourite.		•	•		•
Maris Peer - Firm texture, good for boiling	•	•		•	•
Pentland Crown - High yield, good early main crop.			•	•		•