Which potato should i grow

Now if I can just remember to cover my newly planted potatoes so that the crows don't dig them up, I'll be happy. Judi R. February 24 at am. Thank you for this article. I see where my past mistakes have been and look forward to this new crop. Do you cut up your seed potatoes before you plant them? We have always done this but it looks like in the pictures the potatoes are whole. Thank you! Hi Judi, Great question! That depends on how many "eyes" each seed potato has.

If a seed potato has 5 eyes, for example, you can cut it in two pieces so that each piece has eyes. You can cut them up the night before planting and let the cut edges dry overnight to prevent rotting. February 22 at am. Sabra Lee. February 19 at pm.

I'd like a recommendation for good potato varieties for the Berkshires. We are on a hill in the country, nights tend to be cool and days can be quite hot at times.

I've never grown potatoes before. Thanks so much - sabra. Leave a comment. Recent Posts. Recent Comments. Compare Products. Remove This Item Compare.

My Wish Lists. Last Added Items. Add to Cart Add to Cart. Remove This Item. Go to Wish List. All Rights Reserved. Recommend these. Can you tell me how long it takes to grow Summer Beauty seed potatoes? Hi Carol, Summer Beauty are a main crop seed potato and take approximately days from planting to harvest. Once the foliage dies down, they will be ready.

The wait is worthwhile, you won't be disappointed. Are any varieties resistant to psyllid? I used to grow lovely spuds but these days only get marbles, thanks to those little beasties. Can't grow tomatoes either :. Hi Ann, no, unfortunately there are no potato varieties resistant to psyllid. Protect plants from frost, place a fine mesh over the potatoes such as fly screen mesh or net curtain mesh so that light can still get in.

Hopefully you will get a crop before the psyllid becomes a problem later in the season. Make use any infected plant material is not composted, but disposed of in the rubbish so that the psyllid cannot overwinter.

I would love to have a go at growing potatoes in a container. Thanks for your information on growing potatoes. These crops are all main crop varieties, they flower and then die down naturally, then they are ready to harvest.

Picking your potato variety Like. You can't beat new potatoes freshly dug out of your own garden! Choose your perfect potato variety based on your harvesting and cooking preferences. Potato Growing Guide. Rocket is the fastest producing of early varieties and provides a good yield. Great for growing in containers. Rocket is a good boiling potato with waxy texture.

Swift is fast growing with exceptional taste, great for growing in containers. Swift potatoes will not discolour or disintegrate on steaming. Cliff Kidney performs best in soils that contain peat.

An excellent, firm potato for early cropping. Great for growing in containers and best for boiling. Main crop varieties Main crop varieties are ready to harvest within days. Heather is a reliable and steady cropper. With long oval tubers and white flesh, it has excellent cooking qualities - in particular boiling, mashing and roasting and is ready in approximately days. Nadine requires adequate soil moisture at all times. It is a lovely round, white waxy potato particularly good for boiling and is ready to harvest in approximately days.

Rua is a good producer that will adapt and produce heavily in most soil types. With a white tuber and white flesh, Rua has excellent cooking qualities - in particular roasting and boiling and keeps well. It is ready to harvest in approximately days. For a bumper crop - high yielders Ensure a continued supply throughout the season with these varieties. Grow plenty for the whole family with the below varieties: Ilam Hardy is very adaptable and will give a good yield over a wide variety of conditions.

It has light blight resistance and is a great variety for growing in containers. Ilam Hardy has excellent cooking qualities, in particular boiling and frying.

Early, or new potatoes are fast and easy to grow. They also require much less space to grow than later varieties, so are ideal for small gardens. Try growing in the ground, in large containers or potato growing bags. To help you decide, we grew and taste-tested 12 varieties. We chose mix of old and new varieties that are readily available and have reasonable pest and disease resistance.

We planted five tubers of each variety. The tubers were planted in the ground in late March. Harvesting was done on on the first of July. Our tips for growing great new potatoes are shown at the bottom of the page. High yield of good-sized evenly shaped tubers and the favourite with our tasters, who loved the texture and flavour.

Also the winner of our jacket potato trial in , so a great all-rounder. Second for taste and the waxiest with nice texture and good flavour. A heavy yield of attractive pale yellow tubers that included some very large potatoes. A high yield of potatoes with long, smooth tubers and yellow skin.

A new variety, this produced a middling yield by weight, with a large quantity of small tubers. Came third for taste with a good flavour, nice waxy texture and very well-flavoured skin.