King Edward is THE traditional favourite potato - perfect for your Christmas roast potatoes and a great all-rounder too. Mash it, bake it, chip it, roast it or boil it - serve Kind Edward any way you like and you'll simply love its delicious flavour. What's more, it is a consistent heavy cropper - you can grow your own potatoes and expect to get sackfuls from these robust, reliable seed potatoes. Eat them freshly harvested in September and October, or keep them in our specially designed Hessian Sacks - they'll keep throughout winter!
Probably the best-known variety, 'Maris Piper' is the potato most frequently used in pubs and chips shops throughout the UK - and for good reason! This versatile, all-rounder makes the most delicious crisp and fluffy chips, and its floury texture also means it is a top choice for baking, roasting, mashing and boiling. A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, this fast-growing maincrop potato is easy to plant and maintain, with good resistance to eelworm. 'Maris Piper' is a tried-and-trusted, dependable variety that will reward with masses of consistently sized, oval tubers that have lovely clean, white skins and delicious creamy-white flesh. Unless you want an early crop, there is no need to chit this maincrop seed potato before planting; just store them in a cool but frost-free, well-ventilated place before planting out in the spring. Plant from March to May into fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny position, or into large containers or grow bags. Your potatoes will be ready to harvest from August to November, generally 17-20 weeks after planting. Once lifted, they will store well through winter in a dark and dry place, preferably in an open tray or crate. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready for chitting or for storing until planting out in the spring.
You can still enjoy freshly picked leaves for salad and stir fries well into late autumn. If you have a greenhouse you can grow our winter cropping mix under cover for even later harvests!