Arran Pilot is one of the most popular first early potato varieties available amongst amateur gardeners. It will produce an abundance of white fleshed, waxy tubers with a superb flavour which tastes best when harvested and served immediately. It's an ideal choice for eating straight out of the ground in your salads, as boiled new potatoes or even chipping. This variety offers a good resistance to all forms of scab and spraing. #html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FE46"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FE57"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
Arran Pilot is one of the most popular first early potato varieties available amongst amateur gardeners. It will produce an abundance of white fleshed, waxy tubers with a superb flavour which tastes best when harvested and served immediately. It's an ideal choice for eating straight out of the ground in your salads, as boiled new potatoes or even chipping. This variety offers a good resistance to all forms of scab and spraing. #html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FE46"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B213FE57"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
'Arran Pilot' is a favourite traditional salad variety with an excellent flavour and texture. It can be planted from March to May and will be ready to harvest as 'new' potatoes from about 13 weeks after planting. Easy to grow, it is a reliable early cropper with good resistance to pests and diseases. Fast growing, 'Arran Pilot' will produce bountiful crops of waxy tubers of consistent size and quality, blemish-free, smooth, creamy skin and white flesh that remains firm during cooking. They can be eaten straight out of the ground, or added to the pot for delicious new potatoes and potato salads. Plant in fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny, sheltered position, or in large containers or growbags. Water well in dry conditions for optimum cropping. These potatoes are best used fresh from the garden but will keep well for up to 5 days in a cool, dark and dry place. Supplied as a 2.5kg pack of seed potatoes ready to prepare indoors for planting out from March to May. Early plantings will benefit from frost protection.