'Kestrel' is a favourite second early variety. Extremely productive, with harvests of up to 35-40 or more tubers from each plant. They have good resistance to eelworm and slugs. These potatoes have a long oval shape with white skins and purple eyes and the tender white flesh tastes divine and perfect for roasting and chipping. Once the seed potatoes have produced shoots or chits, they will be ready to plant directly into a prepared bed or large bags or containers from mid-March, preferably after the frosts have gone. Young potatoes can be harvested from 13-17 weeks after planting. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready to prepare indoors for planting out in the spring.
This stunning new variety has only just been released more widely onto the market, following it's launch in supermarkets. It's appearance of red tubers, randomly blotched with cream, belies it's amazing soft, nutty almost sweet taste, from it's small, but high yielding tubers. Perfect baked whole to brighten all roasts, something really different.
You'll no doubt have seen the famously delicious Albert Bartlett Rooster potatoes on TV and in your local supermarket - and now you can grow your own! Rooster is an award-winning, super-tasty potato variety which is loved by everyone from professional chefs to mums with hungry kids - its excellent flavour and texture make it a great all-round potato for boiling, mashing, baking, roasting - and even chips. The large, oval shaped spuds have a distinctive red colour, so they'll even look great on your plate! Best of all, Rooster is incredibly easy to grow and perfect for allotment growing - or even for topping up our Potato Growing Kits. A unique, all-round winner!
Anya is a scrumptious salad potato from the Albert Bartlett range. Top-chefs love it for its simply wonderful flavour. It is perfect for salads on a warm summer's evening - simply boil your potatoes up and add a knob of butter and some freshly chopped chives - yummy! So good, it has won awards - Albert Bartlett Anya is very easy to grow and is loved by gardeners of all abilities. Now you can grow your own too - even in pots on your patio. You'll be picking the attractive long, pink potatoes around eight weeks after planting.
Add a real WOW factor to your cooking with Albert Bartlett Purple Majesty! This unique potato variety has a stunning deep-purple colour which is retained even when you cook it - imagine your kids' faces when you serve up purple mashed potatoes! Not only that, this extra-special variety is packed full of antioxidants - just like other superfoods like blueberries - so it is super-healthy too. Best of all and most importantly, Purple Majesty is absolutely delicious! This versatile spud is perfect for boiling, mashing, baking and roasting - and what's more it is surprisingly easy to grow, even if you don't have a garden.
Sweet Potatoes are increasingly popular as an alternative to traditional potatoes, and surprisingly easy to grow. Sweet Potato 'Makatea' comes from the innovative Treasure Island Series, bred for both flavoursome crops and ornamental qualities.
Sweet Potato ?Murasaki? bears reddish-purple skin but unlike the typical orange sweet potatoes it has white flesh.
A real advancement in the concept of ornamental edibles! This attractive Sweet Potato comes from the innovative Treasure Island Series, bred for both flavoursome crops and ornamental qualities.
For an convenient and easy way to grow potatoes on your patio look no further than our Potato Growing Bags. These durable black/grey bags hold 8 litres of compost and the black and grey colouring prevents light reaching the developing potato tubers for healthy and delicious crops; and absorbs heat for a quick start in the spring.
Reliable and vigorous cropping varieties packed full of superb flavour. The perfect addition to your veg plot or containers and sold as plants not tubers making them easier to grow. Both the leaves and tubers produced are edble giving double the nutritious bebenfit!#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B21443AB"]{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="60599B21443BC"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
One of the most versatile vegetables, sweet potatoes have become exceedingly popular over the last decde thanks to their delicious flavour, ease of cooking and all the new and unique ways to create a storm in the kitchen - with a healthier twist on a normal white potato! With extra dietry fiber in a sweet potato compared to a normal potato, many of us are adding more and more sweet potato into our diets, and it's so easy to do. From typical mashing, boiling or baking, to chips, soups, curries and stews, there are so many wonderful dishes that are so easy to make - so why not grow your own supply and save yourself some pennies on expensive supermarket prices? This collection includes two vitamin-rich varieties, a purple and a red skin, that when grown by your own fair hands will add something a little special to your dishes. Included in this collection; Erato Orange - a typical orange-fleshed, red-skinned potatoErato White - a slighly more unusual looking white fleshed, purple skinned sweet potato Grow in hot conditions, preferably in a greenhouse or conservatory. Perfect for growing in pots, they'll grow to a maximum of approx. 30cm tall and with regular watering, the vigorous plants will develop large tubers in the summer and will be ready for harvest from September through to October. The tubers can even be harvested in the autumn and stored until you want to use them.