Popular, high yielding, all rounder.
Unwins Kerr’s Pink Seed Potatoes
- Suitable for boiling, mashing, baking, roasting and chipping
- Good blight resistance
- Good long term storage ability
- Order to collect in store or delivery available to most UK addresses
‘Chitting’ Seed Potatoes
(this is done to bring forward the harvest date if required but is not essential)
- Set out tubers on egg boxes or in wooden trays with the ‘eyes’ uppermost
- Keep in a light, frost-free room
- ‘Chits’ or ‘Shoots’ will begin to grow
- Chits or Shoots should be about ½-1 inches before planting
Planting Seed Potatoes
- Plant first early chitted tubers 12 inches apart in rows
- There should be approximately 24 inches between rows
- Cover seed potatoes with compost or soil
Crop Care
- When shoots emerge protect from frost by ‘earthing-up’
- Earthing up will also protect tubers from light which turns them green
- Water regularly with particular attention when tubers begin to form
- Harvest early potatoes when flowers are fully open