6 x Seed Potatoes Charlotte White - Great for Salads Baking Boiling - RHS Award Winner of Garden Merit - Great Taste Grown in Your Garden

Description

Full of flavour whether you eat it hot or cold. Charlotte tubers have creamy yellow flesh, firm and waxy, with yellow skin – perfect for salads and boiling. Very good levels of foliage and tuber blight resistance. Charlotte is also a great beginner variety. Winner of the RHS award of garden merit. Charlotte works well as a “Christmas Cropper”. Plant them straight away and they will grow away rapidly in the warm summer soil. Your first potatoes can be dug from late October, but remember to leave some in the ground undisturbed, so you can enjoy that mouth-watering, just harvested, ‘new potato’ taste on Christmas Day! How to Grow: As you receive your seed potatoes you should begin the process of ‘chitting’. This just means encouraging the potato grow a sprout. This is best done in a frost-free sunny area. An easy method is to leave your potatoes in an egg carton, with the blunt end with most eyes facing upwards. The short shoots that appear will help get the potatoes off to a good start when planted. With the use of a garden fork simply turn the soil over and work in some well rotted manure to provide essential nutrients for your potatoes. If you are unable to use manure then specialized potato fertilizer can be used but the fertilizer should be placed below the potato and a layer of soil or compost put in between so that the potato roots grow down into the soil to establish properly. When planting keep 45cm distance between the rows. After planting out along the drills, carefully cover each potato with a handful of peat or fine soil. Make sure not to snap off the sprouts, they are fragile! The potatoes should have a covering of approx 3” of soil. Potatoes love moisture, particularly when the tubers begin to form around flowering time. Giving the crop a heavy soaking less often is preferable as this gets down deep through the roots. SALAD, STEAMING, BOILING- A LOVELY CLASSIC POTATO