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‘Picasso’ Main Crop Seed Potatoes are an award-winning allotment favourite, producing white-skinned potatoes that are blight and drought resistant.
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Picasso Main Crop Seed Potatoes produce a magnificent, allotment favourite, garden potato. It is blight and drought resistant, high yielding and is the perfect choice for beginner gardeners to grow. For added peace of mind, these potatoes have received the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit for their reliable and consistent growth.
With its pink-eyed, oval, white skinned tubers and creamy, waxy but floury flesh, it is full of flavour and delicious for enjoying in a range of culinary dishes. These potatoes are great for cooking a range of dishes and are ideal for mashing, boiling and baking. If you can’t eat your crop of potatoes all at once, then these potatoes will also keep well in storage.
Plant Main Crop potato tubers outside between March and April, 10cm deep and 20cm apart in a line, making sure to leave at least 30cm between lines to allow space to grow.
Prior to planting, Seed Potatoes should go through the process of ‘chitting’. This process involves leaving the potatoes on a cool, bright windowsill for 4-6 weeks in order to encourage sprouts and prepare the tubers for going into the ground.
After planting, draw up soil around the new shoots to protect them from frost damage and prolong the growing time. ‘Earthing up’ in this way also protects developing potatoes from sunlight which can cause them to turn green and poisonous. Keep potatoes well watered during warm weather.
Main Crop Seed Potatoes require a much longer growing time in the ground and would benefit from an added fertiliser during the Summer months.
When ready to harvest, approximately 16-22 weeks after planting, cut back plant stalks to ground level before gently lifting the plant up with a garden fork.
Carefully remove the potatoes from the plant and wash well before using in the kitchen.
