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Seed Potato Casablanca (First Early) Patio Pack of 8
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Growing your own potatoes is incredibly satisfying (you can eat the rewards!) and much easier than you think. The Seed Potato Casablanca is a First Early variety, producing a good crop of large, white tubers with smooth skins and a good level of resistance to blight and scab.
This pale-fleshed variety is especially delicious, and makes excellent chips. Casablanca is set to become a firm favourite on the show bench and in the kitchen Does anything compare to pulling fresh potatoes out of your very own soil - be it a patch of your garden or a potato bag?
- - First early seed potato
- Soil Type: Loam
- Soil Drainage: Keep moist but well drained
- Light Exposure: Full sun
- Planting Style: Beds, borders and containers
- Sowing / Planting: Mid-march to mid-april
- Harvesting period: June and July
- Good all-round resistance to disease - Composition10PK Casablanca (First Early)
- DimensionsPotatoes Per Pack: 8
- Preparation & Usage
Plant first early potato crops from the end of February. Prior to planting, 'chit' the seed potatoes by setting them out in a cool, bright position (10C) to allow them to sprout.
When growing first early potatoes in the ground, avoid planting in soil where potatoes have grown for two years in succession to reduce the risk of disease. Prepare the planting area in a sheltered position in full sun on moist, well-drained soil. Dig in plenty of well-rotted manure. Plant potatoes in rows at a spacing of 30cm. Rows should be set out 60cm apart. Place the seed potatoes into 10cm deep trenches and backfill the soil to refill the trenches. When shoots reach 20cm, mound up soil around the shoots leaving just a few centimetres showing. Repeat this process after a further 3 weeks.
Where space is limited, you can grow potatoes in potato bags on the patio. Fill an 8 litre potato bag to just below the top of the bag with good quality compost mixed with some well-rotted manure. Carefully plunge a single chitted potato tuber into the compost with the shoots pointing upwards at a depth of 12cm from the soil surface. Place the bags in a sunny position and water regularly to keep the compost moist.
- SafetyAvoid eating green potatoes or any green part of the plant
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