Veg A-Z

P : Potato

CHITTING

Chitting is simply a way of kick starting your potatoes.  Leaving them in a warm place with their eyes upwards and waiting for them to sprout their first shoots, then they are ready to plant out into your prepared plot.  Hoping to plant ours out in next couple of weeks during Easter break with everyone helping.  Going to make it a family day – picnic and everything.

Charlotte
Charlotte potatoes are classic salad potatoes and widely available across all major retailers. With a creamy skin and light yellow flesh, they are relatively small potatoes. Charlotte potatoes have a fresh flavoured which tastes great either hot or cold. 

Roosters Red Potatoes

Russet red skin with shallow eyes. They have fluffy yellow flesh and make brilliant roasties.  Can be used for jackets and chips too of course.

Red Duke of York

With red skin this potato is said to have floury flesh so will be nice and versatile - can be boiled, mashed, roasted, baked and chipped. A brilliant all rounder.  Hope we get a good crop as sounds like a winner.

Maris Piper

Golden skin, creamy flesh with fluffy texture.  Another good all rounder. Purple flowers and a main crop potato. Apparently they make the best roast potatoes.

Maris Peers

These small potatoes are ideal for boiling and steaming for use in salads, they can also be used as a roaster eaten hot or cold. Tasty small salad potatoes.

King Edwards

Creamy coloured skin with red blushes these light fluffy flesh made ideal baking/jacket potatoes and fab roasties.  Also ideal for chips too.

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S : Swiss Chard ~ Lucullus / Beta vulgaris cicla

Our first little plants are growing fast - never eaten this little plant before so looking forward to trying it. The added bonus with this lovely plant is you can harvest when young and mature and a long season - sowing from March to August.   

A fast growing abundant variety ~ The young leaves can be eaten like spinach and the stems can be used like asparagus. Needs a nutrient rich and moist soil. 

Height : 50cm (20") ~ Spread: 40cm (16")