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Seed Potatoes (Empress) - Description
- HAVE STARTED TO SPROUT - Will Grow 50% off
- Leave Chits on when planting - they will come up quickly (Head start)Pack of Seed Potatoes
- Variety: Empress
- Ideal for Salads
- Season: Main Crop
- Quantity: 2Kg
- Approx. 25 - 30 Tubers
- Skin: Good Skin Finish
- Colour: Golden
- Eyes & Indents on Potato
- Good Disease Resistance
- Dry Potato But Floury Flavour
Seed Potatoes (Empress) - How to Grow
- Roosters are a main crop potato meaning
- They give good yields
- They require more space to grow
- Sow from mid April onwards
- Harvest from late Autumn & over the Winter
- See our how to grow tab for full sowing instructions
Seed Potatoes (Empress) - Uses
- Salad, mash, baked
- Empress potatoes are rich, buttery mashed potatoes piped into elegant swirls and baked until golden and crisp on the outside. Ideal in salads
Seed Potatoes (Empress) - Pests & Disease
- Some resistance to common scab, powdery scab, tuber blight
- Susceptible to foliage blight
- Good resistant to blackleg
Seed Potatoes - Yields at Harvest
- Yields from these will depend on your soil & conditions this Summer
- A very good yield would be a 15:1 ratio
- if you plant 1Kg of seed potatoes you would get about 15Kg of potatoes at harvest
- But you can expect a yield of around 10Kg to every 1Kg planted on average
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