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Seed Potatoes - Description
- Pack of Seed Potatoes
- Variety: Maris Peer
- Season: Second Earlies (Suitable For Winter Harvesting)
- Popular Potatoes for a Winter / Christmas Harvest
- Quantity: (2Kg)
- Approx 25 Tubers
- Size: 35 - 55mm
- Skin Colour: Yellow Skinned
- White Flesh
- Excellent Flavour, Small, Oval Tubers
Seed Potatoes - How to Grow
- Maris Peer is a second early potato
- They give good yields
- They require more space to grow
- It is ideally sown from mid Summer into Autumn
- Harvest over Winter
- See our how to grow tab for full sowing instructions
Seed Potatoes - Uses
- Ideal for boiling, roasting & steaming
Seed Potatoes - Pests & Disease
- Very low resistance to eelworm / potato cyst nematode
- These can be stored for only for a week or two
- Susceptible to late blight on tubers
- Stay tuned to weather alerts such as Met Eireann
- How to spot blight
- Brown spots on leaves leading to foliage rot
- Foliage turns black
- Next the tubers begin to rot
- How to control blight
- Choose disease resistant seed potatoes
- Spray crops prior to infection with blight control products
- A common spray available on the market is the bordeaux mixture
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
