Potato 'Charlotte' Suttons Growing Kit

This Potato Growing Kit is great for first time growers looking to start home growing without taking up too much space, and also perfect for the established grower plugging holes in their growing season and topping up their stores.

This kit contains Tubers, 45 Litre Potato Growing Bags perfect for the patio, and also the option of including 5 packets of lucky dip vegetable seeds, giving home growers a chance to try something new or unusual this year!

Potato ‘Charlotte’ is absolutely one of the most popular UK potato varieties for gardeners, due to its yellow skin and creamy, velvety yellow flesh, which holds one of the best flavours of any potato you can grow. Frequently found in supermarkets, why not skip the hassle and expense and grown your very own, not only is it cheaper but it tastes better too! Second early salad variety. Height and spread: 60cm (24").

Experience the joy of cultivating your own potatoes effortlessly with our Potato Grow Sacks, designed specifically for limited spaces and patio gardens. These sturdy sacks offer sufficient room for your potatoes to flourish, enhancing your gardening journey and allowing you to savor the taste of freshly harvested, homegrown potatoes. For optimal results in our 45-litre container, plant three seed potatoes at equal intervals and fill the container with compost until it reaches two-thirds full. As the plants grow, continue to add compost until the container is within 2.5 cm of the top, ensuring regular watering and the application of potato fertilizer. Early and second early potatoes can be harvested once the plants have finished flowering, while maincrop potatoes are ready when the foliage has completely died back. Simply tip the container over to collect your new tubers.

Plus, there's nothing more satisfying that a plate full of your own 'home grown' veggies! Our great value lucky dip collection offers a selection of customer favourites, selected from our wide range of vegetable seed. We will send you a variety of 'easy to grow seed' to produce a full range of crops that you can plant in your garden or on the allotment. Whether you are a beginner gardener, or a green-fingered grower, this lucky dip provides the perfect opportunity to try something new!

Images are for illustration purposes only. The seed varieties you will receive may differ from those illustrated and may include herb seed packets. To allow us to offer you such a good price, we can't take orders for specific varieties, but whatever we decide to send, you won't be disappointed. Please note potato bag design may vary.

Growing Information

Planting Potatoes are easy! They will yield a worthwhile crop under a wide range of conditions. Traditional winter digging incorporating well-rotted farmyard manure and trenching in more manure or fertiliser in spring undoubtedly produces the best crop but is very hard work! Why not try for reasonable yields with less effort? Loams and light soils don’t need digging. Natural organic manures or composts can be placed in contact with the seed potatoes in a shallow trench. High potash chemical fertiliser can be placed on the surface after the tubers have been buried using a trowel or a bulb planter. A potato fertiliser can be raked into the soil during seed bed preparations. Plant early varieties 7–10cm (3–4") deep, 30cm (12") apart, and about 45cm (18") between rows. Second earlies generally need a little more space while main crop varieties are traditionally planted 37cm (15") apart with 67cm (27") between rows. Large varieties like King Edward benefit from even more room, up to 45cm (18") apart. Lightly fork between the rows to loosen the soil. If planting salads and you like a lot of smaller potatoes then plant closer together, only 25cm (10") apart. For high yielding maincrop potatoes a wider drill of approximately 75cm (30") will ensure minimal exposure to light and consequential greening.

Growing - Earth up the rows 2 or 3 times using a rake or draw hoe before the foliage gets too extensive. This provides enough soil cover to prevent tuber greening and is very effective in controlling weeds. Water well in long dry spells this is especially important when the tubers are swelling. If you water 10 days after emergence when the tubers are forming you minimise the risk of blight. It is important not to over water.

Harvesting - Earlies are ready 9–12 weeks from planting. Open flowers, if present, indicate that the first tubers are present underneath. Main crops take 14 weeks or more to mature. After natural die-back (or the removal of the foliage if blight has taken hold) leave the potatoes for 2–3 weeks in the ground to set firm skin ready for storage. As soon as skin is set lift the crop because the underground slugs are usually at their most active at the end of the season. The best test for size is to scrape away some soil. Start using when small for the delicious early potato flavour. Kids love small potatoes!