Quantity	Discount	Discounted price
2 +	£1.50	£12.20

Delivery Information

Free UK delivery - with very few exceptions

We will dispatch all items at around the same time as the GYOP kits

Items ordered from here will arrive in one delivery, but will be separate from the GYOP kits

All orders will be dispatched in February and you will get a email when this happens. It will then will take 4-5 days to get to you. This can be longer especially if we have any industrial action or frost.

Any orders placed after the main dispatch date will be processed within 3 days.

If you would prefer that your items arrive at a different time (dispatch on the week that you would like), or would like more choice, please order from Potato House directly (external link).

After delivery it is YOUR responsibility to store the seed potatoes in the correct manner. Seed Potatoes are a natural product and will deteriorate if not stored correctly. There is information on the GYOP site on how to Grow Your Own Potatoes. Please note that some of the varieties in different patio packs may require longer to mature.

For the vast majority of orders, we do not charge a surcharge for Scottish Highlands and Islands and other remote areas. However, we reserve the right to contact you if we can't get a viable rate. Unfortunately, for large or extremely remote orders, it is likely that we will need to pass on some haulage charge.

Unfortunately due to Brexit we are prohibited to send seed potatoes to Northern Ireland.

For Isle of Man dlievery is free up to 5kg.
For the Channel Islands we have a surcharge for delivery.

If you wish to pick up we offer a 15% discount. By default, this option will only appear for local postcodes. If yours doesn’t appear, use our postcode DD3 0QN in the “Deliver to Address”. You need to select local pick up and also put code Pickup in the coupon box. Also to help us, put “pick up” in the “deliver to address”. Note that your order will still be prepared for February. We will contact you when your order is ready. We operate on a working farm with machinery, vehicles and livestock and so please keep children and pets inside your car when picking up. This is only available for orders up to £50 – if you wish to pick up a larger order, please contact us prior to ordering.

If we get a parcel returned to us due to wrong details we will charge you postage to re-send. Please check the details on your confirmation note and inform us immediately of any mistakes. Small typos are easy to do!

All products ordered will be sent together in the same delivery. Bulk discounts are only available for the same order.

During times of frost or low temperatures deliveries will be held back until more favourable conditions prevail and we will inform customers of any delays over social media and on our website. Some deliveries may be delayed if we have to re- stock our nets.

See our Terms and Conditions for more details.

Growing Earlies

Potato House first Early Seed potatoes Potato House second early seed potatoes

The Term “Early or “Second Early” refers to the length of time the tubers will need to reach maturity.
Chitting is simply waking the seed potato up after its winter dormancy ready to grow.
It is definitely a good idea to chit, but to do this you need to get your seed nice and early – the aim is to have your potatoes come through the ground after the last frost in your area as the new plant is susceptible to frost.
Chitted seed will be ready to grow much quicker once Spring arrives and the soil warms up. Chitted seed should come through the ground in about 2 weeks.
Remove the seed potatoes from the net as soon as you receive them (as the shoots will grow through the nets and can break if you try to remove them) and put them in an egg carton in a sunny window sill. The shoots will start to sprout and when they are around an inch long they will be ready to plant.
Early crops can be planted till the end of June depending on where you are in the UK. Earlies take 10-12 weeks to mature Second Earlies take slightly longer at around 14-16 weeks to mature.
There is a common myth that you can cut the tuber up to give a better yield. We do not advise this. Tubers have enough stored energy to get to the surface and produce a healthy crop. By cutting they you are risking the tuber going mouldy as it has no skin to protect it and lower yields.
Potatoes like to be watered but not water-logged and so ensure your pot or area has good drainage.
Potatoes need a sunny site away from frost pockets – the newly emerging foliage is susceptible to frost damage in April and May.
The traditional planting method is to dig a narrow trench 12cm (5in) deep. The seed tubers are spaced 30cm (12in) apart for earlies in rows 24in (60cm) apart. Apply a general purpose fertiliser at this stage. When the emerging shoots come through, you need to “earth” or “mound” them up – this is counter intuitive. Do this several times. This encourages downward growth – the new tubers will jostle for space and any growing near the surface will turn green.
Small crops of potatoes can also be grown in large, deep containers, and this is a good way of getting an early batch of new potatoes. Fill the bottom 15cm (6in) of the container with potting compost and plant the seed potato just below this. As the new stems start growing, keep adding compost until the container is full.
With earlies, wait until the flowers open or the buds drop; the tubers are ready to harvest when they are the size of hens’ eggs. These do not store well and should be eaten quickly after harvest.

See FAQ on Potato House page for more information on the differences in crop varieties and common problems (external link)

RHS Award of Garden Merit

RHS Seed potatoes

RHS Award of Garden Merit.

This potato variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) because it has proved to be reliable in appropriate conditions and a good performing plant. For more information on RHS Award of Garden Merit plants visit .rhs.org.uk/plants. To see the potatoes in the list, click on LISTS half way down this page, then scroll to potatoes

What is the AGM?

With more than 75,000 plants available in RHS Plant Finder alone, how can you tell which plants are best for all-round garden value? The AGM is intended to help gardeners make that choice, and is only awarded to plants that are:

excellent for ordinary use in appropriate conditions*
available
of good constitution
essentially stable in form and colour
reasonably resistant to pests and diseases

We are delighted that so many of the varieties that we grow and supply have gained this prestigious award. If you think other varieties should have this award, or have any comments please contact them directly.

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Grow Bag and Patio Pack Details

Patio Pack Contains

3 x nets of 3 tubers of different varieties

Then you can decide whether you would like some grow bags or not. Each 3 tuber net requires one bag.

Option 1 – just the potatoes – you plant them in the ground or your own planter
Option 2 – Three black grow bags and the tubers
Option 3 – Three burgundy grow bags and the tubers
Option 4 – Three Sturdy Green grow bags with handles and the tubers

Soil / compost is not included

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Black and Burgundy Bag information

Filled dimensions (DIAM X HEIGHT) 15 X 15″” – 500 GAUGE

Black fold away polythene plant grow bags made from 100% recycled polythene, all with specific drainage holes punched out in the bottom of each pot.

Soil / compost is required

Summary of grow bag colours and properties

*Ok for domestic recycling – generally black plastic is not accepted through domestic recycling
All plastic needs to be clean for recycling.

*Oxy-biodegradable – Will breakdown within a few years. Can still be recycled into new plastic.

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Green Bag with handles information

30x30x45cm,
40.5 litres
2 lifting handles
1 tip handle
6 drainage holes

Made from Up to 70% Recycled Materials

Weaving top quality, re-useable Polypropylene fabric (PP) requires high-quality raw material – so much as we would like to have all our sacks & bags using 100% recycled PP, it’s counter-productive in terms of performance & durability.

Our supplier uses a minimum of 5% Recycled plastic in all our sacks & are working hard to increase this to 30% by 1st April 2022, therefore reducing plastic waste & bringing cost benefits by avoiding new Tax legislation which applies £200/tonne to all plastic packaging with under 30% recycled content.

Sustainability

At the end of their life span, they can still be recycled to make things like plastic buckets, garden furniture or pallets! Why not consider the benefits of paying a little more for bags which can be re-used & recycled – it benefits the environment & is often far more cost-effective.

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How to grow potatoes in these bags:

Fill about 2/3 of the way up with compost/soil (not included), put 3 tubers in each bag and cover with soil. When the plant emerges, cover with soil and repeat this a couple of times. This encourages downward growth.