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Cara

(2 customer reviews)

£4.95 – £37.50

Gardeners love Cara for its high levels of resistance to drought, blight, common scab and viruses. One of the best hardy growers, the tubers are white and round with shallow pink eyes. In the kitchen they are good for baking and chipping.

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Grow bags are included in the 6 tuber/1 kg deal

Grow bags are ideal if you are short on space

Each bag will take 3 tubers.  Sold in packs of 2

For official variety disease resistance results, reviews, stock status and more, see tabs below.

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Delivery

Delivery

June & July are the perfect months to plant your late season potatoes. Chitting is not so important later in the Spring

Our FAST FREE delivery means you can be planting next week.

We dispatch once a week in the summer and then delivery will take 3-4 days. Prices include UK delivery with very few exceptions.

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.  Please see FAQ for full details

For Isle of Man and the Channel Islands please see FAQ for details

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 may still take a day or two to organise and 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.

We are reluctantly forced to close our online shop to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland. 17/12/20 saw the last order come in from France. Full statement and further information here.

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!

Free Uk Delivery of Seed Potatoes

If you want a specific week, let us know at checkout box and we will do our best to send it out then. We recommend that you get your potatoes in plenty of time to chit. If you plan to plant in March, we would suggest delivery in late January/February to give 4-6 weeks chitting, if you plan to plant in April, a late February/March date would suit. OVER 98% success rate last year! (not available for late season potatoes)

All products ordered will be sent together in the same delivery. If you require us to split the delivery please do two orders. Bulk discounts are only available for the same order.

To ensure your order arrives in the best possible condition, deliveries will be made as soon as all the varieties on your order are available, using an appropriate courier or postal service.

If you choose to pay by BACS or cheque we will not begin to process your order out until your payment has been received and cleared. This could take a few days and may not be checked each day.

During times of frost or low temperatures deliveries will be held back until more favourable conditions prevail.

Some deliveries may be delayed if we have to re- stock our nets, we will try to keep you informed of any delays.

See our FAQ page for more information on payment, discounts and delivery as well as our Terms and Conditions regarding refunds



Disease resistance

Description

Susceptible to Dry rot Fusarium sulphureum Powdery scab, potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida Pa2/3,1. Tests show resistance to late blight on tubers, Silver scurf, common scab potato virus Yo, Bruising and Splitting. Cara is resistant to potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis Ro1.
Parentage Ulster Glade x A25/19

Disease results from independent trials by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)

Growing Main Crop

Growing Main Crop

Potato House Early Main Crop Seed Potatoes Potato House Main Crop Seed Potatoes

  • Chitting is simply waking the seed potato up after its winter dormancy ready to grow. We have a great video on How to Chit potatoes

  • It is definitely a good idea to chit, but to do this you need to get your seed nice and early – maybe January or February if you are in the South of England and March or April if you are in North of Scotland. 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.

  • If you buy your seed in April or May, however, then there is little or no advantage in chitting since the soil temperature will be ok for planting, though the unchitted seed will take c4 weeks to come through the ground.

  • 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 Main Crop and Main Crop take around 15 – 22 week respectively to mature. Main crops can be planted till around mid May depending on where you are in the UK

  • 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 37cm (15in) for maincrop varieties in rows 75cm (30in) 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 maincrops for storage wait until the foliage turns yellow, then cut it and remove it. Leave for 10 days before harvesting the tubers - this allows the skin to set, leaving them to dry for a few hours before storing.


See our FAQ page for more information on the differences in crop varieties and common problems
Reviews (2)

2 reviews for Cara

  1. Lorraine Coates (verified owner) –

    Beautiful tatties, a family favourite, great baked & best chips ever!

  2. Penny Millar –

    This was my first season growing anything and the staff recommended a few varieties for me and I was delighted with all the suggestions. I got a good crop and this was my favourite.

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Tuber size and appearance

Tuber size and appearance

There are huge variations in size within a net - this is normal. Seed Potatoes are a natural product. These pictures are representative of the nets we sell. 

Tuber size and appearance.

The size will vary depending on the variety and the overall harvest the previous year.

size of seed potatoes
Chitting different sizes
How to chit potatoes

🥔Seed Potatoes are generally much smaller than the eating equivalent.  Unless otherwise stated, we sell our potatoes as 35mm-55mm which is the industry standard across the UK. The legal limit for UK seed potatoes is 25mm.
🥔This does not mean that the tuber is 35mmx55mm This means that when the potato is graded, it will fall through a 55mm square, but not through a 35mm square.
🥔Our 3-tuber and 6-tuber nets of potatoes are packed by number, not weight and there can be a variation on the size of the tubers in each net.
🥔Our 1kg nets are 1kg, but can also have variation in size of the tubers within that net. There is an average of 12-14 tubers in a 1kg net. But this can vary depending on variety and the harvest.  The number could be as low as 8 or as high as 16.  Our netting machine picks the potatoes to get the weight right.  
🥔We could supply only the mid sized tubers - but then if the larger and smaller could not be sold we would need to charge double for the medium ones and this would generate huge waste.   This is especially true of our rare varieties.
🥔Pictures show the variation in size.  The bottom two are from delighted customers who uploaded these to our Facebook reviews. Every tuber here produced a great yield.
🥔Customers' expectations of what size a seed potato should be can be very different. Some customer like large potatoes to cut and others like the smallest possible tubers.  We have 90 different varieties in 4 different net sizes and do not do any further grading due to the work involved and the storage space in our store.  

🥔 Last year and this year we are trialling selling much smaller potatoes and these will be very clearly marked and sold in 450g nets to avoid confusion. We are offering these to you as a trial - by having a market for these potatoes which are smaller than our usual and being able to sell at a reduced price means that we can keep our prices low overall. These will be offered, if available when we have sold out of our standard potatoes. They are still within the size limits allowed to be sold as seed potatoes (25mm min shortest edge) and will give a good crop. There are around 12 in a 450g bag and we would suggest planting two of these as one. The 450g nets are included in the 6 tuber net and 1kg bulk deals. Your feedback is most welcome whether you buy or not, please let us know.

The pictures on our web are of tubers that have been freshly harvested and washed. This is to show what they will look like when you harvest and wash your potatoes. When your seed potatoes arrive, they will be dirty, some bright colours may have faded, and they may have some mechanical scuff marks and scab. These are within the permitted levels to be sold. See FAQ for more details.

We abide by the rules set in The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Stock Information

Here at Potato House, we net and bag up most of our potatoes. If a net size or variety is out of stock this could be temporary or indeed we could well be out of stock for the season. There could be a delay from our store to the web as we communicate this information.

Most varieties are available between December and mid-May. However we grow a lot of varieties in small quantities and these will sell out quite fast these varieties are only available in 6 tuber and 1 kg nets.

Some varieties are "sold out" before the start of the season - we will have most of the crop sold but will perhaps have some available later once we do the final bagging for our customers and therefore new varieties appear mid-season.   Some varieties are grown to order - these are not even listed on our web. 

If a product has COMING SOON it means we are still assessing quality/quantity from our harvest, or that we are in the process of buying this variety from our trusted growers.

If a product has only some net sizes available it could mean we are coming to the end of that variety or that we need to net up some sizes. 

If a product has DELAY TO REBAG on it, it means that we need to check stock and re-bag if we still have some left. This is not a guarantee that we do have more in stock. We have to check. Later in the season, the quality can deteriorate quickly and we may need to withdraw a variety.

If a product has SOLD OUT for 2022, it really does mean sold out.

If a product has UNAVAILABLE FOR 21-22 it means that we have had this variety in recent years but are not able to supply it for this season. We simply do not have the room to grow every variety each year and so if you are looking for a variety that you bought from us before and we now don't stock it, we may have it in the future. Occasionally there is a crop failure.

Potato House grows around 90 varieties and some are in small quantities and sell out quickly. We leave these products on our web and if you are looking for a particular variety, we invite you to join our mailing list. When we harvest in the autumn and know quantities we then will open our web up for pre-orders and let our mailing list know about the varieties. You can also sign up for individual variety alerts found on the variety page.