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Charlotte Organic Late Season Seed Potatoes
Price range: £7.60 through £9.80
Charlotte is best known for its culinary excellence, of course it is French. Best eaten fresh as a salad it can be stored up till Christmas. It is noted for good resistance against slugs and common scab leading to good appearance. Charlotte potatoes have a fresh flavour which tastes great either hot or cold. They are ideal boiled as part of a salad as they hold their shape well and can even be roasted whole.
Information for Late Season Potatoes
We are sending our late season potatoes out twice per week over the summer. We would suggest that the end of August is probably the latest to plant to give a good crop. However we did have customers planting in September in recent years with good results, You can chit for a few weeks, but this is not necessary. Remember there is not as much heat and light in the autumn and so the yields will not be as large as a spring/summer crop.
Please see here for more information about growing late season potatoes.
| Quantity | Discount | Discounted price |
| 5 - 9 | £1.00 | £6.60 |
| 10 + | £2.00 | £5.60 |
Why not try all them all?
Selection packs of three varieties of late season potatoes in 3 tuber nets are available with or without bags. Perfect number to try out a few varieties
We also have a range of grow bags which are great for growing a variety of vegetables - not just potatoes. You can move the bags into a shed if there is an early frost
Late Season Variety Pack – Bambino Jazzy & Charlotte Seed Potatoes
Price range: £15.50 through £28.50We recommend you plant late season potatoes by end of July/Beginning Aug for most customers. Mid-August if you are in a warmer area. This will give enough heat and light for a decent crop. However some customers do plant in September.
Time left to plant:
Delivery Information for Late Season Seed Potatoes for an autumn harvest
Home Grown Potatoes for Christmas Dinner
Orders will be dispatched twice a week and then will take 4-5 days to get to you. But this can be longer especially if we have any industrial action.
There is no need to chit at this point, but there would be no harm if you chitted for a few weeks - this is especially true if you have children and want to show them the process. Your late season harvest will not be as large as a summer harvest. We strongly suggest that your potatoes are planted by end July / mid August at the latest as there is not enough heat and light in the autumn to give a good harvest. However we did have customers who planted in September in 2023 and so it is possible (if you are further south or have a greenhouse/polytunnel). Please see here for more details.
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.
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.
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. If you require us to split the delivery YOU MUST do two orders. Bulk discounts are only available for the same order.
We operate just north of Dundee and even in June and July we can get a frost! 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 FAQ page for more information on payment, discounts and delivery dates and our Terms and Conditions regarding refunds.
We're here to help all season long and will answer questions over social media and email.
For orders:
up to 2kg we use Royal Mail
2-10 kg we use Hermes / Evri
10 kg+ Parcel Force
The vast majority of our parcels arrive at their destination on time and intact, which is of no consolation when there are issues. It is as frustrating for us as it is for our customers when delays happen as we work hard to get our orders out in a timely manner.
Changing courier companies is not as easy as it sounds – we are “rurally challenged” – changing courier companies is not very easy when the courier depots are 15 miles away, necessitating a round trip of an hour and a half (meaning staff time away from other jobs – i.e. packing other orders – and the expense of vehicle, fuel and parking). Hermes/Evri offers a pickup service to us. We have to have a courier company that will deliver to Shetland, Cornwall and everywhere in-between. Changing companies would result in an overall slower and more expensive service to the majority of our customers. Different people in different areas of the country will state that X company is the worst.
If there is a known problem with delivery in your area, please contact us BEFORE you place your order and we will see if we can work something out.
If a parcel goes missing we will get another one out to you immediately – we have to wait for 28 days to make our claim.
Tuber size and appearance.
The size will vary depending on the variety and the overall harvest the previous year.
🥔Seed Potatoes are generally much smaller than the eating equivalent. Unless otherwise stated, Potato House sells seed potatoes as 35mm-55mm which is the industry standard across the UK.
🥔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.
🥔The legal limit for UK seed potatoes is 25mm. We abide by the rules set in The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015
🥔 Seed Potatoes are a natural product. Variations between varieties and different years are to be expected.
🥔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. However the overall legal limit for a 6 tuber pack is 150g. Most of our 6 tuber packs will be double or even treble this, depending on the variety.
🥔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 customers 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. If we did do further grading, the price would go up for all our customers.
FINGERLING VARIETIES such as Anya, Ratte and Pink Fir Apple
Fingerling types like Ratte can be harder to grade than round types. While most seed potatoes are categorized by the standard range, the natural tuber shape for fingerlings is long and slender. Their irregular, long, and often tapered shapes make automated sizing difficult and manual sorting time-consuming. The minimum length of these varieties sold by us will be 35mm. The diameter will be smaller.
BBC's Gardener's World has a fantastic video of Monty Don chitting his potatoes on their facebook page - his chitting tray shows an array of sizes.
We have a few award-winning bloggers working with us, who take pics of their chitting potatoes and the different sizes. Rob Smith is a writer for many gardening magazines, and his pictures on his facebook page clearly show different sizes of potatoes from the same net.
If you put "does the size of a seed potato matter UK" into google, it brings up the following Yes, the size of a seed potato matters in the UK, as it influences the number and size of the harvested tubers rather than the total yield, with ideal sizes generally ranging between 25 and 50 mm"
Interestingly, we are listed on page one of that search - our FAQ about the size of potatoes is highlighted by Google - see screen shot and link.
🥔 For the last few years we have trialled 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 expectation that a seed potato will be 100% perfect is not what reality is, although this expectation will be met 75% of the time.
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 and are governed by the BPTA Conditions of Sale.
How to grow potatoes indoors for Christmas harvests
- Use a container at least 30cm (1ft) deep and wide, with drainage holes in the base
- Add a layer of potting compost or garden soil mixed with garden compost or well-rotted manure. A layer 10cm (4in) thick is sufficient for 30cm (1ft) deep pots, but larger containers can be half-filled.
- Plant one to three tubers per pot, each with about 30cm (1ft) of space, and cover with 15cm (6in) of compost or soil.
- As the foliage develops, earth up the potatoes with further compost or soil until the container is full to within 5cm (2in) of the top. Leave a lip to aid watering.
- Keep well-watered and feed with a general-purpose liquid fertiliser.
- Ensure the greenhouse remains frost-free as the season progresses, as potato foliage would be damaged by frost.
- The foliage will yellow and die down in late autumn and can then be removed and composted.
- Tubers can be left in their pots in compost (kept fairly dry) until needed at Christmas.
How to grow potatoes outdoors for Christmas harvests
- Follow general instructions for growing potatoes, including planting them in a trench and earthing them up as they begin to grow.
- Take measures to protect against potato blight and slugs.
- Once foliage dies down in September or October, remove and compost it.
- On light soils in a sheltered garden, piling some earth up over the row where you know the potatoes are and covering it with straw to insulate tubers may be sufficient protection to store them in the ground until Christmas.
- In cold areas, or where soils are wet and heavy, it is better to lift tubers by the end of October and re-bury them in coarse sand or soil in a frost-free place (such as a garden shed) until you need them.
- Lifting and storing potatoes in the fridge, or in bags in a cool shed, is possible but will cause the skins to harden and the desirable, delicate ‘new-potato’ flavour and texture will be lost.
Problems
- Potatoes are prone to scab and a number of rots but this can usually be avoided when they are grown in fresh compost in containers
- Slugs and snails can damage foliage, stems and tubers underground
- Potatoes grown outside in summer and autumn are especially prone to potato blight. Those in containers indoors are not usually at risk
- Keep an eye on the weather forecasts as early frosts will blacken foliage and weaken plants; fleece protection may be needed for outdoor crops.
So what are YOU having with your potatoes this year? Side dish of turkey, ham or nut roast? Let the potatoes take centre stage.
RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit
This plant/cultivar has been awarded the RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit because it has proved to be reliable in appropriate conditions and a good-performing plant. For more information on RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit plants, please visit the RHS Plant Trials and Awards page.
To see the potatoes in the list, click on LISTS half way down this page, Click Fruit, herbs and vegetables then scroll to potatoes
What is the RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit?
The RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit is intended to help gardeners choose plants that are reliable and perform well in gardens. It is only awarded to plants that are:
- Easy to grow and reliable in normal garden conditions
- Readily available to buy in garden centres or online
- Healthy, robust plants with strong growth and appearance
- True to type, maintaining consistent shape, colour and form
- Reasonably resistant to common pests and diseases
To ensure consistent standards are maintained, the RHS Recommended: AGM is subject to regular review to make sure that every plant still merits its place on the list. Since 2013, reviews have been conducted by each RHS Expert Group on a rolling basis.
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 about this award, please contact RHS directly.
Some exciting news for 2026 - we have lots more of our varieties in trials with RHS.
Susceptible to late blight on foliage, potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis and Globodera pallida . Tests show resistance to Blackleg.
Parentage Hansa x Danae
Disease results from independent trials by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)
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