Children's Grow your Own Potato Pack
Casablanca Seed Potato
Sarpo Una Seed Potato
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Children’s Patio Kit

£6.95 – £13.95

Grow your own potatoes
Great hand-picked selection to get children interested in growing potatoes complete with a fascinating experiment and a huge educational resource bank.

We have picked two varieties for their disease resistance, and general appearance. We have gone for earlies which will be ready within around 100 days and so the enthusiasm of the children will hopefully still be there.  Casablanca is listed in the RHS Award of Garden Merit which indicates they are easy to grow (see RHS tab below) and the Sarpo Una is renowned for its blight resistance.

Contents 2 nets: 4 tubers of Casablanca and 3 Sarpo Una. 7 tubers in total.  Bags are optional extras.

🥔 Casablanca a lovely smooth first early.  It is what children will associate with potatoes and will feel safe growing and eating these.  We have a great experiment for you to do with your children the extra tuber.

🥔 Sarpo Una – a smooth second early variety.  We want children to be excited about different colours and textures and this variety fits the bill with red skin and creamy flesh.

Grow your own potatoes
20% of the purchase price of these packs will go towards Grow your own Potatoes (GYOP) – see GYOP tab below

This pack mimics the packs that are sent out to schools via the Grow Your Own Potatoes project of which we are proud sponsors.   GYOP has an incredible amount of information for growing potatoes with children along with projects – and in particular a project for the extra tuber of Casablanca – Beneath the Soil.

This tuber can be planted as normal, if you do not want to do this interesting experiment.

Grow your own potatoes

We also have a great page with advice for growing potatoes with children.

Potatoes are easy to grow and children love the aliens coming from the potato when chitting. If you do chit you can leave the children alone in the kitchen and tell them it is a very important job – the tubers need to be put in size order going up then going down….labels need to be made, pictures drawn – this can take hours and shouldn’t be rushed! They have to shout “Chits Away” very loudly and often. (Following us for child care advice is optional).

See tabs below for details about the bags, more information about GYOP and instructions.

Pick what option you would like from the pack size menu ⇓.

🥔Tubers only – ÂŁ6.95
🥔Tubers with two black grow bags – ÂŁ9.95
🥔Tubers with two green grow bags with handles – ÂŁ13.95

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⇓ FOR MORE INFORMATION see Tabs →

⇓ Disease Resistance and Tuber Size or Grow Bag Details →

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Delivery

Delivery

May is the perfect time to plant your potatoes. Chitting is not so important later in the Spring

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

We aim to dispatch within 3 days 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!

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



RHS Award of Garden Merit

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 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

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.
Disease resistance

Description

Casablanca Information
Casablanca Disease Resistance

Sarpo Una Information
Sarpo Una Disease Resistance

Growing Earlies

Growing Earlies

Potato House first Early Seed potatoes Potato House second early 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 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 our FAQ page for more information on the differences in crop varieties and common problems
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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 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.

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 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.

Patio Pack Contains and GYOP info

Pack will contain:

2 nets:  4 tubers of Casablanca and 3 Sarpo Una. 7 tubers in total

Then you can decide whether you would like some bags or not.

Option 1 - just the potatoes - you plant them in the ground or your own planter
Option 2 - Two black grow bags
Option 3 - Two Sturdy Green grow bags with handles

Soil / compost is not included.  Gloves and gardening accessories are not included.  Pictured for illustrative purposes.

Varieties may be substituted with suitable alternatives if these original varieties become unavailable

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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.   For a full guide, please see here.

Grow your own potatoes

Grow Your Own Potatoes (GYOP) has an incredible amount of information for growing potatoes with children along with projects - and in particular a project for the extra tuber of Casablanca - Beneath the Soil.

Although this tuber can be planted as normal if you do not want to do this interesting experiment.

Grow your own potatoes

What is the Grow Your Own Potatoes project?

Historically, the Grow your own Potatoes project was funded by money collected from the potato industry. Unfortunately, the source of this funding has come to an end. A team of dedicated individuals have taken the project over and are now exploring new ways to raise funds to keep it going, and in a very short time raising funds to send out 3000 kits in 2022.

We Proudly Support GYOP

We are aiming to raise more funds for next year but in the meantime we can supply the same growing kits from our website and it provides the same access to learning resources.  For our full statement, and growing guides please see here

Would you like to support GYOP?

Since we launched this in February we have been asked by customers how they can support this project and if they can donate money.  As we are not a charity and neither is the GYOP project, this would be hard to administer.  The easiest thing would be for you to buy a kit and donate it to a local youth group.  We can even send this to the group.

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Black Bag information

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

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

Can be re-used a few times.

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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 ÂŁ200/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.