Delivery Information

We had a 98% success rate for our popular FREE delayed delivery service last year. Potatoes arrive in perfect condition when you want them as they have been kept in cold storage.

We will dispatch Seed Potatoes and accessories on a week to suit you in the Spring at no extra charge.

Prices include UK delivery with very few exceptions.

Orders will be dispatched within 4 days then will take 4-5 days to get to you. But this can be longer especially if we have any industrial action.

If you want a specific week, let us know at checkout box. 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!

Do not ask for delivery too early 4-6 weeks before planting is best.

After delivery it is YOUR responsibility to store the seed potatoes in the correct manner. We have a FREE DELAYED DELIVERY service for our customers and STRONGLY recommend that you if you do not have the correct conditions to store the seed potatoes it would be better to ask for delivery 4-6 weeks before you intend to plant. 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. A mixed order for Seed Potatoes and Potatoes to Eat is welcome as long as they are to be dispatched immediately.

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

Growing late season potatoes

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 Award of Garden Merit

RHS Seed potatoes

RHS Award of Garden Merit.

Name: Children's Patio Pack: Casablanca, Shannon Seed Potatoes
Price: 7.9 GBP
Availability: InStock

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.

Share your stories and grow Potatoes

Have a great time in the kitchen! Let us know what you have cooked! Upload pics to our social media @potatohouseuk using #potatohousetoeat and #ThePotatoName (eg #shetlandblack).

Do you know we also sell seed potatoes? If you like this variety you can grow it in your garden. If you have never grown potatoes before, don't worry, we're here to help.

Potatoes To Eat Stock Information

Which Potato Should I EatEating potatoes, Speciality, Heritage, Organic, coloured potatoes to eat

Potatoes to Eat range will change throughout the season - please join our newsletter (tick box Potatoes to Eat) for up-to-date information or bookmark here and check back. Although we grow over 90 varieties this is mainly for seed potatoes and not all our varieties will be available in our To Eat range. Let us know what you would like to see in this range - we welcome your feedback on this new venture.

We aim to have potatoes 9 months of the year for you and are looking to extend this for 2023-24

If a variety has COMING SOON we intend on having this for you in this season. We have to plan storage and washing facilities and can't give a certain date until a few days before we have it for you. We will have better plans in the future once we get into a routine.

If a product has DELAY TO REBAG on it, it means that we need to check stock, and wash 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.

If a product has SOLD OUT for 2024, it really does mean sold out.

Seed Potatoes Stock Information

Here at Potato House, we net and bag up most of our seed 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.

We have four different stock message labels on our seed potatoes. These will vary as the season progresses.

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. We are 99% sure that this variety will be for sale before Christmas, but it isn't listed until we know that it has passed all relevant inspections.

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. In some circumstances a variety can go back on for sale - it will depend on the final bagging up for customers over the next few weeks. If you go on the stock alert you will be notified either later in this season, or for next season.

If a product has SOLD OUT, it really does mean sold out. Please go on the stock alert for the following year and we will let you know when we have it for sale again.

If a product has UNAVAILABLE 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 grow it again in the future. We also have been affected by Brexit as we are now prohibited to sell seed Potatoes to EU AND NI. We sold 40% of our harvest to EU and some varieties are sadly now unviable without this market. Occasionally there is a crop failure.

If a PACK SIZE has sold out (eg there are 6 tuber nets available, but no 1 kg nets) this will be getting rebagged, if we have more of that variety left.

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 sign up for the stock alert found on each variety or 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 this.

Some varieties are grown to order for customers and we will have most of the crop sold but will perhaps have some available once we do the final bagging for our customers therefore new varieties may sometimes appear mid-season.

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GYOP Project information

GYOP was created and has been delivered by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) for many years. In recent years it has delivered Grow Your Own packs of seed potatoes, grow bags and instructions FREE to 15,000 classrooms across the UK each year, giving school children an insight into where their potatoes come from. Further learning resources linked fresh potatoes to the various ways that we eat potatoes and potato products in the UK.

In 2021 funding for AHDB Potatoes ended and the programme was due to be wound up. Skea Organics and Potato House have been enthusiastic supporters of GYOP for a number of years, having donated seed potatoes. We also support local projects and see the enthusiasm school children have for growing their own potatoes first hand. We are therefore determined not to let the Grow Your Own Potatoes programme fall by the wayside and are providing a new home for it within Potato House.

Now the hard work begins, we need to find sponsors from within the potato industry to help us keep the programme going.

The supply of seed potatoes is only one part of this project, with other costs such as packaging, postage and on-going technical/web support making a huge percentage.

You are supporting this project by purchasing this product as 20% of sales will go directly to GYOP.

If you are a primary school teacher, you may be eligible to receive a free pack for your school. The GYOP project is running this year but on a much smaller scale, while we work with industry to secure funding going forward. To register you need to visit the GYOP website Register | Grow Your Own Potatoes Kits are limited and will be distributed on a first come first serve basis, so register now to avoid disappointment.

If you have any problems registering please let Sue know

Patio Pack Contents

Pack will contain:

2 nets: 4 tubers of Casablanca and 3 Shannon*. 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 (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.

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 2022 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 £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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Children’s Patio Pack: Casablanca, Shannon Seed Potatoes

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

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

Pick what option you would like from the Children’s Pack menu ⇓.