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Late Season Variety Pack – Bambino Jazzy & Charlotte Seed Potatoes
Price range: £15.50 through £28.50
Our 2026 Late Season range is impressive! We have some lovely varieties for you to grow for an autumn harvest – perhaps even for your Christmas Dinner. We know that people like to experiment and so have this patio pack with three tubers of three varieties for you – Christmas Dinner Sorted! Bags are optional extras.
Bambino Short oval tuber with white skin and cream flesh, great salad variety. Lovely salad potatoes with a smooth light waxy texture. Great organic variety due to high blight, scab and blackleg resistance. 2nd Early Waxy, Organic
Charlotte remains a Christmas favourite thanks to its creamy texture and superb boiling quality. 2nd Early Waxy, Organic
Jazzy is a delicious salad potato with a waxy texture and excellent versatility in the home. It has an excellent taste and good texture and is a long oval shape. New to our late season range. 1st Early Waxy
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.
See tab below for details about the bags.
Pick what option you would like from the pack size menu ⇓.
Tubers only (3 of each variety- 9 in total)– £15.50
Tubers with three burgundy grow bags – £21.55
Tubers with three black grow bags – £21.55
Tubers with three green grow bags with handles – £28.50
| Quantity | Discount | Discounted price |
| 2 + | £1.50 | - |
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.
Small Bags - see further down for the green bags with handles
Filled dimensions (DIAM X HEIGHT) 15 X 15″” – 500 GAUGE
36L
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.
Pack size 2
Manufactured in UK
Soil / compost is not included
Tubers are not included
For illustrative purposes only.
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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.
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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.
🥔 BEIGE Grow Bag – the information below relates to the beige grow bags ONLY
Recycled, recyclable, re-usable and oxo-biodegradable
- Recycled
- Recyclable (carbon black free)
- Re-usable
- Oxo-Biodegradable (NOT oxo-degradable)The new brown grow bag is made from recycled material, is carbon black free, meaning it can be recycled and is oxo-biodegradable.
It is important to distinguish between oxo-biodegrable, and oxo-degradable
Simply put – oxo-biodegradable (which these are) will leave no micro-plastics – they fully biodegrade.Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic
Oxo-Biodegrable means fully degradable plastic/polythene.
Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic is ordinary plastic to which a catalyst has been added during the manufacturing process. The resulting plastic is then made into products like carrier bags, produce or courier bags, straws and other short-life/single-use items.“Oxo-biodegradation” is defined by CEN as “degradation resulting from oxidative and cell-mediated phenomena, either simultaneously or successively”. This describes OBP.
“Oxo-degradation” is defined by CEN (the European Standards authority) in TR15351 as “degradation identified as resulting from oxidative cleavage of macromolecules.” This describes ordinary plastics, which abiotically degrade in the open environment, but do not become biodegradable except over a very long period of time.
In the presence of oxygen, the catalyst accelerates the natural oxidation process and reduces the molecular weight of the polymer at a much faster rate, to the point where it is no longer a plastic and can be bio-assimilated by bacteria and fungi in the natural environment. The process continues until the material has biodegraded to nothing more than CO2, water, and humus. It does not leave fragments of petro-polymers in the soil, and it does not contain heavy metals.
It is tested according to US Standard ASTM D6954 by independent laboratories for degradation, biodegradation, non-toxicity and absence of metals in excess of the limits prescribed by Art 11 of the EU Packaging Waste Directive.
Oxo-biodegradable plastic does just what it says, the clue is in the name – It is called oxo-biodegradable plastic because it is biodegradable. The process has been described as follows by Professor Ignacy Jakubowicz, one of the world’s leading polymer scientists who has studied OBP for more than 20 years:
“The degradation process is not only a fragmentation, but is an entire change of the material from a high molecular weight polymer, to monomeric and oligomeric fragments, and from hydrocarbon molecules to oxygen-containing molecules which can be bioassimilated.”
Oxo-biodegradable plastic degrades, and then biodegrades in the open environment in the same way as nature’s wastes. If oxo-biodegradable plastic merely fragmented without biodegrading, CEN (European Committee for Standardization) would not have defined oxo-biodegradability as “degradation resulting from oxidative and cellmediated phenomena, either simultaneously or successively” and the American, British and French standards organisations would not have included tests for biodegradability in ASTM D6954, BS8472 and ACT01684 563338.
Oxo-biodegradable plastic has been studied by scientists for at least 20 years. Recently a former judge of the High Court in England was asked to review the scientific evidence, and he concluded:
• that OBP does facilitate the ultimate biodegradation of plastics in air or seawater by bacteria, fungi or algae, within a reasonable time, so as to cause the plastic to cease to exist as such, far sooner than ordinary plastics, without causing any toxicity;
• that “the benefit is obvious of reducing future contributions to the scourge of plastic pollution of land and sea”;
• that OBP is compatible with composting and recycling;
The above has been directly quoted from The Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association website.
Green Bag with handles information
30x30x45cm,
40.5 litres
2 lifting handles
1 tip handle
6 drainage holes
Soil / compost is not included
Tubers are not included
For illustrative purposes only.
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.
Late Season Patio Pack Contains
Three nets, one net of each variety Bambino, Jazzy and Charlotte each net containing 3 tubers. 9 tubers in total
🥔Tubers only (9 tubers in total)– £15.50
🥔Tubers with three burgundy grow bags – £21.55
🥔Tubers with three black grow bags – £21.55
🥔Tubers with three green grow bags with handles – £28.50
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.
🥔
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. See our Late Season Planting page for further details.
All disease information taken from Official Sources
Charlotte
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Jazzy
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