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Pot Luck Potato Net
Price range: £6.00 through £7.00
Peeling lucky? Our Pot Luck mix is exactly what it sounds like: A lucky dip of seed potatoes from the last of our remaining usual-season stocks. 🥔 🎲
Spend £15 on late-season potatoes and get our Pot Luck net HALF PRICE 🥔✨
You won’t know exactly what’s turning up, but that’s half the fun. You may discover a hidden gem, a future favourite, or a variety you’d never normally pick for yourself. Some customers may even find their ultimate mash match this way. A chip off the old stock will arrive for you to plant.
Discover New Potato Varieties
Perfect for adventurous growers, curious cooks, and anyone happy to let fate take the wheel… or should that be the potato spinner?
Stocks are low, varieties will vary, and once the usual-season spuds are gone, they’re gone, so don’t miss the boat before this lot become hot potatoes. 🥔🔥
This is a random selection with low overall stock. Maturity, organic status, and other characteristics can be requested but there is NO GUARANTEE we will have a variety with your choice✨We will NOT INFORM you if we have found your choice or the variety in your order prior to dispatch. Your net will arrive with the variety and maturity on its label. If you order two or more nets we will try to pick different varieties.
PLEASE NOTE – 6 tuber net also includes any of our varieties that were pre-packed in 5-tuber nets, such as Anya. Pot Luck nets are NOT included in our bulk deal.
Spend £15 on late-season potatoes and get our Pot Luck net HALF PRICE 🥔✨
Grow bags are ideal if you are short on space
Each bag will take 3 tubers. Sold in packs of 2
Grow Bags
Price range: £5.60 through £6.85
Hessian Sacks
Price range: £6.95 through £19.95🥔How do I chit, plant, grow and harvest my potatoes? What problems will I have? Join our newsletter to get growing information sent to you at the correct time after purchase.
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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
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.
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