The Best Blight Resistant Potatoes
How to avoid blight? By growing blight-resistant Potatoes.
Is that really a thing?
"Blight Resistant Potatoes - is that really a thing?" I hear you ask.
The dreaded blight. Every grower's worst nightmare. Even if you are new to growing potatoes, you will have no doubt heard about blight. Stories of entire crops being decimated abound, but with a little planning, you can reduce the risk of this happening to you by growing some of the best blight-resistant potatoes.
Potato and tomato blight (late blight) is a disease caused by a fungus-like organism that spreads rapidly in the foliage and tubers or fruit of potatoes and tomatoes in wet weather, causing collapse and decay.
Blight-resistant potatoes - is that a marketing ploy?
Five of our Blight Resistant Seed Potatoes
Give yourself the best chance against blight
A blue blight resistant potato Blue Anneliese
Blue Annelise
Blue Anneliese is the newest addition to our Speciality range. It produces long shaped, blue skin and blue flesh tubers. Slightly creamy flavour with a nutty aroma.
The Best Blight Resistant Potatoes – Gatsby
Gatsby
It is a cross between Saxon and Valor with high resistance to dry rot and powdery scab. Gatsby has long oval tubers with white skin and cream flesh. It produces a high yield of tubers and it is an ideal baking variety.
Gatsby Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
Coloured varities can also be blight resistant – Heidi Red
Heidi Red
German Speciality variety with medium blight resistance. The Heidi Red (Heiderot) potato produces long shaped tubers with bright red skin and flesh. Heiderot is characterised by a red meat colour and a slightly buttery, delicious potato taste. It is ideal for salads, mash and boiled potatoes.
Heidi Red Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £7.75 through £65.00
The Best Blight Resistant Potatoes – Orla
Orla
A great plant and product loved by many for good reason. Large white tubers of high blight and scab resistance which can be harvested early or left to bulk up. This versatility also extends to the kitchen where potatoes can be used for most cooking methods – from baking and mashing to chips, boiling and roasting.
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
Orla Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
Another great blight resistant Potato – Sarpo Mira
Sarpo Mira
Renowned by many for its resistance to late blight and even blight recovery, this red skinned tuber is oval in shape with pale flesh. High yielding and long storage capacity makes this both a grower and cooker favourite. The original Sarpo and still the most widely known.
Sarpo Mira Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
Gatsby Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00Heidi Red Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £7.75 through £65.00Orla Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00Sarpo Mira Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00How to avoid blight? By growing Early Potatoes!
Don't be put off!
British Queen Seed Potatoes
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
