The Best Potatoes For Beginners to Grow
New To Growing Potatoes? We have selected 5 of the best potatoes for beginners to grow
Save £5 when you buy all five recommendations
We are often asked about the best potatoes for beginners to grow. Growing your own vegetables is a wonderful hobby - the taste of freshly harvested potatoes and peas eaten an hour after harvest is just amazing. Potatoes are a relatively easy crop to grow, but like all things that grow they are susceptible to diseases and "eating things". However, by choosing certain varieties, the beginner has more chance of success. We highly recommend "earlies" for beginners for two reasons - they are the quickest to mature and so enthusiasm will hopefully last and also they are likely to be harvested before blight sets it. Blight tends to occur later in the summer and can decimate a crop quite quickly and a beginner may not know what to look out for.
The great thing about growing your own produce is that you can begin to experiment with colours, flavours and textures. It does not take long to find what grows well in your area and what you like.
Five Best Potatoes For Beginners to Grow
Different varieties than what is in supermarkets
Bambino
Short oval tuber with white skin and cream flesh. Lovely salad potatoes with a smooth light waxy texture. Great organic variety due to high blight, scab and blackleg resistance.
Bambino Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00
Jazzy
Good resistance to Scab, Jazzy is a productive potato variety, both in the number of tubers per plant, as well as in yield. 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
Jazzy Seed Potatoes
Price range: £7.90 through £66.00
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: £6.95 through £57.00
Maris Bard
A cream skinned and white fleshed oval tuber variety. Produces a medium waxy potato which holds its shape making it good for boiling and chipping, and a delight in salads. A fast growing and high yielding crop can be expected with a plant of berries and violet flowers.
Maris Bard Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00
Sarpo Una
Multipurpose variety which can produce nice waxy salad potatoes if harvested early or can be left in ground for a heavy crop of baking potatoes. It has good resistance to late blight as well as a range of other diseases. This variety has a lovely pinkish skin.
Sarpo Una Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00
Bambino Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00Jazzy Seed Potatoes
Price range: £7.90 through £66.00Maris Bard Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00Orla Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00Sarpo Una Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.95 through £57.00
We have lots of advice and blogs for beginners - You could challenge a beginner friend to a potato Championchip for a bit of potato fun? If you are growing for the first time we'd love to hear how you get on. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.
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Patio Sets are also great for beginners
We have done the hard work and prepared some patio sets for you, allowing you to try 3 different varieties to see what you like.
Bags are optional extras.
SAVE £5 when you buy two or more patio sets with bags or SAVE £3 when you buy two or more patio sets without bags. Applied automatically.
(not for Sarpo or Children's packs)
Children’s Patio Pack
Price range: £8.95 through £16.80
Early Patio Pack: Casablanca, Red Duke of York, Sharpe’s Express Seed Potatoes
Price range: £14.90 through £25.90 
