The Best Potatoes For Beginners to Grow

New To growing Potatoes? We have selected 5 of the best potatoes for beginners to grow

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.

Chitting becomes less important the further on in the spring we are. With our fast delivery, you could be planting your potatoes within a week from order. Taking around 100 days for earlies just think of the lovely new potatoes. We have lots of advice and blogs for beginners – why not challenge a beginner friend to a potato Championchip for a bit of potato fun?

If you buy all five of our recommendations you can get £1 off each net. This offer applies to any variety and so don’t worry if you don’t like our recommendations. The following list of best potatoes for beginners to grow is just some suggestions for you and not a definite list.

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Ambo

£5.95 – £37.50

Bambino

£5.95 – £42.50

Casablanca

£4.95 – £37.50

Charlotte

Rated 5.00 out of 5

£4.95 – £37.50

Sarpo Una

£4.95 – £37.50

Bambino

£5.95 – £42.50

The Best Potato For Beginners to Grow - 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.

A slightly unusual choice - Ambo

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.

Ambo is a very attractive early maturing versatile parti-coloured variety with good foliage and tuber late blight resistance. High yielding in a wide range of soil types and presents good drought resistance. Resistance to late blight on tubers. Popular with growers for its good blight and scab resistance the plant produces a high yield of floury potatoes which can be boiled or baked

Ambo

£5.95 – £37.50

Casablanca

£4.95 – £37.50

The Best Potato To Grow For Beginners - Casablanca

Chefs and cooks will love the versatility of the potato Casablanca. Good for all uses from boiling and chipping to mash 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

Blight resistant - 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

£4.95 – £37.50

Charlotte

Rated 5.00 out of 5

£4.95 – £37.50

Best Potato For Beginners to Grow - Charlotte

Charlotte is best known for its culinary excellence, of course it is French. Best eaten fresh as a salad it can be stored up till Christmas. It is noted for good resistance against slugs and common scab leading to good appearance. Charlotte potatoes have a fresh flavour which tastes great either hot or cold. They are ideal boiled as part of a salad as they hold their shape well and can even be roasted whole.

This is another potato with an RHS Awards of Garden Merit.

This list is just some suggestions for you. However, you can browse all the earlies and indeed our entire collection. If something takes your fancy, go for it! Although earlies are especially recommended for beginners, potatoes are a relatively easy crop to grow and so if you like another variety not listed here, try it out. We have lots of information to help you chose which potato to grow, as well as a great FAQ on how to grow potatoes. We are here to help at any time with your potato questions.

The Best Potatoes For Beginners to Grow

New To growing Potatoes? We have selected 5 of the best potatoes for beginners to grow

The Best Potato For Beginners to Grow - Bambino

A slightly unusual choice - Ambo

The Best Potato To Grow For Beginners - Casablanca

Blight resistant - Sarpo Una

Best Potato For Beginners to Grow - Charlotte

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