The highlights
- Richly-flavoured potatoes with floury flesh
- Super hardy and pretty much slugproof
- Rustle up a batch of fluffy roasties
- Maincrop – harvest from August
Description
- A traditional, heritage variety with a russet skin and a golden colour
- Maincrop potatoes are grown to maturity for eating straight away or storing over the winter. They are harvested from September to October
- Grow in open ground, traditional potato sacks or pots at least 45cm wide and deep (two plants per pot)
- For those who were wondering, yes the crisps were named after it!
- Hard as nails, slugs don’t eat it – their loss
- Premium, UK grown first grade seed potatoes sent to you at the best possible time for planting. Always use the highest grade of seed potatoes to ensure a plentiful crop with high pest and disease resistance
- Floury texture – one of the best potatoes for baking, frying or roasting
