ZZZ DISCONTINUED Potato Tuber Salad Blue

A blue heritage potato that is easy to grow, even if you've never done it before.

Originated from Scotland in the early 1900s and the stunning colour of this potato is what makes it so different from the 'normal potato', it even retains it's blue / purple colour when they are cooked, so can be most helpful in encouraging children to eat them or can make a real talking point at dinner parties!

Salad blue are good for mashing, chips, roast, jackets or even home-made crisps - but not salad potatoes as the name suggests!

The short, oval, blue/purple tubers contain natural anti-oxidants so are pretty good for you as well as tasting lovely.

• Maincrop or Second Early variety.
• Blue coloured skin and flesh.
• Likes a full sun position.
• Prefers a well drained soil.
• Reach 4 feet (130 cm) tall.
• Plant February to April (depending on season).
• Harvest June - August (depending on season).
• Chit your potoates (egg boxes can be good for this).
• Dig trenches 2 feet (75 cm) wide, 5" (12 cm) deep.
• Press the potatoes into the trench18" (45 cm) apart with chits facing up.
• Cover the potatoes will soil.
• Water in and keep the crop well watered in dry spells.
• When the haulm (top growth of the plants) reaches 8" (20 cm) earth up around the plants leaveing just the top 4" (10 cm) showing, repeat later if required.
• Crop in approximately 20 weeks.