New Potato & Vegetable Varieties

Early maincrop.

Potato ‘Sarpo Una’ always performs well, producing high yields of pink skinned, oval, quite waxy tubers with good flavour, that are suitable for general culinary use. This early maincrop variety has excellent tuber blight resistance. Height and spread: 60cm (24").

Useful links:

How to grow potatoes in the ground Potato Selector Guide
How to grow potatoes in bags     How to stop blight

Maincrop.

The latest introduction to the Sárpo range, boasting very high foliage and tuber blight resistance, as well as good resistance to other common potato diseases. Potato ‘Sárpo Gwyn’ produces a good crop of white-skinned and pale fleshed tubers which have a lovely flavour. Perfect for roasting, boiling, baking and mashing.

Useful links:

How to grow potatoes in the ground Potato Selector Guide
How to grow potatoes in bags     How to stop blight

Autumn planting. Hardneck garlic.

Garlic ‘Edenrose’ produces excellent quality bulbs with attractive pink cloves, the colour showing when the outer white skins are peeled back. This outstanding hardneck garlic is renowned throughout France for its superior, delicate flavour. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 15cm (6").

Useful links:

How to grow garlic 

Autumn planting.

From German breeding, Asparagus ‘Ariane’ produces a heavy flush of delicious, large, purple-tipped spears early in the season. Smaller, ‘fine’ spears are also produced later in the season. This attractive variety has significant yield and quality improvements over many other varieties. Height: 150cm (59in). Spread: 45cm (18").

Useful links:

How to grow asparagus 

Maincrop.

Potato ‘Salad Blue’ is a vigorous maincrop variety that is more productive than ‘Congo’ with attractive blue/ purple flowers. Contrary to its name, the spectacular blue, floury flesh, of this unusual coloured potato is best suited to baking, roasting, mash, boiling or chips. Height and spread: 60cm (24").

Useful links:

How to grow potatoes in the ground Potato Selector Guide
How to grow potatoes in bags     How to stop blight

Early maincrop, maincrop.

With exceptional resistance to potato blight, virus, disease and drought, these ‘Sarpo’ varieties produce high yields - even in poorer soils. Perfect for gardeners who want to grow delicious potatoes without the need for chemical sprays, excessive irrigation and soil improvement additives. Heights and spreads: 60cm (24").

• Collection comprises:
• Potato ‘Sárpo Gwyn’ (early maincrop) - Produces a good crop of white-skinned and pale fleshed tubers which have a lovely flavour. Perfect for roasting, boiling, baking and mashing.
• Potato 'Sárpo Shona' (early maincrop) - Short-growing, dense and weed smothering. Can be cooked and eaten in almost every way!
• Potato 'Sárpo Mira' (maincrop) - With unprecedented blight resistance, and good slug resistance, this variety produces huge yields of tasty, floury tubers.
• Potato 'Blue Danube' (early maincrop) - Previously known as ‘Adam Blue’, the stunning blue-purple skinned, oval tubers have bright white flesh of good flavour, that are excellent for general culinary purpose.
• Potato 'Sárpo Kifli' (early maincrop) - Produces elongated white-skinned tubers with a fabulous ‘new potato’ flavour, that is best enjoyed when tubers are freshly harvested and cooked in their skins.
• Potato 'Sárpo Axona' (maincrop) - Similar to 'Sarpo Mira' but the tubers are more regular in shape and the flesh is slightly more creamy.

Useful links:

How to grow potatoes in the ground Potato Selector Guide
How to grow potatoes in bags     How to stop blight

Introduced exclusively by Thompson & Morgan

- Superb as a boiled 'new potato' or left to cool as a salad potato
- Bumper crops of evenly-sized attractive potatoes
- Growing mouth-watering potatoes couldn't be easier

Second early.

High yields of mouth watering, oval ‘baby new potatoes’, with a firm waxy texture and bright, creamy skin and flesh. With a delicious flavour, Potato ‘Piccolo star’ is absolutely superb as a boiled ‘new potato’ or left to cool as a salad potato. Height and spread: 60cm (24")

Useful links:

How to grow potatoes in the ground Potato Selector Guide
How to grow potatoes in bags     How to stop blight