Potato : Beginners Collection

Our choice of reliable, easy to grow varieties for both the beginner and the enthusiast.

Collection comprises:

Rocket (First Early)

Pentland Javelin (First Early)

Lady Christl (First Early/Second Early)

Kestrel (Second Early)

Picasso (Early Maincrop)

Desiree (Early Maincrop)

Potato : Bonnie

Bold, round/oval uniformly shaped yellow skinned tubers with pink splashed eyes and cream flesh.

A bright skin finish hence the apt name. Recent tasting assessments have given Bonnie good reviews, particularly boiled and as a baker.

Good disease tolerances and resistant to golden eelworm.

Potato : Christmas New Potato : Carlingford

Grow your own new potatoes for Autumn & Christmas

Second Cropping - ideal for growing in exhibitor bags and potato tubs.

Carlingford - the original 'Second Cropper' and still the best. Oval white skinned and waxy fleshed tubers for the 'New Potato' taste out of season.

Potato : Christmas New Potato : Vivaldi

Grow your own new potatoes for Autumn & Christmas

THE Number 1 for taste, mouthwatering and creamy whether boiled, baked, mashed or roasted. Really versatile as excellent for high yields of 'baby' potatoes. Oval, yellow skinned with pale yellow flesh. Good common scab resistance.

Potato : Estima

Visually appealing early maturing baker with firm, moist, pale yellow fleshed oval tubers. Produces high yields of tubers for both early and later lifting. Excellent drought tolerance.

Potato : Harmony Exhibitors Grade

White skinned smooth oval tubers and waxy cream flesh. A good cropper. Double eelworm resistant and tolerant of common scab.

Uses: Boil/general purpose.

Exhibitor varieties are subject to availability. We will use, wherever possible, a minimum size of 45mm as exhibitor grade.

Potato : Highland Burgundy Red

Burgundy red flesh, colour retained if steamed. Fluffy texture, delicious mild taste.

This unique conservation variety has previously only been available as microplants, now, as tubers, you can easily grow a taste of the past.

Potato : Lady Balfour

Named after the Soil Association founder. Oval, pink splashed tubers with firm, moist creamy flesh. Impressive blight resistance and double eelworm resistance. Huge yields, even in poorer soils. Stores well.

Ideal for the organic gardener.

Potato : Marfona

Very popular as a large tuber early baker. White skinned with pale yellow moist flesh. White flowers.

Potato : Maxine Exhibitor Grade

Large, smooth pale red skinned tubers with white waxy flesh which remains firm on cooking. Golden eelworm and partial white eelworm resistant.

Exhibitor varieties are subject to availability. We will use wherever possible, a minimum size of 45mm as exhibitor grade.

Potato : Mayan Twilight

T&M Exclusive

Unique red and white-skinned tubers with deep yellow, dense flesh. The flavour is both sweet and moreish as a salad eaten either hot or cold with skins on.

Mayan potatoes cook in a third less time than 'conventional' potatoes due to their delicate nature whilst preserving their perfect potato flavour.

Good common scab and blackleg resistance.

Potato : Mimi

Unique cherry sized red skinned salad. Huge yields. Just wash a few tubers, quickly boil in the saucepan, then eat whole as a delicious tasting salad potato. Dwarf foliage.

Easy to grow. Superb in containers; use our increasingly popular growing bags if garden space is limited, ideal for a sunny balcony, or even a backyard for city dwellers.

Potato : Minituber : Aura

Eye catching long yellow firm tubers with name to match. For salad and boiling, superb flavour.

Clinically produced minitubers with maximum plant health protection. 100% Free of all potato pathogens.

Minituber production commences with laboratory in-vitro micropropagation of the initial microplants grown under stringent quality assurance controls. Nodal cuttings are taken from the microplants rooted in sterile nutrient jelly, are moved to a screened compost based or hydroponic growing facility.

This new technology provides secure long term storage of heritage varieties and allowing rapid introduction of varieties, old and new. This is important at a time when many field grown seed varieties worldwide are under increasing pest and disease pressures.

Potato : Minituber : BF15

Belle de Fontenay cross from Brittany retaining its trial name, being larger and earlier tubers than its popular parent, for salads (hot or cold) and boiling.

Clinically produced minitubers with maximum plant health protection. 100% Free of all potato pathogens.

Minituber production commences with laboratory in-vitro micropropagation of the initial microplants grown under stringent quality assurance controls. Nodal cuttings are taken from the microplants rooted in sterile nutrient jelly, are moved to a screened compost based or hydroponic growing facility.

This new technology provides secure long term storage of heritage varieties and allowing rapid introduction of varieties, old and new. This is important at a time when many field grown seed varieties worldwide are under increasing pest and disease pressures.

Potato : Minituber : Fortyfold

This is the oldest culinary British variety still known producing lots and lots of round, purple skinned with white flashes, deep eyed tubers. A real 'nutty' taste, used in the original Lancashire Hotpot. Larger tubers can be baked or roasted, or boiled. A parent of Kerrs.

Clinically produced minitubers with maximum plant health protection. 100% Free of all potato pathogens.

Minituber production commences with laboratory in-vitro micropropagation of the initial microplants grown under stringent quality assurance controls. Nodal cuttings are taken from the microplants rooted in sterile nutrient jelly, are moved to a screened compost based or hydroponic growing facility.

This new technology provides secure long term storage of heritage varieties and allowing rapid introduction of varieties, old and new. This is important at a time when many field grown seed varieties worldwide are under increasing pest and disease pressures.

Potato : Minituber : Mr Little's Yetholm Gypsy

Kept going by the Little family of Yetholm, the only known variety to show red, white and blue colours together in the skin. The flesh is cream, fairly dry and tasty, and suitable for baking, roasting, mash, boiling,or chips.

Clinically produced minitubers with maximum plant health protection. 100% Free of all potato pathogens.

Minituber production commences with laboratory in-vitro micropropagation of the initial microplants grown under stringent quality assurance controls. Nodal cuttings are taken from the microplants rooted in sterile nutrient jelly, are moved to a screened compost based or hydroponic growing facility.

This new technology provides secure long term storage of heritage varieties and allowing rapid introduction of varieties, old and new. This is important at a time when many field grown seed varieties worldwide are under increasing pest and disease pressures.