SE Essex Seed Potato Day is organised and run entirely by volunteers from both SE Essex Organic Gardeners and local charity, Trust Links. Please check our website for updates – https://seeog.org.uk/
- Approximately 40 varieties of seed potato (some organic) sold individually at 15p per tuber!
- Onion sets, Stuttgart Giant and Red Baron: 90p per half pound
- Garlic, Vigour White and Germidour Pink: £1 each
- Organic Potato Fertiliser: £3.50p per 1 kg
- Chicken Pellets: £1.50 per 2 kg
- Dalefoot Composts
- Southend Seed Swap
- Allotment advice from Jeff Barber, currently the Representative covering the Eastern Region of The National Allotment Society
- The Soil Association’s latest organic research literature
- Pesticide-Free Towns Campaign literature, see http://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free/
Potatoes are usually classified by length of growing season. We set them out in order of length; First Earlies have the shortest season, Late Maincrops the longest. You can actually plant them when you want, but you do best to grow them as soon as the climate permits.
Our list of seed potatoes is now confirmed as:
| First Early |
| Casablanca (organic) |
| Colleen (organic) |
| Epicure |
| Foremost |
| Home Guard |
| Lady Christl |
| Maris Bard (organic) |
| Orla (organic) |
| Red Duke of York |
| Rocket |
| Ulster Prince |
| Ulster Sceptre |
| Winston |
| Second Early |
| Anya |
| Bonnie |
| Charlotte (organic) |
| Kestrel |
| Marfona |
| Maris Peer (organic) |
| Nicola |
| Salad Blue (organic) |
| Wilja |
| Early Maincrop |
| Ambo (organic) |
| Amour |
| Apache |
| Bambino (organic) |
| Blue Belle |
| Desiree (organic) |
| Highland Burgundy Red (organic) |
| International Kidney |
| Maris Piper |
| Milva |
| Pentland Dell |
| Picasso |
| Ratte |
| Record (organic) |
| Red Emmalie (organic) |
| Rooster |
| Late Maincrop |
| Arran Victory (organic) |
| Cara (organic) |
| Golden Wonder (organic) |
| Kerr’s Pink |
| Linda |
| Sarpo Axona |
| Sarpo Mira (organic) |
| Valor |
Notes
The potato is known botanically as Solanum tuberosum. Apache has genes introduced from T. phureja as well. Some say they have shorter cooking times.
We are pleased to include Sarpo varieties which are remarkably resistant to blight. Sarpo Mira and Sarpo Axona continue growing after repeated attacks of foliar blight.
Updated 11 Feb 2017
