JBA Seed Potatoes - Home Guard - First Early

JBA Seed Potatoes - Home Guard - First Early

Named due to their popularity during the Second World War, Home Guard seed potatoes are reliable and produce high yields of oval-shaped, white-skinned tubers. As a first early variety, planting in March should allow for a large harvest in June and July.

Home Guard potatoes have a high resistance to all forms of scab and to spraing, making them a good choice for any first-time potato growers.

Key Information:

• Short oval tubers with a white skin and flesh
• High resistance to all forms of scab and spraing diseases
• High yielding and well known for its early lifting abilities

Advice & Tips:

• Dig over the area you wish to plant your potatoes, removing any weeds.
• Create shallow ridges in the ground approximately 60cm apart, planting the seed potatoes into the ridge approximately 12cm deep and 22cm apart.
• When the plants have grown to approximately 20cm in height, draw soil up around the lower leaves to protect the newly forming potatoes
• For an earlier harvest, potatoes can be chitted before planting - to do this, place the seed potatoes into an open container, such as an egg box, and leave in a light and airy position, protected from frost, to allow the potatoes to grow small shoots. Be careful not to damage the chits when planting into the ground.

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