JBA Seed Potatoes - Picasso - Maincrop

JBA Seed Potatoes - Picasso - Maincrop

With the Cara potato variety as one of its parents, it's no wonder that Picasso seed potatoes are popular on allotments; just like Cara, Picasso are highly resistant to many potato diseases, can store well and produce a very large crop in the late summer months.

Picasso tubers have a white skin with pink eyes, and a waxy, cream-coloured flesh which makes it the perfect choice for baked potatoes and chips.

Key Information:

• White skinned variety with pink eyes and a cream flesh
• High yielding with good storage potential
• Good disease resistance

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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