Certified Seed Potato ‘King Edward’ – 1kg bag

King Edward is a medium-large rounded potato with a yellow-cream skin with pink-red blushes. The flesh is a creamy-white colour with a floury texture. King Edward potatoes are ideal for making mash, baking and roasting. It is not recommended for salads or frying.  This is a high producing variety which can take up to 100+ to reach maturity after planting.

How to Chit Potatoes: 
Take your tubers (seed potatoes) and space them out and store in a cool area. Within a week or two, white roots will begin to sprout. Allow the roots to reach at least 2cm in length before planting out into the garden. Handle them carefully as the roots are fragile and can be broken easily.

Planting: Plant before the last frost. From mid-June to August.

Planting Depth: Plant tubers in a small ditch, 15-20cm deep and then cover with 30-40cm of mulch and humus-rich soil. As new shoots appear, keep mounding more mulch or organic matter to exclude their shoots from the light. Make a hill around where the seed potato (tubers) are planted. If shoots are exposed to frost, protective measures need to be in place as their young shoots are sensitive to these conditions. Once the risk of the last frost has past allow the shoots to emerge.

Harvest: 60 – 110 days after the last frost. Once the shoots have flowered and foliage begins to die back to soil level, cut the foliage down and leave the potatoes to rest for 2-3 weeks prior to digging up. This allows the skins to harden for better storage.