How to grow Potato (Charlotte)

Solanum tuberosum

🥕 Vegetable 🌱 Grown each year

A second-early salad potato with waxy, creamy-yellow flesh — excellent boiled, in salads or roasted whole.

At a glance: Sow mid March to late April, harvest from late June.

When to sow, plant and harvest

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Sow outdoors

Flowers

Harvest

Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.

Mid February – mid April · 8 weeks before the last spring frost
Chit Seed Potatoes (optional)
Stand seed potatoes eye-end up in egg boxes somewhere light and cool so they grow short, sturdy shoots.
Mid March – late April · 4 weeks before the last spring frost
Plant Seed potatoes
Plant seed potatoes 35 cm, rows 60 cm apart apart in rows.
14–28 days after “Plant Seed potatoes” · Early April – mid April
Look for Shoots
Green shoots should be showing. Keep weeds down — these crops hate competition.
14–21 days after “Look for Shoots” · Mid April – late April
Earth Up
When shoots are 20 cm tall, draw soil up around them into a ridge. Repeat after 2–3 weeks. Protect shoots with fleece if frost is forecast.
30–45 days after “Earth Up” · Mid May – late May
Water as Tubers Form
Water well once flowers appear — tubers are swelling underground.
95–120 days after “Plant Seed potatoes” · Late June – mid July
Harvest
Lift carefully with a fork when the flowers open or the leaves start to yellow.
7–21 days after “Harvest” · Late June – mid July
Dry and Store
Dry for a few hours, then store in paper sacks somewhere dark and cool.