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Grow your own new potatoes with ‘Rocket’ – nothing beats the taste of freshly harvested and boiled potatoes! Easy to grow and quick to produce 'baby new potatoes', 'Rocket' is particularly well suited to growing in containers and potato bags, so you can grow delicious potatoes on the patio or balcony. ‘Rocket’ is a very early bulking and heavy cropping first early variety, producing almost round, white skinned and whitPlant first early potato crops from the end of February. Prior to planting, 'chit' the seed potatoes by setting them out in a cool, bright position (10C/ 50F) to allow them to sprout.When growing first early potatoes in the ground avoid planting in soil where potatoes have grown for two years in succession to reduce the risk of disease. Prepare the planting area in a sheltered position in full sun on moist well drained soil. Dig in plenty of well-rotted manure. Plant potatoes in rows at a spacing of 30cm (12"). Rows should be set out 60cm (2') apart. Place the seed potatoes into 10cm (4") deep trenches and backfill the soil to refill the trenches. When shoots reach 20cm (8"), mound up soil around the shoots leaving just a few cm showing. Repeat this process after a further 3 weeks.Where space is limited, try growing potatoes in potato bags on the patio. Fill an 8 litre potato bag to just below the top of the bag with good quality compost mixed with some well rotted manure. Carefully plunge a single chitted potato tuber into the compost with the shoots pointing upwards at a depth of 12cm (5") from the soil surface. Place the bags in a sunny position and water regularly to keep the compost moist.Product Specifications:Position: Full sunHeight: Up to 60cm (23.6in) when fully establishedSpread: Up to 60cm (23.6in) when fully establishedSupplied as 2kgDelivered with growing and care instructionsImages shown are for guidance only of the expected results from plants upon maturity. Different growing conditions might vary results.
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