Just to give you some idea of the varietes available
Seems a fantastic choice and reasonable prices.
We’re back, with more varieties of potatoes, onions, shallots and garlic. Come on the day, or pre-order before 10
December to save money and ensure you get what you want (last year we ran out early).
Potatoes: 12p/tuber
Pre-order price: 10p/tuber
First Earlies
Casablanca: floury, all-purpose white.
Epicure: known for their flavour.
Int’l Kidney: same variety as Jersey Royals.
Lord Rosebery: ‘late’ first early, red skin, some
blight resistance.
Pentland Javelin: heavy cropping, waxy salad
potato.
Red Duke of York: red skin, yellow flesh, good for
chipping or mash.
Ulster Sceptre: also known as ‘Cheshire’ and
‘Ormskirk’.
Winston: high-yielding, smooth, white, creamy.
Witchill: very early, high-yielding salad potato.
Vanessa: red skin, yellow flesh, drought resistant
Dutch variety.
Second Earlies
Bonnie: even-sized red-splashed skin, good
baker.
Charlotte; delicious, blight resistant, popular salad
potato.
Doon Pearl: creamy flesh, good for salads.
Gladstone: floury, multipurpose, disease resistant.
Heather: purple-skinned, multipurpose.
Kestrel: blue eyes, slug resistant.
Nadine: excellent masher.
Nicola: waxy salad variety with some disease
resistance.
Pixie: pink-eyed salad, scab resistant.
Salad Blue: blue flesh, but not really a salad
potato.
Saxon: high-yielding, firm yellow flesh with good
taste.
Stroma:red skin, yellow flesh, tasty bakers.
Wilja: good cropper, waxy and firm.
Maincrops
Argos: high-yield, all-purpose, good in hot
climates.
Blue Belle: good-looking, waxy, high-yield.
Cara: very robust, pink eyes, good baker.
Celine: red skin, disease resistant, tasty.
Dark Red Norland: creamy tasting, high-yield.
Desiree: red, waxy, versatile: boil, bake or chip.
Harlequin: a cross between Pink Fir and
Charlotte.
Highland Burgundy Red: red skin and flesh,
sweet flavour.
King Edward: pink-eyed all-rounder, slug
resistant.
Majestic: consistent cropper in all soil types, good
storage, floury.
Maris Piper: the classic chip potato.
Markies: like Maris Piper but better disease
resistance.
Maxine: red skin, waxy white flesh, heavy cropper.
Orla: popular with organic growers.
Peach Bloom: red and white skin, blight resistant,
good in salads.
Picasso: heavy cropping waxy baker.
Pink Fir: unique flavour, late season salad potato.
Sarpo Mira: red, very resistant to blight.
Toluca: very high disease resistance.
Valor: robust heavy cropper, for boiling or baking.
Onions 50p/100g (sold by weight only:
100g is approx 30 sets; 100g minimum
per variety).
Pre-order price: 40p/100g
Jet Set: vigorous early cropper, good storage.
Piroska Red: mild flavour, good in salads.
Sturon: large, firm, round.
Stuttgarter: yellow, stores well.
Garlic: £1.50/bulb
Pre-order price: £1.20p/bulb
Picardy Wight: distinct pink hue, harvest early
July, keeps to April, suited to colder, wetter
climates.
Solent Wight: 12 or more cloves in a deep, dense
bulb, outstanding flavour.
Shallots: £1.50/100g (sold by weight
only: 100g is approx. 8 sets)
Pre-order price: £1.20p/100g
Eschalote Grise: very close to the wild form from
Northern Afghanistan, used by top French chefs,
harvest June-August..
Terms and Conditions:
1: Varieties are subject to availability. If a whole order
cannot be fulfilled, Transition Chesterfield will refund
only for that portion that cannot be filled.
2: Orders must be picked up from the Transition
Chesterfield Potato Day event, on 28 January, 10am-
2pm; the location will be in Chesterfield town centre.
Alternative pick-up arrangements may be possible;
customers will be advised. Customers should bring
receipt of payment to claim order. If no receipt has been
received within two weeks of placing your order, please
call 01246 239289.
3: Orders not collected within two weeks of the Potato
Day event may be disposed of without refund.
4: All potatoes are sourced from Jamieson Brothers of
Annan. Onions are from Parker’s Wholesale of
Manchester. Shallots and garlic are from The Garlic
Farm of the Isle of Wight. Transition Chesterfield cannot
make any guarantee as to the quality or performance of
any of the products.
5: Sorry, no refunds can be given after 10 December.
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