potato 'Carolus'

A maincrop variety that produces a good yield of attractive, uniformly oval tubers. The skin is yellow with small flushes of red and the flesh is light yellow in colour with a slightly floury texture when cooked and an excellent flavour. These potatoes are good for boiling, mashing, baking and roasting and as they have quite a high dry matter, they are also good for home frying. Excellent Potato blight and Potato rot resistance.

Grow in an open, frost-free site with deep, fertile, moisture-retentive soil for high quality and heavy yields. Improve soil by adding organic matter, such as well-rotted manure, in the autumn. Draw earth up around the stems as they emerge, to exclude light and prevent the potatoes from becoming green. While this potato can grow on most soil types it does prefer good irrigation so best results will be achieved if you water well in dry periods. Potatoes can also be grown in large containers or potato gro-bags. See potato cultivation for further advice.

Propagate by chitting tubers or 'seed potatoes'. This is done by standing the tubers 'rose-end' up (the end with the most eyes) in egg boxes or trays in a cool, light place. After two to three weeks the shoots will begin to sprout. Plant out after frosts have passed, from about mid March to mid April.

May be susceptible to cutworms, slugs, wireworms, leaf and bud eelworm, Potato cyst nematodes

Good resistance to Potato blight and Potato rot, but may be susceptible to Potato scab, Potato blackleg and stem canker

potato 'Carolus'

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