Maris Peer

Description
We mainly use the Maris Peer variety for their small-medium tubers that are waxy, very tasty and produce great crops. They have firm yellowy-white flesh which does not change in colour or disintegrate while cooking. They also produce beautiful purple slightly scented flowers.

Harvest
When the foliage starts to turn yellow and die back.

Growing Instructions
Half fill a container, pot or tyre etc with compost, position the potato in the centre. As it grows carefully keep adding compost but do not cover the growing tip, leave roughly 15cm of foliage. If you have a few spare tyres you could put one on top when the potato has out grown the first one and then start to back fill with soil, remembering not to cover the growing tips, and repeat until you have 4 tyres full. You must protect them when there's a frost. Keep well watered until established and in dry weather. To grow in the ground, plant 30cm apart in rows. As the plant grows, you can start to mound up the soil around the stem remembering to leave the growing tips out. This is called earthing up, and you can keep on doing this until the plant stops growing.


Tip
Leave the potatoes within the compost until you are ready to use them.