Plant potatoes
Plant potatoes
Would you like to grow your own potatoes?
🥔 Choose from more than 30 varieties of seed potatoes, including organic and pest-resistant varieties!
🥔 Prefer to read a clear step-by-step guide? Then read our full guide « start to seed potato» " .
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Growing your own potatoes? Here's how to choose the perfect potato!
Want to grow your own potatoes, but don't know where to start? At Hermie, we have a huge range, and it can be quite overwhelming. No worries! With our handy picker you will discover step by step which potatoes fit perfectly in your (harvest) basket.
1. Floury or firm: what fits your plate?
Do you like a deliciously creamy mash? Then go for floury potatoes! Prefer crispy fries or perfectly roasted potatoes? Then firm-boiling potatoes are your best choice!
2. When do you want to harvest?
We divide our potatoes into early, mid-early and late varieties.
- Early varieties: Planting: Feb/March | Harvesting: after 80-100 days
- Semi-early varieties: Planting: April | Harvesting: after ±100-120 days
- Late varieties: Planting: May | Harvesting: after ±120-150 days
Early varieties give a quicker harvest, allowing you to quickly enjoy your own chips as well as freeing up extra space in your vegetable garden for new vegetables. So you make the most of your vegetable garden! Moreover, the risk of pests and fungi is lower in (early) spring than in summer.
The harvest of earlier varieties is therefore slightly smaller than that of mid-early or late varieties.
Tip from Marcel: combine seed potatoes with various harvest times so that you can enjoy a fresh potato on your plate all season long!
3. Want everything to be organic?
Do you only opt for organic products? Then you're in the right place with us! We have a wide range of organic seed potatoes.
👉 To the organic seed potatoes
Besides organic toppers, we also have some pest-resistant varieties. These powerhouses are much more resistant to the dreaded potato blight (phytophthora).
👉 Discover our powerhouses
First pre-germinate, then plant!
Have you chosen and ordered your favourite potatoes? Then you must be eager to put them in the ground! But please be patient... Before you can plant, the potted potatoes need to pre-germinate for a few weeks. This way, you give them a head start and enjoy an even better harvest later on!
👉 Tips for pre-germinating your potatoes
Tip from our blog
Here's how to become a potato master yourself!
Are you growing your own peeps for the first time? With our handy potato guide you will go from couch potato to potato master! We advise you on your choice of seed potatoes, give you tips on planting & what the pitfalls are when you grow your own potatoes!
👉 Click here for our tips & tricks!
