Tui Certified Seed Potatoes

Available sizes: 1.5kg & 25kg

Tui Certified Seed Potatoes are available in a wide range of varieties, there is a type to suit every taste and growing preference. Due to New Zealand's mild climate, potatoes can be grown all year – there is a potato for every season.  Potatoes are best grown in the garden but if you are low on space they also do well in containers, large plastic bags, buckets, tyres or patio planters.

Certification is important for seed potatoes as it verifies the potatoes meets strict conditions and disease tolerance standards.  Every bag has been independently inspected and certified to ensure they are true to type and will grow a healthy crop. The seed potatoes are also tested to ensure diseased crops and rogue and bolter seed potatoes are removed.

Benefits

• Many varieties avaliable.
• Crops meet strict disease tolerance standards.
• Independantly inspected to ensure that they are true to type.

Directions for use

After purchasing remove from packaging and place in trays in a dry, well-lit and airy situation until sprouts are approximately 20-40mm long.

Garden planting

1. Avoid planting potatoes in the same place each year or where tomatoes have been planted the previous season.

2. Make furrows in soil.

3. Place seed potatoes in furrow at least 300mm apart (ensuring sprouts are facing upward).

4. Carefully cover with soil to a max depth of 50mm.

5. Continue to mound up soil as shoots grow.

Container planting

1. Layer the first quarter of container with potting mix like Tui Vegetable Mix.

2. Place approximately 3-4 seed potatoes into container (ensuring sprouts are facing upward).

4. Carefully cover with soil to a max depth of 50mm.

5. Continue to mound up soil as shoots grow.