alouette

Organic Alouette Seed Potatoes

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Certified organic Alouette: a red-skinned early-maincrop with yellow flesh, strong foliage and tuber blight resistance, drought tolerance and excellent fresh-market eating quality.

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Description

Alouette is an Agrico Next Generation variety bred to combine attractive table quality with serious disease resilience. It develops relatively large, regular long-oval tubers with deep red skin, shallow eyes and yellow flesh.

Unlike the very floury Sarpo maincrops, Alouette is a firmer AB cooking type, so it boils and steams well while still being useful roasted, baked or chipped. Agrico records strong late-blight resistance in both foliage and tubers, good drought tolerance and useful resistance to PCN and wart disease. That makes it a particularly strong fit for organic growing.

Why grow Alouette?

  • Maturity: Early Maincrop
  • Cooking type: Slightly Waxy
  • Texture: Fairly firm, creamy and versatile
  • Best for: Baking, Boiling, Chipping, Mashing, Roasting
  • Skin: Deep red
  • Flesh: Yellow
  • Tuber shape: Long oval

Growing note: Rapid early foliage development helps the crop establish quickly. Give it enough moisture during tuber bulking, but its drought tolerance makes it more forgiving than many table varieties.

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Maturity

Cooking Type

Skin colour

Deep red
Flesh colour

Yellow
Tuber shape

Long oval
Texture

Fairly firm, creamy and versatile

Planting & Growing

Chit seed potatoes in a cool, bright, frost-free place if you want to encourage an earlier start. Plant from late March into April once the soil is workable and conditions are suitable.

Plant approximately 10–15cm deep, allowing about 35–40cm between tubers and around 75cm between rows. Earth up developing shoots to keep tubers covered and maintain an even water supply while tubers are forming.

Variety-specific advice: Rapid early foliage development helps the crop establish quickly. Give it enough moisture during tuber bulking, but its drought tolerance makes it more forgiving than many table varieties.

Harvest: Allow a longer season and check tuber development from late summer into autumn.

For detailed advice on chitting, feeding, watering, growing potatoes in bags and containers, harvesting and storage, see our Seed Potato Growing Guides.

Delivery & Seed Info

Dispatch & Delivery

New-season seed potato dispatch normally begins from December/January, with orders sent as varieties become available. Where possible, we will group items from the same order into one delivery.

Quality & Storage

Patch specialises in seed potatoes. Our seed potatoes are carefully stored to maintain quality and visually checked before packing and dispatch.

Need a Larger Quantity?

We stock more than 50 varieties and can supply larger quantities than those shown online. Contact Alex if you require a larger quantity or have a specific requirement.

Growing Advice

Need some help getting started? Visit our Seed Potato Growing Guides for advice on chitting, planting, growing in bags and containers, harvesting and storage.

Problems With Your Delivery?

Please check your order when it arrives and contact us promptly if anything has been damaged in transit.

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