Cara Seed Potatoes
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Cara Seed Potatoes

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A very high-yielding maincrop with distinctive white-and-pink skin, floury white flesh, good drought tolerance and useful storage quality.

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Description

Cara is a familiar high-yielding maincrop that produces large, rounded to oval tubers with creamy-white skin and characteristic pink splashes around the eyes. The white flesh cooks soft and floury, making Cara particularly useful for baking, roasting, mash and chips.

It is a vigorous, dependable garden variety with good drought tolerance and useful resistance to a number of common potato problems, although no potato should be treated as immune to blight. Cara also stores well once properly matured and cured, which makes it a good choice where the aim is a substantial crop for autumn and winter use.

Why grow Cara?

  • Maturity: Maincrop
  • Cooking type: Slightly Floury
  • Texture: Firm to moderately floury; versatile
  • Best for: Baking, Boiling, Chipping, Mashing, Roasting
  • Skin: White with pink eyes
  • Flesh: White
  • Tuber shape: Round to oval

Growing note: Give Cara enough room to develop its typically large crop. Maintain moisture during tuber bulking and allow the skins to set before lifting potatoes intended for storage.

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Maturity

Cooking Type

Skin colour

White with pink eyes
Flesh colour

White
Tuber shape

Round to oval
Texture

Firm to moderately floury; 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: Give Cara enough room to develop its typically large crop. Maintain moisture during tuber bulking and allow the skins to set before lifting potatoes intended for storage.

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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