carolus
carolus

Organic Carolus Seed Potatoes

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Certified organic Carolus: an early-maincrop, high-dry-matter potato with attractive red eye markings, floury yellow flesh and very strong late-blight resilience in foliage and tubers.

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Description

Carolus is one of the strongest modern organic garden choices in the range. The oval tubers have yellow skin with distinctive red eyes and yellow flesh, while dry matter is high enough to give a floury cooking type suited to mash, roasting and baking.

Agrico BioSelect identifies Carolus as an early maincrop Next Generation variety with strong resilience to late blight in both foliage and tubers. That combination of eating quality and disease resilience is the reason it performs well in organic and lower-input systems. It is a multipurpose variety rather than a firm salad potato.

Why grow Carolus?

  • Maturity: Early Maincrop
  • Cooking type: Floury
  • Texture: Dry, floury and high dry matter
  • Best for: Baking, Chipping, Mashing, Roasting
  • Skin: Yellow with red eyes
  • Flesh: Yellow
  • Tuber shape: Oval

Growing note: Plant once soils have warmed and keep nutrition and moisture reasonably even. Strong disease resilience reduces risk but does not remove the need for crop rotation and normal blight awareness.

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Maturity

Cooking Type

Skin colour

Yellow with red eyes
Flesh colour

Yellow
Tuber shape

Oval
Texture

Dry, floury and high dry matter

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: Plant once soils have warmed and keep nutrition and moisture reasonably even. Strong disease resilience reduces risk but does not remove the need for crop rotation and normal blight awareness.

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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