Picasso Seed Potatoes – A Heavy Cropper That Keeps Until Spring
Picasso is bred from Cara and shares its habit of producing an enormous crop of uniform, round to oval tubers. It is the best-looking potato in the range — smooth cream skin marked with distinct pink eyes — and the white flesh is waxy rather than floury, holding together when boiled and mashing to a firm, dense texture. It resists common scab well, which keeps the skins clean on lighter soils, and it stores as long as anything we sell.
Key Features:
- Very Heavy Yield: Bred from Cara and crops accordingly.
- Distinctive Appearance: Smooth cream skin with prominent pink eyes.
- Scab Resistant: Good resistance to common scab, so the skins stay clean.
- Excellent Keeper: Stores through the winter and into spring.
Planting and Growing:
- Planting Time: Plant between April and May when the soil temperature reaches 8°C.
- Sowing Depth: Plant 15cm deep, with 40cm between tubers and 75cm between rows.
- Growing Tips: Give it space; the crop is large. Earth up thoroughly to keep the tubers from greening.
Harvesting:
- Harvest Time: Lift from September through October, around 18-20 weeks after planting. Leave the tubers two weeks after the haulm dies back before lifting for store.
Culinary Uses:
- Boiling: Waxy flesh that holds its shape.
- Mash: Mashes to a firm, dense texture.
- Baking: One of the better waxy varieties for baking.
Why Choose Picasso Seed Potatoes?
Picasso is the maincrop to grow if you want the sack still full in March. A very large crop of clean, good-looking tubers that keep exceptionally well, from a variety that asks for nothing unusual.
