Potatoes
Jamieson Brothers Annan is a leading supplier and grower of potatoes. We supply planting potatoes and growing potatoes to the UK. Now you can buy potatoes direct from us the grower and grow your own potatoes.
Why are JBA Scottish seed potatoes the BEST potatoes to purchase for your garden?
- The Beechgrove Garden is Scotlands No1 gardening programme and they will be using our seed potatoes for their shows this year.
- Gardeners World will also be using our seed potatoes this year so you can be assured that our seed is top quality.
- Our seed potatoes are now recommended by Chelsea flower show winner of 10 gold medals Mr Medwyn Williams.
We only supply the very best potatoes and are very selective with the varieties of potato that we stock ensuring that the customer gets the widest choice of the best potatoes that are for sale on the market today.
Buy seed potatoes now as they can be planted from mid March onwards and can be planted practically all year round when used with our Grower Bag system as they can be moved in and out of warm frost free areas with ease. Growing potatoes 365 days of the year is now a reality.
QUICK GUIDE TO POTATOES:
Potatoes suited for making chips
Potatoes suited for boiling
Potatoes suited for roasting
Potatoes suited for salads
Potatoes suited for baking
Potatoes suited for mashing
Creamy tasting potatoes
Waxy type potatoes
Dry and mealy potatoes
Floury tasting potatoes
Slug resistant potatoes
Blight resistant potatoes
Scab resistant potatoes
PCN resistant potatoes
We are sold out on many varieties now so be quick and get yours ordered before they all go. Sign up to our special offer as we will be offering our registered members first chance of any new stock we have, and first chance to order potatoes to plant for Christmas harvesting. It takes less than 20 seconds to register.
- Visit the Jamieson Brothers Potato Blog and keep up to date with the seasonal news.
Brand new on the market is this handy blight testing kit. Brought to you first by Jamieson Brothers.
These varieties are now available to buy online
- First Earlies: Arran Pilot, Pentland Javelin, Sharpes Express, Duke of York, Rocket and Red Duke of York.
- Second Earlies: Maris Peer, Wilja, Nadine, Charlotte and Nicola.
- Maincrop: Pentland Crown, Maris Piper, Desiree, King Edward and Pink Fir Apple.
The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes are the world's fourth largest food crop, following rice, wheat, and maize.
Wild potato species occur from the United States to Uruguay and Chile. Genetic testing of the wide variety of cultivars and wild species suggest that the potato has a single origin in the area of southern Peru, from a species in the Solanum brevicaule complex. However, although Peru is essentially the birthplace of the potato, today over 99% of all cultivated potatoes worldwide are descendants of a subspecies indigenous to south-central Chile. Based on historical records, local agriculturalists, and DNA analyses, the most widely cultivated variety worldwide, Solanum tuberosum tuberosum, is believed to be indigenous to Chiloé Archipelago where it was cultivated as long as 10,000 years ago.
The potato was introduced to Europe in 1536, and subsequently by European mariners to territories and ports throughout the world. Thousands of varieties persist in the Andes, where over 100 varieties might be found in a single valley, and a dozen or more might be maintained by a single agricultural household. Once established in Europe, the potato soon became an important food staple and field crop. But lack of genetic diversity, due to the fact that very few varieties were initially introduced, left the crop vulnerable to disease. In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.
The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the twenty-first century would include about 33 kilograms (or 73 lbs.) of potato. However, the local importance of potato is extremely variable and rapidly changing. The potato remains an essential crop in Europe (especially eastern and central Europe), where per capita production is still the highest in the world, but the most rapid expansion of potato over the past few decades has occurred in southern and eastern Asia. China is now the world's largest potato producing country, and nearly a third of the world's potatoes are harvested in China and India. More generally, the geographic shift of potato production has been away from wealthier countries toward lower-income areas of the world.
Flowers of a potato plant
Potato plants are herbaceous perennials that grow about 60 cm high, depending on variety, the culms dying back after flowering. They bear white, pink, red, blue or purple flowers with yellow stamens resembling those of other Solanaceous species such as tomato and aubergine. The tubers of varieties with white flowers generally have white skins, while those of varieties with colored flowers tend to have pinkish skins. Potatoes are cross-pollinated mostly by insects, including bumblebees that carry pollen from other potato plants, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs as well. Tubers form in response to decreasing day length, although this tendency has been minimized in commercial varieties.[14]
Potato plants
After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing up to 300 true seeds. Potato fruit contains large amounts of the toxic alkaloid solanine, and is therefore unsuitable for consumption.
All new potato varieties are grown from seeds, also called "true seed" or "botanical seed" to distinguish it from seed tubers. By finely chopping the fruit and soaking it in water, the seeds will separate from the flesh by sinking to the bottom after about a day (the remnants of the fruit will float). Any potato variety can also be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers, cut to include at least one or two eyes, or also by cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of healthy seed tubers. Some commercial potato varieties do not produce seeds at all (they bear imperfect flowers) and are propagated only from tuber pieces. Confusingly, these tubers or tuber pieces are called "seed potatoes".
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