Home Guard Potato: Growing Tips

Key facts

Seed company

Dept For Agric And Rural Development

Listed for

United Kingdom

Overview

Home Guard is an early potato of Scottish origin, grown mostly in Ireland. Tubers are oval with white to cream flesh, which may darken after cooking. Yields are moderate to low, and it can suffer from blight, powdery scab and potato cyst nematode, so rotate carefully and lift early.

Home Guard traits

• Early variety with oval tubers
• Cream to white flesh, may darken once cooked
• Moderate to low yields
• Prone to blight, powdery scab and cyst nematode

Good for

• Early new potatoes
• Boiling

Home Guard FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every potato variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Potato growing guide
• Seed Potatoes: Chitting, Cutting and Drying Before Planting
• When and How to Plant Potatoes: Depth, Spacing and Soil
• Earthing Up Potatoes and How Many Shoots to Keep
• Potato Growing Calendar: Spring and Late Summer Crops
• Potato Problems: Blight, Scab and Green Potatoes
• When to Harvest Potatoes and How to Store Them
• All 20 potato varieties

Source

Source: APHA (Animal and Plant Health Agency)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.