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Picture and Description of Charlotte Potato Seed and its Cooking Qualities

View our Charlotte potato seed - texture and disease resistance tables - for this seed variety... see below.

This potato seed produces potatoes that have a pale yellow flesh. A good salad/boiling spud with excellent flavour. Reliable and high yielding. Blight resistance differs between tuber and foliage - see table.




Potato seed variety: Charlotte

How to Grow Potatoes

Pale yellow skin, yellow flesh. Firm texure.


This is a Second Early variety


Charlotte potato seed produce excellent tubers for:

  • Salad
  • Boiling

Photo used with kind permission of the
British Potato Council



Texure of Potato

Waxy potatoes are firmer and hold their shape. Floury potatoes are softer and break up more easily. The potato varieties mentioned on this web site are suggestions only and there are many more available.


1 is WAXY and 9 is FLOURY

Texture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9





Pest and Disease Resistance

It`s understandable that the humble potato may develop a `persecution complex` as there are numerous pests and diseases that can attack and reduce yields. But only five may prove to be a serious threat. You should have relatively few problems if you purchase certified virus free seed potatoes. It is important though that in knowing how to grow potatoes properly... know your enemy. Some of the more common ailments are indicated below.

The numbers given for pest or disease susceptibility or resistance are to be read as indicators. Factors like soil, crop maturity and skin thickness can affect the outcome of these readings - they are only a guide... don`t get hung up.


1 is Susceptible and 9 is Resistant

Blt 1 LB2 3 4 5 6 TB7 8 9


CS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


PCN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Blt = Blight
LB next to number = Leaf Blight
TB next to number = Tuber Blight

CS = Common Scab

PCN = Potato Cyst Nematode



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