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Potato
Maris Piper
Maris Piper is the most widely grown maincrop potato in the UK. High-yielding with floury, cream-coloured flesh and good flavour. Excellent for chipping, baking, and mashing. Stores well through winter, making it well suited to self-sufficiency growing.
Key facts
- Growth habit
- maincrop
- Produce type
- floury
- Support
- none
- Sun
- full sun
- Height
- 60-80 cm
- Spacing
- 37 cm between tubers, 75 cm between rows
- Days to harvest
- 110–120 days
- Avg. yield
- 800 g - 1.5 kg per plant
- Watering
- medium
- Frost sensitivity
- medium
For all potato issues and threats, see the Potato page.