Here at Gordale you can find everything you need to grow your own vegetables. We have one of the largest selections of vegetable plants in the area along with the associated growing media. You'll find everything from peas, beans and cucumbers to potatoes, corgettes and carrots.
Gordale also stocks various grow bags to help you get the best crops and all the fertilisers and organic pesticides to achieve the excellent results.
For more information on our wide range of vegetable plants please ask to speak to Becky, the assistant plant manager.
At Gordale you will find one of the widest selections of potatoes available in any garden-centre. We carry ~60 different varieties. Our knowledgeable staff are always on hand to ask for growing tips and advice. Our potatoes are available as:
Bellow you can see the full list of Potatoes stocked in 2013. Whilst we try to keep all varieties toped up During January and February please ring 0151 336 2116 if you want to check the stock level
| Variety | Crop | Loose/Taster/Carry | Characteristics |
| Bambino | M | T | Uniform tuber shape, good disease and eelworm resistant |
| Belle de Fontenay | M | L | French classic, smooth, firm, waxy texture, ideal for salad and mash |
| Bonnie | S | T | Good general and eel worm resistant, excellent for boiling and baking, |
| British Queen | S | L | RHS Award Winner, rare variety, dry floury texture when boiled |
| Cabaret | M | T | Flavoursome frying potato, high yields bright, bold tubers, white skin, cream flesh |
| Cara Organic | M | T | Good pest and disease resistant |
| Carlingford | S | L T | Very reliable, ealy harvest from containers, good resistace to scab |
| Casablanca | F | L T | Excellent resistance to black leg, white skinned multi purpose |
| Charlotte | S | L | Popular salad variety, good for boiling |
| Charlotte | S | T | Popular salad variety, excellent flavour for salads and good for boiling |
| Desiree | M | L T | The most popular red, dependable, drought resistant, proven good all rounder |
| Duke of York | F | T | Good roasting potato, tasty, old fashioned flavour from yellow flesh |
| Dunluce | F | L | Exclusive to JBA, good for boiling, mashing and chipping, great crops |
| Epicure | F | L | Scotland's favourite garden variety, sought after, best for boiling |
| Estima | S | l | Boils, chips, roasts and bakes, drought resistance and some resistance to slugs |
| Harlequin | M | L T | High yielding, long tubers, delicate waxy texture, creamy flesh |
| Harmony | M | L | Resistance to eelworm, ideal for boiling, white skin and flesh |
| International Kidney | F | L | Harvest early for salads, buttery flavour |
| Juliette | M | T | English Seed, eelworm and scab resistant, long oval tubers, very flavoursome |
| Kerrs Pink | M | L | Good all rounder, round pink skin, suitable for all cooking methods, |
| King Edward | M | T | The finest flavour, old favourite, good for roasting |
| Lady Christl | F | L | Very early garden favourite, good yield, eelworm resistant |
| Majestic | M | L | Old Lincolnshire favourite, large tubers for baking, boiling and chipping |
| Marfona | S | L | Good drought resistance, good for roasting and mash, best for jacket |
| Maris Bard Organic | F | T | Good for boiling, salads and later for chipping |
| Maris Peer | S | L T | Good boiler, round oval shape, good for salads, slug resistant |
| Maris Piper | M | T | The chip shop potato, versatile, high yielder, stores well, eel worm resistant |
| Orla | F | L | Excellent blight resistance, tasty, good for boiling, storing |
| Pentland Dell | M | L | Good general purpose, large tubers for bakers and chips, some slug resistance |
| Pentland Javelin | F | T | Suitable for all soils, eelworm and scab resistant, good for boiling and salads |
| Pentland Squire | M | L | Good for boiling, baking, roasting and chips, good disease resistance |
| Picasso | M | L | High Yielding, good disease and drought resistance, eelworm resistance |
| Pink Fir Apple | M | L T | Late salad variety, unusual nutty flavour from finger like tubers |
| Premiere | F | L T | Very early popular variety, eelworm resistant and reputation for blight resistance |
| Red Duke of York | F | L | Roasting, tasty, yellowish flesh, do not disintegrate on boiling |
| Rocket | F | T | Very early recent introduction, perfect for boiling, salads. Eelworm resistant. |
| Romano | M | L | Less prone to scab, better slug and blight resistant than Desiree |
| Sante | M | L | Good new potato, good all rounder, dry firm texture |
| Sarpo Mira | M | L | The most blight resistant potato, general purpose, floury, high yielding, vigorous |
| Saxon | S | L | Creamy flavour, attractive, high yielding, disease resistant |
| Setanta | M | L | Excellent blight resistance, good all round red with floury taste |
| Sharpes Express | M | T | Distinctive flavour, good for boiling, salads, chipping |
| Stemster | M | L | Bright red skin, yellew flesh, good drought resistance |
| Vales Emerald | F | L | Salad, very high yielding, cream skin and flesh |
| Valor | M | L | High yielding, good disease and drought resistance, double eelworm resistant |
| Vanessa | F | L | Early Desiree, red skin, smooth tubers, tasty, cream flesh |
| Winston | F | L | Earliest baker, high yields, early bulking, eelworm resistant |
| Witchhill | M | T | Vigorius high yielding, early white flesh, good salad potato |
| Yetholm Gypsy | M | T | Red, white and blue skin colour, early main crop, dry creamy flesh |
| Albert Bartlett Range | |||
| Anya | T C | Long knobbly tubers, perfect for salads, reputation for flavour | |
| Osprey | T C | Modern disease resistant general purpose | |
| Rooster | T C | Infamous, red skin, light yellow flesh | |
| Vivaldi | T C | Multi purpose variety with cream flavour. Low Carb variety | |
| Isle of Jura | T | High yielding, versatile, good disease resistance | |
| Russet | T | Famed for French Fries, pale yellow flesh, creamy texture | |
| Purple Majesty | T | Natural deep purple colour inside and out which is retained during colour. | |
| Apache | T | Warm red skin, cream patches, sweet buttery chestnut flavour | |