Grow & Cook Your Own Potatoes Fresh From The Vegetable Patch Second Earlies: If planted in Mid March would be ready to harvest within 12-14 weeks. Culinary uses include boiling, baking & salad. Offers high resistance to Powdery Scab, Gangrene, Damage, Bruising & Skin Spot. Maris Peer is a well-known variety which is an exceedingly good cropper. It will provide you with masses of oval, white tubers with firm, creamy white flesh. Choose this variety for boiling, baling on adding to your salads.