Grow and cook your own potatoes fresh from the vegetable patchfirst earlies if planted in autumn would be ready to harvest within 10 12 weeks also has a good all round tolerance to diseases to common scab and blackleg a waxy type potato great for boiling and for saladspentland javelin is considered to be one of the finest first earlies that you can grow produces heavy crops of short oval white skinned potatoes and has a pure white tasty flesh