Kestrel

My neighbour grew these and they look excellent. I'll be trying em next year.

If I could grow just one spud it would be Desiree

Thought Kestrel were 2nds? Least I grow them as those!

I adore the taste of Ratte and Pink Fir Apple, though neither have done diddly this year. Just not enough water when they were starting to put on leaf.

For quantity and worry-free growing rather than taste, the Sarpo blight-resistant spuds are great. For winter mash (when you put in heaps of butter, milk, seasoning, nutmeg...) the lack of strong taste doesn't matter so much, and the spuds are huge and slug-resistant, as well as being pretty much blight impervious. They roast superbly as well. Just don't buy them direct from T&M - they come out as 40-50p a tuber. They sell them at regional Potato Days for about 20p each!!

moonbells

Like the sound of those MB

oooooooh! I got them (I think)

nope, 'blue edzells' they are, growing in plastic bags.......somewhere i'll go and have a rummage.....

I did Charlotte earlies... bootiful, I do them every year!

Maris Piper... OK but I bit tiddly... think that was more down to lack of rain than the variety though..

And 2 others..... lost the label...

I recommend Ketrels but only in the 2nd early thread. King Eds for me every year. Even if the yield ani't always great, they are the best tasting commonly available maincrop there is. Yield on my Romanos look OK so far but not so inspiring on the taste front.

I have grown Pentland Del for the past 3 years they taste really good and keep well into the new year

Got pink fir apples still in the ground - I'll let you know when I dig 'em up

I take back what I said about the Pink Firs. Dug a sad-looking plant up and got LOADS.



moonbells

Desiree for standard do anything with them potatoes and Cara for bakers. I did a little trial on each rubbing off all but one strong chit on one half of the planting and the other half planted them as they were.

One half is growing away strongly and even got some flowers on the Cara still while the rest are well on the way to dying back. Trouble is I can't remember which way round they were

I haven't dug any yet though so will update later.

Cara have really tall foliage. Mind you Desiree does anorl. You'll have to dig one up to check

Sorry Wards thats not what I meant. I meant I know which variety is which, what I don't know is which rows I rubbed and which I bunged!

Keep up woman

rubbed eh

when should I be lifting....?

I've not lifted my Desirees yet. Just keep getting them as I want them which you can with Desirees apparently

Ta Watson.. erm most of them....

Lottie order again - need three varities of maincrops:

Already put down King Eds cos I always grow em and Desirees on WardsDuck's recommendation. Left with:

Cara (grew em once and they were a slug fest)
Maris Piper
Picasso
Pentland Squire
Pentland Crown
Sante
Valor (grew these this year, alright yield but a bit boring)

Romanos aren't on the list this year

Picasso is the improved version of Cara, less foliage apparently. They are very good spuds but I grew em best in containers of growbag or composted manure/home made compost. Mine came out lovely and clean and you get some huge spuds

Tis between the two Pentlands -
Crown

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Tried and tested general purpose potato. Crown has huge yields, drought resistance and disease resistance. Mild flavour and good texture, suitable for a wide range of uses.

Squire

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Tried and tested classic Pentland maincrop. General purpose but particularly good for frying, baking and mashing.

I've just ordered some 'Picasso'.... Being very daring this year never grown any of them before

Them's good uns Dom. I'm growing em too I think. Not got em yet but they're ordered. I have eaten them before cos my lotty neighbours grew them. He got a whopper and it was the talk of the allotments

He got a whopper and it was the talk of the allotments