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Nick, You seem to have more knowledge on this subject as I have never
heard of most of these Varieties:-) Last year I let some ground to a
local commercial grower and he grew mainly Maris Piper, but also some
Maris Peer. He told me these were a salad type potato. We had friends
round for dinner and I made potato salad with two different dressings,
using Peer, Piper and King Edwards. So we had 6 labelled dishes, all
with young potatoes, by no means fully developed. There was a slight
difference in the texture of the different varieties, but the dressing
was more dominant. The net result was we had 6 potato salads that were
all nice, but none of us could really express a preference. Do I learn
from this that most potatoes are suitable for salads as long as they
are young, or there really specialist varieties? Different story for
later in the season - boiling, chipping, mashing etc.
Jonny
x-no-archive: yes,On 23 Apr 2003 19:52:17 GMT,
(Nick Maclaren) wrote:


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Jon,
Last year at the Southport Flower Show I picked up a booklet from the
T&M stand called The Potato Collection. Therein is quite a bit of info
on salad potato varieties. T&M may still have booklets and as it is only
16 pages it is unlikely to cost an arm and a leg in postage.
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Ron Lowe
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