"Larry Stoter" wrote in message
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Last year, having acquired a much larger garden, we bought a potato
"variety pack" - about 10 different varities. Fascinating to compare how
they developed, resistance to pests, disease, drought, etc, taste and
productivity. A couple of varieties were badly damaged by slugs whereas
others were completely unscathed.

Taste also varied enormously - some simply wonderful and others almost
tasteless.

Unfortunately, names were written on tags with non-indelible marker -
so, we must repeat experiment again this year!
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Yes I've frequently come unstuck with labelling such trials. Another piece
of bad news is that various qualities of spuds are not consistent from year
to year. So much depends on weather, nutrition and other factors that you
need to repeat your trials over many years to see anything like a pattern
emerging. It should go without saying but I'll say it anyway that you need
to try to control as many aspects of culture as you can in a consistent and
repeatable manner otherwise you just end up with good years/bad years - good
spuds/bad spuds for no reason you can put your finger on. That's about where
I'm at now.

Rod