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On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:42:25 +0100, Janet Galpin
wrote:

As my potatoes have always fallen prey to blight by early July, this
year I tried the new potato varieties Sarpo Mira and Sarpo Axona which
were developed for blight resistance. I've been enormously impressed.
The plants have been large and vigorous and no signs of blight yet. For
the first time ever, I'm digging up large tubers some weighing about 12
ozs. Hardly any slug damage either.

I wondered whether anyone else had tried these varieties and how they
had had turned out.

Janet G

How have they turned out flavour-wise?


Pam in Bristol

The Sarpo Mira are fine. Having said that, I'm just please to have a
decent crop of maincrop potatoes at all as I'd nearly given up on them.
I've mainly been baking them and they have quite chewy skins which I
don't mind but some might. I don't know whether this might change if I
left them to mature for longer.
They're medium-textured between floury and waxy, I would say. They're
deep red and quite attractive appearance-wise and the tubers tend
towards long and thin.
Janet