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Old 21-02-2006, 08:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Mike Lyle
 
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Default Vivaldi potato variety

Chris wrote:
In article , Janet Baraclough
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Anyone tried growing these?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4689108.stm
They are reckoned to be delicious.


In blind taste comparisons on breakfast TV this am, every taster
picked them out ...as the worst tasting most insipid potato, rather
watery. Big thumbs down.


I bought some and baked them - and they were delicious.


Baking would bring out the best in a potato with a high water content,
which might not be so tasty when boiled. (Not that I ever boil old
potatoes, except for mashing.) Did you try them boiled or mashed?

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Mike.