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Old 21-01-2007, 10:16 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default favourite seed potato

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Gill Matthews Try the writes:
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| (I'm not too struck with boiled and rarely cook them and never make chips)

While I agree that most potatoes are not good boiled, and supermarket
whites are ghastly, some potatoes are good boiled. Always in their
skins, of course, even for mashing :-)

Belle de Fontenay, Charlotte, Ratte, Pink Fir Apple etc. are good,
especially when small (as the first and last always are). Bute Blues
and some of the other heritage, thick-skinned maincrops (including
small King Edwards) are, too, in a much chewier way.

But I find that potatoes above the size of a lime are rather tasteless
boiled.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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