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:


I have started moving over to the more specialist varieties, as the
ordinary ones can be bought. I favour Belle de Fontenay as a first
early, and have built up enough Champion for a serious crop, but
still grow a few Bute Blues and quite a lot of King Edward (our
preferred staple).

I got the Champion and Bute Blues from Tuckers, and am trying Orion
and Witchill this year. They also sell the others.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.