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What are your favourite seed potatoes? I am usually very successful with
Accent and pink fir apple, but I'd love to hear about your favourites. Sally |
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sally H wrote: What are your favourite seed potatoes? I am usually very successful with Accent and pink fir apple, but I'd love to hear about your favourites. Sally them there fir things are just too fiddly to scrape we like Charlotte |
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In article , "sally H" writes: | | What are your favourite seed potatoes? I am usually very successful with | Accent and pink fir apple, but I'd love to hear about your favourites. | Sally I have had to give up because of spraing, but mine were Belle de Fontenay and Champion. I am going to retry with Belle de Fontenay and Red Duke of York, because first earlies seemed to not suffer too badly from spraing. Charlotte and King Edward were close. Pink Fir Apple is terribly sensitive to blight, which I get badly, but is good. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote ((snip)) I have had to give up because of spraing. Nick, just in case you may not have realised, there has been testing for Spraing resistance. The following FE have good resistance....(out of 10) Accord (7) Arran Pilot (9) Dunrod (7) Home Guard (7) Lady Christi (8) Premiere (8) The following SE or MC show good resistance ... Ceasar (7) Charlotte (8) Fambo (7) Fianna (8) Hermes (8 also good slug resistance) Lady Rosetta (8 ditto) Record (8) Rooster (8) Saturna (7) Saxon (7) Slaney (8) Hope that helps. -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
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In article , "Bob Hobden" writes: | | Nick, just in case you may not have realised, there has been testing for | Spraing resistance. I know, but hadn't seen your list - thanks very much for that! The reason that I gave up is that I am not interested in growing any potato, but wanted specific ones because of their flavour and similar properties. There is no other potato like Champion that I know of, for example. I am retrying with first earlies. If this fails, I may retry with Charlotte, but I don't recognise any of the others as being excellent eating potatoes. I will look further, though. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote after "Bob Hobden"wrote | | Nick, just in case you may not have realised, there has been testing for | Spraing resistance. I know, but hadn't seen your list - thanks very much for that! The reason that I gave up is that I am not interested in growing any potato, but wanted specific ones because of their flavour and similar properties. There is no other potato like Champion that I know of, for example. I am retrying with first earlies. If this fails, I may retry with Charlotte, but I don't recognise any of the others as being excellent eating potatoes. I will look further, though. Of the First Earlies I mentioned ... Accord...creamy distinctive flavour (whatever that means??) Arran Pilot...floury..good flavour, high yield, but needs mild spring and good soil. Home Guard... waxy..best eaten young. Premiere...waxy... good flavour, excellent cooking qualities, blight and scab resistant too. SE & MC. Charlotte (SE)...waxy..good for salads. Fambo (SE)..waxy..good all-round cooking qualities Fianna(MC)..firm..excellent flavour, good cooking qualities and storage. Hermes (MC)..high dry matter..well flavoured..used for crisps, blight resistant. Lady Rosetta (SE)..red..high dry matter..good flavour.. Record (MC)..high dry matter.. great flavour..excellent for baking, chips and crisps. Saturna (EMC)..floury..described as Europe's best frying potato, tasty. Heavy foliage. So it looks like a few might be worth a try to see if you like them, and if they like your soil/conditions. We are going to try something new this year as our Spey got Spraing last year on the new plot but then it does have a resistance of 1. Shame, it's a good spud and quite slug resistant. For MC will probably give Hermes & Record a try together with Romano (which didn't suffer last year). -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
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In article , "Bob Hobden" writes: | | So it looks like a few might be worth a try to see if you like them, and if | they like your soil/conditions. Thanks, but they all seem to be mostly modern mass-production varieties, and I really can't be bothered with them. Yes, there are better and worse, but I don't have enough area to waste on such things. Especially since I love the sort of squashes you can't generally buy .... Champion beat King Edward into a cocked hat for flavour and baking quality, which indicates what I am really looking for. Charlotte is OK for salads and new potatoes, but Belle de Fontenay is a lot better. | We are going to try something new this year as our Spey got Spraing last | year on the new plot but then it does have a resistance of 1. Shame, it's a | good spud and quite slug resistant. I don't have slug problems with potatoes! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Nick Maclaren" wrote ((snip)) I have had to give up because of spraing. Nick, just in case you may not have realised, there has been testing for Spraing resistance. The following FE have good resistance....(out of 10) Accord (7) Arran Pilot (9) Dunrod (7) Home Guard (7) Lady Christi (8) Premiere (8) The following SE or MC show good resistance ... Ceasar (7) Charlotte (8) Fambo (7) Fianna (8) Hermes (8 also good slug resistance) Lady Rosetta (8 ditto) Record (8) Rooster (8) Saturna (7) Saxon (7) Slaney (8) Hope that helps. It would have helped if you had posted this list yeasterday, but I've just been out to buy seed potatoes and none of those you mentioned are in the ones I bought!(:-( Alan |
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"Alan Holmes" wrote after "Bob Hobden" wrote in reply to "Nick Maclaren" wrote ((snip)) I have had to give up because of spraing. Nick, just in case you may not have realised, there has been testing for Spraing resistance. The following FE have good resistance....(out of 10) Accord (7) Arran Pilot (9) Dunrod (7) Home Guard (7) Lady Christi (8) Premiere (8) The following SE or MC show good resistance ... Ceasar (7) Charlotte (8) Fambo (7) Fianna (8) Hermes (8 also good slug resistance) Lady Rosetta (8 ditto) Record (8) Rooster (8) Saturna (7) Saxon (7) Slaney (8) Hope that helps. It would have helped if you had posted this list yeasterday, but I've just been out to buy seed potatoes and none of those you mentioned are in the ones I bought!(:-( You should have downloaded from and studied... http://www.potato.org.uk/department/...vartables.html everything you wanted to know about a great many varieties, but as Nick points out, they are mainly commercially grown ones. -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
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In article , "Bob Hobden" writes: | | You should have downloaded from and studied... | | http://www.potato.org.uk/department/...vartables.html | | everything you wanted to know about a great many varieties, but as Nick | points out, they are mainly commercially grown ones. Entirely, I think. It does include some of the higher quality commercial varieties, like King Edward, but that is as far as it goes. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Hi Group,
Nice to see the potato devotees here, so I would like to take the opportunity to pose a question. Three years ago I managed to get some fabulous potato seed called Minerva, they were a fairly early potato which produced large and tasty spuds. Most of them were harvested before the blight ( and we get a lot of blight here). I am desperately seeking a supply of Minerva seed and no one seems to stock them any more. Please can anyone advise me where to get them or why they are not available. David. "sally H" wrote in message ... What are your favourite seed potatoes? I am usually very successful with Accent and pink fir apple, but I'd love to hear about your favourites. Sally |
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