[DD.]

As the spuds come up, undoubtedly members will want to post their results. It may be useful to keep them all in one spot, rather than have numerous threads all over the place.

So please post here. Please keep it brief, (as below) as with any replies, so that we don't end up not seeing the wood for the trees.

For a change, please keep this on topic! I will keep an eye on things and may just be tempted to press the "edit" or "delete" buttons now & then!

My results so far...

Swift (First Early). Average yield, slugs like them
Pentland Javelin (First Early). Very good yield, few slug holes
Charlotte (Second Early). Excellent yield, no slug holes.
Kestrel (Second Early). Excellent yield, some very large spuds. No slug holes

[maverick]

My first year of gardening this year. I grew salad anya potatoes in two large tubs. Good crop (at least I think so) , nice potatoes and I had no problems with them 

[KarooPaul]

Charlotte (First Earlies), small container grown (!), very good crop (14 new potatoes per 14" flower pot), excellent consistency of spud size, no blemishes. Will definitely be growing these in beds next year. (I had the seed potatoes knocking around, nowhere to plant them, so thought what the hell, and put em in some spare pots. Result!)

[foxglove]

Fantastic crop from Colleen and Accent this year.
No slugs at all!
Lovely big Maris pipers too.

[Bombers]

Pentland Javelin (First Early). Very good yield, no slug holes up to 1.6Kg yield after 12 weeks. Comment: An excellent all round potato, served as new, mashed, roasted or surprisingly superb chips!

Charlotte (Second Early). Excellent yield, no slug holes. Massive fan of this spud. Great waxy taste, consistently good performer. First on my list!

Desiree (Main Crop) Early days, as only just dug first one up. Will report later.

[oldwilliam]

Swift - extra early: moderate yield no slug damage

Kestrel - early - good yield, some good sized "baking" tubers, no slug damage

Red Duke of York early - good yield of moderate size, no slug damage

International Kidney (Salad) very heavy yield varying from "salad size" up to very big, one tuber with slug damage! (out of 27kg)

All planted first week of March and taken out from mid June.

[Plottered]

1st earlies Vale Emerald decent yield out of tubs and bags, no blemishes no slug holes. Lovely when steamed.

2nd earlies Charlottes as above good yield in tubs and bags, no blemishes no slugs lovely spuds.

maincrop to follow.

[Sue33]

first early - Arran Pilot - very nice, mashed or roasted
salad - charlotte - much bigger than I was expecting, but tasty although skin peeled away when boiling
maincrop - maris piper - dug one up to have a look, really looking good and delish!

[Spana]

Foremost.  Excellent crop ruined by slugs.

[maxie]

Vanessa (first early) always reliable and a nice boiled new potato.
Ulster sceptre (first early) lovely new potato which seems to last as a new potato longer.Below par crop though.
Charlotte (second early) i grow these every year and they never dissapoint.
Anya(second early)great crop and nice eating boiled or fried.

[Lee G]

Kestrel (2nd Early) - Planted mid April, Excellent yield (6.5lb from the 2 I dug up 3 days ago), almost 20 spuds of a very good size, only 1 with slug damage.

[MoreWhisky]

Good idea DD heres mine again in the new section as i will prob save this thread for ref next jan 



Earlies , Home Guard    when small very very tasty will try somemore next yr.
              Arran Pilots     better crop but not as tasty as Home Guard

Second , Wilja              Wow. Best looking of lot and my favourite!  will defo be doing more of
                                     these.

Mains , Maris                 Good crop but seemt to be scabby. Lovely roasts tho ).

Reds, Diserre                Nice reds but might try a different one next yr.

[mumofstig]

Charlotte                  good yield, lovely spud no slug damage,    2nds dug first
Red Duke of york      poor yield, seemed to slough off a layer when boiled, no slug damage
                                1sts dug third.
Vivaldi                       big yield, great taste and some big enough for jkts, no slug damage
                                 2nds or early maincrop
All planted on 17th March and all gone
Hunter maincrop still in tubs........will add results later

[DD.]

Good idea DD heres mine again in the new section as i will prob save this thread for ref next jan 

That's what I was thinking - easy reference.

[HLS]

Good idea, DD!  Might be useful if people could note soil type as well, maybe?

I'm on clay, and planted Dunluce, Desiree and Anya this year.  Results so far:

Dunluce - bit scabby but no slug holes; average yield; floury, falls apart a bit when boiled but good and crispy when roasted; average taste - not bad but I wouldn't shout about it.

Adding in the other two now I've dug them up:

Desiree - good yield, a bit of scab but not as much as the Dunluce.  Seems to be a good all-round potato, reasonably tasty but didn't knock my socks off.  Main problem seems to be that the few really huge potatoes were miles away from the stems so I put my fork through all of them... 

Anya - really poor yield, and what was there was mostly either rotten or eaten by slugs.  I got about one small usable potato from each seed potato!  The taste seems to be good, though, and they're an interesting shape.  I might give them a go in a compost bag next year but I don't think I'll be growing them in the ground again.