[allotment-bill]

hi have any of you grown these new potato PURPLE MAJESTY
they taste good and look so good on a plate

[Trillium]

I haven't grown that particular variety, but I have grown many other varieties of blue potatoes. To me, they taste just like any 'white' potato, but for the uninitiated, the blue colour can be a bit surprising or off-putting. It also looses some of the colour intensity when boiled and looks more grayish than anything.

[mumofstig]

or DD.s

Highland Burgundy Red - grown as a novelty spud - an impulse buy. Wasn't expecting an awful lot, so I wasn't let down. Half a dozen small to medium size spuds per root. Looking forward to pink mashed spuds!

So here they are, including one naked:



and when cooked:

[Kleftiwallah]

Grew Salad Blue for a number of years,  sprogs thought it was ACE / WIKKID (whatever that means)    Cheers,    Tony.

[sunshineband]

Have grown congo black and got  agood crop but tbh they tasted like any other spud, and not as good as some.

Made nice crisps but mash was grey 

Not going to grow them again- the pink ones looked good though 

[BabbyAnn]

I haven't grown that particular variety, but I have grown many other varieties of blue potatoes. To me, they taste just like any 'white' potato, but for the uninitiated, the blue colour can be a bit surprising or off-putting. It also looses some of the colour intensity when boiled and looks more grayish than anything.

Yes, I grew Blue Salad this year to see what they would be like - they turned out to be a nice tasty potato but the colour was seriously off-putting. 

[shokkyy]

Yes, I know what you mean. It bothered me to even grow Red Duke of York, because the skin is kind of important on new spuds and red skin just isn't right somehow.

[vegypete]

hi ya i used to visit some freinds in norfolk, they gave me some potatoes they said they were norfolk blue"s not sure if that was there proper name...........pete

[allotment-bill]

hi we had theses mashed bright purple then left some to go cold the next day turned bright blue my grand son thought they great

[mumofstig]

It's great when the little ones are impressed   

[Trillium]

Tried purple spuds on my sons and they wouldn't have anything to do with them. Sent some purple spuds to school with them for a class soup meal they were making, and all the kids picked out the purple spuds and tossed them 

They're fun and interesting but few adults are brave enough to actually eat them