Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: tali on January 21, 2007, 19:25
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i'm only doing a few varieties of tato's this year which are the best bakers?????
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check out the tattie debate on grow your own tali :lol :lol:
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http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=1739&highlight=debate here
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dont you mean "THE GREAT TATTIE DEBATE" :D
whats winning anyhow ?
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dunno mate we really aught to decide dont ya think lol i only got it started to cause a riot lol
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can i decide ?
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sure you can ,, you can get the bashings then when it all goes .. " spud " shaped lolo
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ok here we go AGAIN
early=ulstercheiftan
maincrop=desiree (mash,chips,and roasties)
roastie=king edward
will leave the baker to someone else
pink fir get better the longer they are stored.when i 1st dug them back in september they tasted very earthy but now they are realy nice,done some chips with them the other day just washed them and they were fab :wink:
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ok i wil nominate the picasso for the baker i love em when they big .. and now that shaun has set out the others ,please addres any complaints to the following address....
shaun shortlegs
2 n a bit the little hump on the hill
dwarf mountain
chipping spudster
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but saying that i did buy some "winston" (early)and a bag of "isle of dura"(think thats the name)(maincrop) just to try
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Dont know which is the best baker TALI but SHAUN is right about the best roastie
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woohoooo some one agrees with me cash in the post beensticks :D
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Shaun,i learnt this by mistake last year.I prefer boiled potatoes and was told to try King Edward,however they disintegrate during boiling,but roast beautifully
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dont boil spuds . pressure cook em totally divine taste .. and dont blooming peel em :)
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kids dont like skin in there mash come to think of it i dont :)
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but have you noticed how great the taste is ... putthem in a blender n blitz em ... yumyum i just mashes em with a half pat butter n splash mustard and they all dissapear fast , i had to order a galley cook to do my mash with the peel onboard ship oh the priveledges of rank lolo
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what ship would that be uncle albert :wink:
not much input on the countrys favourite veg though shame on you all :D
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considering i served on 17 of them from little uns to flat tops the orders was no different lol ..and my snorkers always had to be split open ,had a very disgusting experiance with them uncooked in the centre
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what are snorkers ?
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Sausages, Shaun. Navy Slang..my grandad was in Navy and that's what he called 'em.
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oh sorry , sausages snorkers= snorkel? = sasages
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ohhh bare mickeys why didnt you say :D
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OH doesn't like his mash with bits of skin either, but I do sometimes leave the skin on when doing chips. I know we shouldn't eat chips, but I still like them on Fridays with me bit of fish. The smell is lovely, just like baked spuds!
I did King Edwards the year before last and they broke up everytime I tried to boil them, and when I tried just steaming them too. Don't have a pressure cooker anymore!!!!!
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I`m going with aaran pilot-first early new pots
rocket-first early,new pots
picasso-early main crop,gen purpose/bakers(waxey)
rooster-early main crop,gen purpose/baker(floury flesh)
charlotte-second early,salad
kestrel-second early,gen purpose
pink fir apple-late maincrop,waxey late salads that keep well past Christmas and are my favourites.
Few harlequin that are last years and have nice,strong buds so I will try them in pots in greenhouse.
We usually grow toomany salads so I`m trying to spread them this year.We are just eating the last of the sarpos and juliette salads now.
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When i'm ordering my seed potatoes i always check whether they make good chips, boiling etc....with D T Brown there's usually a little chart telling you what they are good for so you know. King Edwards are great bakers.
I'm growing this season....
Lady Christyl
Vanessa
Swift
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rooster-early main crop,gen purpose/baker(floury flesh)
never grew it but the relations over in ireland swear by it another one they like is golden wonder
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considering i served on 17 of them from little uns to flat tops the orders was no different lol ..and my snorkers always had to be split open ,had a very disgusting experiance with them uncooked in the centre
flat tops are surf boards!!!! arnt they
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I like floury pots thoughyou have to be careful boiling.I like to try small amounts of a varirty and soon the favs willbe set and others that have grown these say good things.
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flat tops are surf boards!!!! arnt they
i thought it was hair style
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I like floury pots thoughyou have to be careful boiling.I like to try small amounts of a varirty and soon the favs willbe set and others that have grown these say good things.
just remember to lable them annie and dont do like i do have a guess when you dig em up :oops:
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dont lafff but i had a exchange on a yankke flat top uss tarawa this was one amphib flat top that really was surfing . we had to go through a typhoon in the nth mallca strait . up north from singapore , and wehad 160 mph winds up us butts cos we couldnt manage the seas coming over the ramp.. we realy was surfing some of they blooming waves lolo 90 ft seas and very angry lol
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I now draw little pictures or where they are as Izzy can be v helpful finding labels when she knows I need them!Pots in the greenhouse are a different matter however careful I am all goes astray come potting on time!