blight resistant potatoes

 se athlete and mc carolus

athlete is not resistant. got blight the same time as nicola so is not a blight resistant se.the taste is ok but nothing special and the  yield was roughly 50% of the nicola yield !

carolus - grown this for the 2nd year running and no blight as yet. the taste is very good, a creamy potato that gets drier in storage towards Christmas but still tastes good.
fairly waxy and im please with it, the sarpo are far too floury for me and get powdery scab in my soil.

carolus is highly recommended, athlete is a big disapointment

hope this helps 

Carolus is ok on clay but not sandy soil, because of Scab, according to Agrico
http://www.agrico.co.uk/products/varieties/documents/Carolusfactsheet.pdf

T&M sold them this year
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/potatoes/maincrop/potato-carolus/t46520TM

I have grown Athlete ,Carolus ,and Alouette this year all blight free varites and they showed no sign of blight .My other spuds Kestrel ,Peatland Squire ,Valor all when down with blight .Carolus produced the best crop with Alouette a red spud coming second ,I will grow these next year .Athlete was good when dung up as a early spud but not good if left to mature as a late .Carolus showed not much slug damage compared with the others.I dug them up this week and look forward to see how they store .I have two photos attached ,one showing the spuds before lifting the other the crop from  first two roots of Carolus

I have now harvested the Setanta, a very much reduced yield, probably due to the blight, many small pig potatoes but also some very useful one's as well. As regards to blight resistance the foliage I would give a score of perhaps 5 out of 10, however the tubers I would give a score of 10 out of 10, there being no blight effects whatsoever,. The tops were devastated but nothing travelled down to the tubers!

Have finished harvesting the last potatoes this evening!

Grew

Dunluce      Earlies

Rooster       For roasters

Pink FA        Salad

Sante           Maincrop

Have had only four tubers  of Sante affected by blight which I have burnt on a bonfire,nothing on any other varieties dug before now.

The other thing I had especially with the Sante was that I had a lot of abnormally large tubers this year, never had this problem previously, though they are fine when I cut a couple of them in half just to check them out!