Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Potato & Tomato Popularity Polls => Topic started by: arugula on October 09, 2010, 19:07
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Based on your growing results and combining the factors of flavour, yield and disease resistance, what in your opinion is the best first early potato to grow - choose up to 3 varieties and help everyone choose what to grow next year.
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As I've said to Argyllie in a PM, (we've colluded on this), this will be a guide, what works for one is not guaranteed to work in someone else's soil.
Bear in mind that one person may have hit on the best spud in the world. That spud will still only get one vote.
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I only used one vote cos I've grown one good'un and stuck with it :)
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Its all useful info. though. :)
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I grew Epicure, Dunluce and Vales Emerald this year but the Epicure is the only one I'll grow again because the flavour was fantastic and yields good. In the past I've grown Rocket and Swift which are certainly early but I found the flavour disappointing, likewise Duke of York.
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My "other" vote is Sharpes Express- grew them last year in patio planters and loved them! Good yield, lovely flavour. Sorry i didn't grow them this year, as my L.Rosebery's- while the yield and flavour was good- they looked a bit scaly skinned for some reason
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That's useful Spartacat, I was wondering about Sharpe's Express as a "new". I'm going for the wonderful Lady Christl as an early anyway.
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Gotta be Lady C.... Rockets are quick but aren't a great flavour, Swift and Mimi never got big enough thoughtey taste OK, A friend of mine left some Lady C in and they got proper big adn they're a fabulous baker.....
chrisc
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My Other is also Sharpes Express which were fantastic this year - my best spud ever
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I'll pass on the arran pilot (no flavour in this soil) and the epicure (very low yield). But sharpes express was very good when I had a had a couple of samples in ... err ... year before last. (Doesnt time fly when you are having fun! :blush:)
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With news its got to be flavour flavour flavour so i voted Home Guard.
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my first early this year was a very tasty Pentland Javelin ::)
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Mine is Foremost as recomened bye another plot holder, Great taste and so versatile.
This is the only First early i've ever grown. so i could be missing out but why change if you have something you like . :)
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Did charlotte and pent jav.
Charlotte fantastic, pent jav very average. Taste wise charlotte is on another planet to pj.
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Charlotte is a second early.
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PJs were beautiful, good yield and quite big as well in for next year. Vales emerald picture perfect golfball sized,best tasting potatoes, "ridiculas/next to nothing" yield not in for next year.
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Dunluce, Epicure and Sharpe's Express are my chosen 3 from a dozen or so varieties that I have grown over the last few years. I am hoping to give Casablanca a go next year, sounds good !
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Thanks for your input spot! Its all useful. Perhaps you'd like to introduce yourself in the Welcome section too..
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Sharpes Express getting a lot of love in here! :-) Now I'm sure I'm gonna grow them again next year, as it wasn't just me who had good results.
Since its a cold wintery day here I've been spending the time wisely, looking through seed suppliers and planning and plotting for next year!! :D (its never too early... i'll have changed my mind six times before i get around to ordering! :D
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I grew Premiere this year so I've ticked 'others'.
I had almost given up on growing spuds because of slug damage. As a last resort I tried these and got a good crop. I'd never heard of them before but they grew well and had minimal slug damage even tho some were left in the ground quite late. They didn't have the new potato taste after the first 2-3 weeks of digging them but the ones left in the ground went on swelling and they made lovely mash, roasters and bakers. They did have a small amount of scab but nothing to worry about.
I thought they were excellent and will grow double the amount next year :)
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Thanks to all who have taken part. :) We'll close the voting tomorrow as you should all have harvested by now (apart from Christmas tatties).
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Well done Argyllie! :)
Glad to see Lady Chrystl look as if they have been pipped at the post; might make it just that little bit easier for me to buy them in a few months time! ;)
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Thanks JayG! And yes I agree with you about the shopping! ;)
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Ah PJs came first............a class spud, and mine were 10 in a pack from the poundshop :)
You can't get better value than that ;)
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Its not quite finished yet........ :)
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I'll wait with bated breath then :D
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There's plenty of us LC fans out here you know.... :D :D :D
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Pentland Javelin is most popular, followed by Lady Christl. :D
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Well in every one of the potato polls the old varieties have came up tops. Is that because more people grow the older varieties and haven't tried the newer ones?
I can feel another poll coming on :D
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ill wager the pentland javelin voters have never tasted lady christl.... ;)
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I couldn't comment RW! ;) :happy: I'm not biased... :)
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much!..........so try to convert me........what kind of spuds are they..PJs grow quite waxy here at least, which I like :)
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Well, I can't give a comparison against PJ as I haven't grown them, but I just couldn't get over how amazing the LC flavour was. :)
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ok but are they waxy, floury or what :)
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I would say that LC are quite (but not very) waxy when young with a new potato flavour reminiscent of how Jersey Royals are supposed to taste (but don't always seem to these days.)
Seem to be less waxy and less tasty as they age but I think that's probably true of most FE's.
(Got a funny feeling there isn't going to be much agreement on this subject, but then again I'm someone who doesn't think that the all-conquering Charlotte are that great!) :unsure:
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Well I think that puts it very well JayG. :) Ours didn't last long enough to get less waxy or less tasty.
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If I can get a small bag of LC i will trial them alongside my PJs ......the only thing to do :D
Jay, on my soil Charlottes are wonderful........but I suppose the soil you're growing them in does make a difference ;)
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This year our Charlotte were harvested two weeks before the LC. The Charlotte were unimpressive in texture*, cooking, flavour and the LC were good in all those aspects.
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* There were reports all summer on AVG of different potatoes not cooking well.
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If I can get a small bag of LC i will trial them alongside my PJs ......the only thing to do :D
Jay, on my soil Charlottes are wonderful........but I suppose the soil you're growing them in does make a difference ;)
Millions of people can't be wrong ( ::)) so the soil must make a difference, although having grown Charlottes the main reason I went for LC was their higher resistance to eelworm (I still seem to be the only person in the UK with this problem!) :wacko:
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:mad:Our best has been the old favourite Sharpes Express it has been good for our plot
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I'm going to lock last years topic now, if you really feel you need to add something then ask a mod to re-open it ;)