[Lisa62]

Had some Vivaldis for tea tonight.  Not a massive yield but very tasty and low carb.  Did a side by side taste test with Vivaldi salad potatoes bought in Sainsburys and the home grown ones won the family vote.  Very happy.

[DD.]

I am finding it impossible to vote because it is my first time growing potatoes and I have not been at all impressed by my International Kidney (nothing like true Jersey Royals)  and only slightly more impressed by my Winston  The only one we love and would grow again is the Charlottes and they are not first earlies even though they were ready at the same time!  :blink:

Hence my comment early on in the thread!

[Jackypam]

I lost every last plant to blackleg.  2 years blight followed by this years blackleg.  Think I'll grow something else instead next year. 

[Tom Hill]

With two days to go the placings are for most successful first early :

1.    Rocket
2.    Lady Christl.
3=   Arran Pilot
3=   Pentland Javelin.

[Steveharford]

Just added my vote for Casablanca. Very clean. Tasty. Good germination in a bad year for it. Accent I think are tastier but only about half germinated so that's why they don't get my vote.

[Tom Hill]

Just twelve hours left to register a vote.  I can't believe despite a cold start that only 40 odd people have tried their first earlies.

[Lincolnshire Floyd]

I don't understand what this thread is asking. Should it be called  'Which new potato has grown the best this year in your personal experience?' Or 'Have you tried a new variety of new potato this year and why?' Or 'Are you stuck in a rut and grow the same new potatoes every year and which ones?' Or "Which new potatoes are popular and for what reason?' Or 'What do you class as a new potato?' Or 'Have you lifted a main crop spud yet and if you have is it an early?'  Or "If you have grown more than one early potato variety which has produced the highest yield?' Or "How do you measure the success of a new potato, by taste or by weight?' Or 'What does success mean when growing potatoes?' Or 'Which new potato has had the most successful marketing strategy this year?'

[maxie]

All my first earlies were very poor,swift,vanessa and pentland javelin,all i can think is the cold spring didnt help them.They had plenty of manure in,planted well and then never came through for ages,poor top growth,i knew they were going to be poor before i dug them up.
The secoond earlies charlottes are a total different ball game,good top growth with a lot of stems on each plant,im seriously thinking of just growing these next year.

[Growster...]

Lady Christl - excellent!

Annabelle - fabulous - the best we've ever had, but relatively low yield!

Charlotte still to come.

[lettice]

M arron pilot have been a great crop, all grown in large potato bags and 12 inch tubs, just picked a load more today
My charlotte in bags and tubs still to come, be starting on them mid aug I expect.

[JimB]

I have not bothered to vote, as I have tried almost all of the varieties listed and all with one notable exception are not worth harvesting in my experience of them!

I grow quite a lot as I sell them at two of our local shows in July, whereas they will take anything without looking and pay top notch in the supermarkets, when buying mine they examine and poke and ask all sorts of questions as if I were trying to poison them,before they part with their cash!

I have had a very good crop of medium sized very clean potatoes this season, unlike some other plot holders who have shown me their egg sized crop, of Rocket etc!

Potatoes are a funny crop, what grows well in one soil maybe does not do so well in another!

Cheers!

[rowan57]

I don't understand what this thread is asking. Should it be called  'Which new potato has grown the best this year in your personal experience?' Or 'Have you tried a new variety of new potato this year and why?' Or 'Are you stuck in a rut and grow the same new potatoes every year and which ones?' Or "Which new potatoes are popular and for what reason?' Or 'What do you class as a new potato?' Or 'Have you lifted a main crop spud yet and if you have is it an early?'  Or "If you have grown more than one early potato variety which has produced the highest yield?' Or "How do you measure the success of a new potato, by taste or by weight?' Or 'What does success mean when growing potatoes?' Or 'Which new potato has had the most successful marketing strategy this year?'

You are being pernickety and awkward for the sake of it. Of course it means 'which new pot did best for you this year'. Taking the time to type out such a long diatribe about something you apparently don't understand suggests otherwise.

[JayG]

Please chill out guys - you can always try growing rice or pasta  if spuds don't agree with you for any reason (even Rocket is only a spud, not science!    )

[devonbarmygardener]

My 'Belle de Fontaney' first early new potatoes have been stunning this year - huge yield, really tasty.

My 'Pink Fir Apple' new potatoes (I think are a maincrop) - first 2 bags - got less than I planted and they were tiny?  NO idea what happened there as the next 2 bags of these were chocka with a lovely delicious yield.

2 varieties I love to grow and likely to grow again.

[devonbarmygardener]

Just twelve hours left to register a vote.  I can't believe despite a cold start that only 40 odd people have tried their first earlies.

I've been on and off the 'puter all day while watching the racing and I didn't see this thread until now so too late to vote.
Not that I planted any of the above