Plant the grandchildren or the potatoes?

Last evening my partners two 3-years-old grandchildren, in an unsupervised moment, ransacked my 3 boxes of seed potatoes that were happily chitting away, and had a potato fight . . . . . . hurling the said seed potatoes all around the room and at each other.
The result is that I now have ONE box of MIXED chitting potatoes.
That box consists of roughly equal numbers of First Early (Pentland Javelin), Second Early (Maris Peer) and Maincrop (Desiree).

There is no way that I can tell the difference between the potatoes.

Does anyone have a clue how I might work out which is which?
Or, is my only alternative to seek out a new supply of seed potatoes?

BTW, I know what to do with the grandchildren . . . . . . . . . but just how deep do you plant 3-year-old boys?

Oh dear, what naughty boys I suspected my 2 used to swap the labels round  can't help on how to tell them apart though

Lol! They will taste good, anyway.

Funnily enough, some agricultural workers at high time of the season would dig in their children...Creche of sorts.

Not at all full proof, but so often the earlier ones have more advanced shoots.

Separate the Desiree (red skin) The PJ and MP are both oval cream potatoes, and maybe the early PJ may have stronger chits. Anyway divide the whites as best you can.
When they flower it will be easy. PJ have white flowers and MP have purple ones.

I have now spent so long looking at my 'heap' of seed potatoes that I've gone cross-eyed and they all look the same.

My opinion is that, without DNA testing, I will never correctly identify the variety of each seed potato.

So, a decision has been made.
Tomorrow I will make a final guess at which is which.
They will all then be planted.

This years crop will be as follows:-
Earlies - - 'Pick 'n' Mix
2nd Earlies - - 'Lucky Dip'
Main Crop - -  Murphy's Melange

I'm not a happy bunny with the ruination of my carefully prepared seed potatoes.
However, I'll get over it . . . . . . . . . . . . (maybe) . . . . . one day in the future.

The grandchildren are still well loved and will be spared from my idea of planting them in the potato patch.
They will be educated by providing labour during the planting and harvesting stages although, as anyone with young children will testify, this will only ensure that each task will take ten times as long as would normally be expected.


Matthew 19:14

It will be a talking point for years to come and you will laugh at it eventually.

You have my sympathy....

I had a similar problem one year with my cats. Since then I have always written the variety on the potato with a sharpie. I'm sure I got that idea from someone on here.