New Potatoes

n.b83 · « **on:** January 18, 2009, 20:54 »

This may be a silly question but

Are new potatoes the same as normal potatoes but picked earlyer?

richyrich7 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2009, 21:06 »

They are just a quicker developing spud thats all, if you leave them for longer than your supposed to, you'll get bigger spuds but whether their skins will be hard enough to store is possibly another matter.

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2009, 21:41 »

There is a really good potato site called the tatabase that will give you all the qualaties of each potato

http://www.dundrynurseries.co.uk/plist.asp

First earlies are dug when young too but if left to mature they become less waxy and more floury.

Iain@JBA · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2009, 22:20 »

I would say new potatoes are ones that are harvested and delivered to shops straight away without having to store them to give you that new potato taste compared to seed that was harvested last year and stored over winter then packed.

Kagganz · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2009, 06:50 »

Thats a good site Aunt Sally,

Thanks xx

DD. · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2009, 07:01 »

Just one thing about "Taterbase".

I'm sure some techie person will tell us why, but the links to individual spuds won't open in "Firefox".

Yabba · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2009, 07:47 »

It's because it uses invalid coding for the links so FF ignores them

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DD. · « **Reply #7 on:** January 19, 2009, 08:27 »

Thank you techie person!

Yabba · « **Reply #8 on:** January 19, 2009, 08:32 »

I wish I knew as much about growing as I do about coding

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DD. · « **Reply #9 on:** January 19, 2009, 08:40 »

I wish I knew anything about coding!

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