Well matured sawdust stable bedding over heavy clay
Swift - good yield, clean potatoes, no taste. Not on next years list
Red Duke of York - good yield, clean potatoes, the grower likes the taste, the cook doesnt - not growing next year!
Maris Bard - very good yield, clean initially but some scab on later liftings. Superb taste definite for next year
Charlotte - Good yield, some scab excellent taste On next years list
International Kidney - Some blight - tops removed - tubers appear unaffected. Good yield, clean tubers excellent taste will grow again next year.
Romano - Blight - tops removed no tubers lifted yet - planning to leave in ground until Jan / Feb ( did this last year most tubers fine despite being wtaerlogged for weeks)
Cara - one plant lifted (by mistake - funny looking Charlotte I thought) Huge tubers and clean - not tasted yet
PFA, King Edward and Kerrs Pink all growing well and currently blight free
update 17/11/09:
Still got a couple of Int'l Kidney to lift - skins in poor condition but otherwise tubers sound
PFA lifting regularly - tubers sound skins clean, yields huge- only downside quite a lot have green patches because of huge yield
Kerrs Pink: large tubers, superb taste - mice think so too quite a lot nibbled underground
Most King Edwards still in ground, of the few liftyed so far significant slug damage
Romano - still not lifted any
Will have to lift many soon as the space they occupy is planned for fruit cordons, but while it is too wet to lift spuds its also too wet to plant fruit trees.....