Anyone tried Marfona spuds?

In all honesty I was never really aware of this variety until I bought a sack of them (for eating) produced by a local farm. They are fantastic spuds. Strangely they don't seem to be listed as good for mash, but they make the best mashed spuds I've ever tasted, really creamy, buttery taste. They also make excellent roasties. There's a wide range of sizes in the sack, but some of them are bigger spuds than I've ever seen before, could feed four people from a single spud.

Has anyone tried growing these? They're listed as second earlies so I was thinking of giving them a try. I'm obviously not going to be getting any monsters because I was going to grow them in containers, but is there any reason why they're not suitable for non-commercial growing?

I grew them last year and they were great 

JBA in Annan have them and so does Dundry (see links below) if you live down that way. Must admit I haven't tried them before. I have already ordered my seed potatoes (duke of York and Cara) but will have a look at these next year.
JBA - http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/
Dundry - http://www.dundrynurseries.co.uk/plist.asp

i dont grow these because as you say alot of farmers grow them so im thinking why not try a different variety?

I grew them down on the lotty a couple of years back & they were riddled with slug holes & very small -all the other varieties did well so I haven't done them again.

Blimey! Some of the spuds in my sack are almost as big as a person's head, and I'm not exaggerating. They're the biggest I've ever seen.

I have grown them for three years on my organic plot and have had great yields.  Last year was the best - huge baking sized potatoes.  I bought some more for this year from T & M.

Regards

Aubergine

I have been growing Marfona for the last 5 years.  We love them.  I start digging up when they are an average size and they taste of lovely salad potatoes....the later ones i dig up are bigger but i use them for baking, boiling, roasting, mashing..they are very versitile.

I don't have a big problem with slugs as another person said they do either