[newbiegrower]

I would like to plant a salad potato or something similar to a jersey royal and a general potato suitable for baking etc can anyone recomend any good ones and when do I plant and do I need to earth them up and if so how do I do that.  This is my first year of having an allotment so very much a novice.

[DD.]

International Kidney are your 'Jersey Royals', but having gown them over here, mine tasted nothing like them. The answer lies in the soil!

Other good salad spuds are Pink Fir Apple & Charlotte.

I've always found 'Kestrel' to make reasonable size bakers, but there are many varieties popular with other members as no doubt you'll soon find out!

[agapanthus]

I grew Picasso for the 1st time this year and was greatly surprised....massive tubers  approx 8-10lb per plant! They were a bit blighted...but not as much as the others....I also cut the haulms down fairly early in the year and they wer'nt affected at all. Will deffo be growing them again next year

[WG.]

Pink Fir Apple for the best flavour

[Annie]

Like Aggapanthus I grew picasso for the first time and also got blight so were harvested mid July but there was still a very good crop of good sized potatoes which seem to be general purpose.If harvested later then the crop would have been even better,and although the foliage was badly affected by blight non of the tubers have deteriorated in store.The charlottes,nice waxy potatoes salads also fared well and you can dig up a few small and let the rest grow and they keep well so a useful early salad potato.Pink fir is a late maincrop so this part of the country I wouldn`t normally harvest these until the end of this month(badly blighted this year)and produce a good, nutty,waxy salad type potatoes so superior to the supermarket ones,they also store well with no loss of flavour well past Christmas ,if you have resisted eating them that long.
  I`ve also tried international kidneys and got varied results and gave up when I found  varieties with better flavours.

[muntjac]

my picasso crop was brilliant also .loads of big jacket spuds ./also grew rouge that WG sent me down .agian good results

[splodger]

i like kestrel - great size and yeild - good all rounder