[Madame Cholet]

Are there any early pots which are more like main crops as I don't like the earthy taste! ie ones i can mash or roast.

[the Kergan]

Aww their lovely, you just have to prepare them right. Lovely with butter or salad cream, or make potato salad. Yummy

[Gandan57]

Duke Of York and Red Duke Of York are two varieties with a more floury texture I believe.

[tosca100]

Are there any early pots which are more like main crops as I don't like the earthy taste! ie ones i can mash or roast.

 

Have you seen a doctor?

[arugula]

My immediate thought would be don't grow them and leave more space for maincrops.

[m1ckz]

hmmmm new pots just dont last long enough,,,,there soon gone  lol  yummy

[Mrs Bee]

Have you tried roasting them with a little garlic, olive oil and rosemary?
Or roasted with red onions, garlic cloves, oregano and lemon juice
Or in a curry
or roasted with butter, onion and paprika
or in a lemon, mint and mustard dressing
with sour cream ir creme fraiche
or crushed with mint and butter
or.........................

there is a most marvelous potato cookbook by Lindsey Bareham published by michael Joseph which is well worht a place  on the cookbook shelf.

[sunshineband]

Go for second earlies instead -- Kestrel is perfick 

[Rampant_Weasel]

if they taste earthy its because they have common scab.try a more resistant variety next year.

http://varieties.potato.org.uk/varietyindex.php%20?page_no=1

use the advanced search.

[Willow_Warren]

I par boiled and then shallow fried my swift potatoes last week - YUMMY!!!!

Although I have to confess I got more of the "new potato" flavour when I had them just lightly boiled with some butter at the weekend...

Had a poor crop so from 7 seed potatoes they were all gone on 3 meals for 2!  I am holding out more hope for the Charlottes... (fingers crossed)

Hannah

[compostqueen]

Don't like them 

Me and OH generally stand at the cooker eating them out the pan    I think Charlotte and Arran Pilot take some beating.  Arran P can be grown on to make jacket potatoes and are very delish in that role too (the texture is soft and creamy, they're lush) 

[Scotch Thistle]

I grow Epicure first earlies, basically because I too don't like the texture of most early spuds.
Epicure are a nice large fluffy dry white potato that are great baked, roasted, mashed etc etc

[DoubleDigger]

hmmmm new pots just dont last long enough,,,,there soon gone  lol  yummy

I buy my 'seed' with everyone else, early doors.....then chit it & plant my first couple of short rows under whatever cover I can muster, then leave the chitted seed in "egg trays" in decent light & plant a couple of short rows every few weeks up until September.  The chits stay 'stubby' & if they start to look a bit sad, I spray them with seaweed solution.  That way we get first early New Potatoes for 'salad' use all year from late May / June to Christmas.

Personally I grow Anya, for hot, cold & sauteed & chop the tops off once the Potatoes are at the size I want, they will sit quite happily in the ground for weeks....but don't wait for them to flower, because in my experience, they don't.   

I don't grow any Maincrop because I don't have the space & the 25Kg sacks around us are 'cheap as chi......

[Alastair-I]

Duke Of York and Red Duke Of York are two varieties with a more floury texture I believe.

I grew Duke of York last year, it's very like a main crop in texture and taste.  You can lift as a new potato or leave that bit longer.  It's on the list for next year, only reason I didn't plant it this year was I left it a little late before ordering.

I'll need to check my list for what varieties I planted this year.. but a quick furtle last night suggested that I may be disapointed this year

[Madame Cholet]

thanks some great ideas I haven't grown main crop as oh can get sacks for £4 but there is always a gap between the old ones running out and the next years. I usually buy the biggest new ones I can get and peel and mash them.

But I may need more space as the lotty is aready full with all my other veg not sure how theres only 2 of us.

need to see a doctor yes Iknow i'm a bit