Recommend Me A Salad Potato Please.

[ginger ninger]

Here ya go ginge...the tattiemans list of salad potatoes.......

Seed Potato Catalogue - Salad Potatoes

Now that's why your our MoMmy. I'd forgotten about Tattieman...but don't tell him

[bearded bloke]

I use Rocket as a salad spud but I think it is officially a first early

Edit.just checked on the tattieman link from Bin's .....

Rocket seed potatoes when first released in 1987 were the quickest bulking of all early potatoes. Rockets ability to grow large crops of uniformed round tubers made it very popular.

Rocket was considered to be one of the better exhibition potatoes at the time.

Rocket has a mild taste. Tubers are white fleshed and skinned with shallow eyes.

There is good resistance to blackleg, common scab, and spraing.

Lifting of Rocket before full maturity is recommended to avoid cracking of the tubers.

Culinary uses are early boiling and salads.

[Two_Sheds]

my preference is Pink Fir Apple.

same here, I love it.

People complain that it's too difficult to clean - it's a lot easier if you snap off all the nobbles before you start with the nailbrush

I grow mine under a grass clipping mulch, so they don't get all that mucky anyway

[Kristen]

Thanks Mommy, I think I'll go with the Charlotte. The Potato council can't be too wrong...after all it's there job .

Charlotte - Potato Council

Up's...I see chris bet mi too it .

It may be their job but their database appears to be inconsistent The Potato Council variety database:

The British Potato Variety Database

lists Charlotte as a second early, and not a salad potato, but their search for Salad Potatoes includes Charlotte - and excludes Pink Fir Apple that their database record lists as a salad potato. Ho!Hum!

I'm sorry for upsetting you all, but as I said I was splitting hairs and it was probably not what the O/P's question was anyway - the question is probably not "A potato defined as a Salad Potato" but rather "A Potato suitable for a Salad"

We grow Charlotte, and its our favourite for flavour, so it gets my vote too, but I still think its worth trying a few different ones to find one that you like best and then grow that in future years. I won't grow Pentland Javelin again, we didn't like it compared to other First Earlies we have tried, but it is probably the most popular variety. Similarly Moneymaker Tomatoes (tasteless in our opinion), which is also a popular variety.

[Flummery]

I like Charlotte too - I grow it most years. This year though, I'm growing Arran Pilot which I've enjoyed before as a salad spud (whatever it's defined as!). I also like Anya for salads. (Related to Pink Fir Apple.) Ratte is good too but you don't always get a high crop.

[Nicos]

I too am a Charlotte sort of gal!!

We grow it every year- taking it from being very small through to small jacket spud size!

Nope- it doesn't mash well- but it crushes beautifully!Yummy chips and creamy jackets.
Love them- esp rolled in butter with liberal sprinklings of chopped chives.
Best time to eat them is just before serving!!!

[Kristen]

I'm growing Arran Pilot which I've enjoyed before as a salad spud (whatever it's defined as!).

We have been growing Arran Pilot for a number of years . I haven't grown the really fast First Earlies, like Rocket, but Arran Pilot is pretty quick in my experience - we start harvesting at about 8 weeks.

[Alison]

I find that Charlotte fall apart too much on cooking. This year am trying some early harvested International Kidney and my usual of PFA which we are still eating from last year. For some reason they never seem to grow that nobbly in our soil (no idea why) which does make cleaning easier.

By the way, I'd always thought that salad potato just meant the type of potato you'd eat with a salad and that they could therefor be earlies, second earlies, main crop etc and still be salad potatoes.

[Kristen]

I find that Charlotte fall apart too much on cooking.

Not tried it myself, but I have heard people say that if a freshly harvested spud falls to bits on cooking then store it for a few days (i.e. after harvesting, and before cooking)

[Nicos]

Charlotte steams wonderfully well!

[chris]

The skins split for us, but I don't remember it falling apart.

I've not started chitting mine yet - argh ! [yes, yes I know some people don't - but I do ]