International Kidney Potato

[peanut]

I love Jersey Royal spuds and have discovered International Kidney.

Can any of you potato connoisseurs recommend it?

Thanks

[Cutecumber]

They taste pretty much like Jersey Royals to me.

The yields aren't enormous, but you're growing for quality as opposed to quantity.

[veg4681]

I love Jersey Royal spuds and have discovered International Kidney.

Can any of you potato connoisseurs recommend it?

BTW there's Royal Kidney too, but more expensive than International (I think). Could they be tastier? Pity Wilko don't sell International Kidney otherwise I would have defo gone for them .

[lainey lou]

I will be growing international kidney this year, I have 20 tubers of these chitting in my shed. Can't wait to taste them, love Jersey Royals.

[jacob marley]

International Kidney as i understand it is Jersey Royals grown on the Island of Jersey they are only allowed to export Jersy Royals to keep there good name as early potato growers and they use the name in there advertising but International Kidney is one and the same jacob

[Cutecumber]

Yup, I believe that is the case.

The taste will differ slightly, however, according to the growing media. Mine tasted very nice, but I would venture that the flavour was not as pronounced.

[Snadger]

I grew International Kidney last year. They are a maincrop which are lifted early when immature as earlies. I left some to grow the full distance and had huge crops of huge tatties with not a lot of taste. I planted mine at the same time as my Duke of York but when cropped at the same time they were a lot smaller in size of tattie and crop, but tastier than the Duke I thought! Does this make sense..........well it does to me anyway!

[lainey lou]

I grew International Kidney last year. They are a maincrop which are lifted early when immature as earlies. I left some to grow the full distance and had huge crops of huge tatties with not a lot of taste. I planted mine at the same time as my Duke of York but when cropped at the same time they were a lot smaller in size of tattie and crop, but tastier than the Duke I thought! Does this make sense..........well it does to me anyway!

Are you sayng they are tasty if cropped as earlies but if left as main crop they're not so good? If that's the case, that's very useful to know, thanks Snadger.

[johntynycoed]

I grow about 200 International Kidney every year and dig them up as soon as I spot blight, which on Anglesey can even be late June. So I grow them as earlies as they do on Jersey but I find they keep at least until November. I am under orders from the family to grow no other as they like them so much. I would like to know what people think are the benefits of chitting as I know that modern thinking is that iti is counter productive, especially if using a potato planter.

[Sue]

I agree with Snadger, harvest them early and they are marvellous. They do grown very large and as he says then don't have much taste. I grow them as an extra so I can dig them up as tinies. Love them.
I thought I'd read that on Jersey they used seaweed as fertiliser and this was supposed to give them that unique taste?
Sue

[pammiep]

Can you tell me where you buy them as I have looked all over? cheers pam

[Paulottie]

I brought a 2.5 kg bag for about £4 at a garden centre, Produced by Taylors bulbs... no address but I am sure you could google them down.

I think part of the thing with jrsey royals is the amount of seaweed and the slopes are very steep with a marine micorclimate (ie no tractor compaction & frost falls off the field which is why they are so early and tasty.)

Never tried them befor,e but thanks for that Snadger. I hadn't realised they were really a maincrop spud till i saw the packet, I shan't bother letting any go the distance then.

I still recommend Juliette to anyone who likes a salad spud. I sent off for some Rattes from Dobies and they sent PFAs instead with a note...bit disappointed, as I have wanted to grow some for years.