International Year of the Potato

[smallblueplanet]

Yes really.

International Year of the Potato 2008

Some of these varieties look very interesting, I'd like to try

1, 3, 4, 6,

9

10

13

& 15.

The potato: Varieties - International Year of the Potato 2008

[momol]

The no. 9, 10 & 15 looks so unusual .

[smallblueplanet]

The no. 9, 10 & 15 looks so unusual .

15. Unknown [variety name]
From Chile, one of more than 5000 native varieties still grown in the Andes

5000

[momol]

That makes it a protected heritage potato then ?

[smallblueplanet]

That makes it a protected heritage potato then ?

Not if I got my hands on it! Wonder what it mashes like?

[momol]

Not if I got my hands on it! Wonder what it mashes like?

Lol, I would do the same Manda , there is no point growing unedible pots.

[Shortie]

Not too many varieties you want to try then Manda?

[vegnut]

And i bet they all get Blight. sigh.

[Seahorse]

#15 looks a bit like one I'm getting from T&M. I don't think it's on the website, as it was a subscriber offer but it looks pretty much the same except that the darker bits are a pinky colour. It's called Mayan Twilight.

[Flummery]

I like number 1 - mainly for its name Atahualpa! One of the ancient South American rulers. It probably tastes of chilli or choclate!

[smallblueplanet]

No 15 could be mayan twilight

Lol! or it could be one of the 4999 others?

[Seahorse]

Oi! I never said 'could be Mayan Twilight'! I said it looked similar but different

[momol]

Hi SBP,

got this interesting link, it is a german web (translated in a incomplete english). He has lots of flaboyant potatoes :
Translated version of http://mitglied.lycos.de/rkraft/Kartoffelfotos/kartoffel.htm

His Bicolour seedlings looks like the no. 15.
I would love to have his All Red/ Cranberry potatoes .

[smallblueplanet]

I've got some of the red Franceline spuds chitting, but I'm not sure about potatoes with too vivid a colour flesh!



These are Bamberger squirrels!

I'm not sure whether UK Customs allows us to bring in potatoes even from the EU? Anyone know?

[momol]

I love experimenting and tasting new stuff . The colour ones are very high in pigment (antochyanin) and suppose to be very very potent antioxidant in fighting free radical which in the end result as anti cancer. Perhaps we have to eat loads to get the effect .