Charlotte or Red Duke of York? potato mix-up!

[busylizzie]

I planted out my seed potatoes into buckets a while back - I have 2 buckets of Charlotte potatoes and 2 of Red Duke of York ones. They are all up now, and I noticed today that the labels seem to be a bit mixed up!

I have one type with reddish centres on the leaves and one type where the leaves are all green. Unfortunately I have 1 of each labelled the same, if you see what I mean! Don't quite know how that happened!

I'm assuming that the one with the reddish leaves are going to be the Red Duke of York ones as they are red potatoes and the Charlotte foliage is all green - anyone know if this is right?

[Alice]

I think you're right Busylizzie. I haven't grown Red Duke of York, but the leaves on Charlotte are all green.

[kirsty b]

I grew Red Duke of York last year, you do have it right. They have very pretty purple flowers when they come out too.

[Snadger]

Possibly furtling time methinks!

[muckdiva]

My Red Duke of York are just coming through, and they have red leaves - very attractive actually.

Charlottes are green.

[busylizzie]

Great, I will relabel the buckets that are wrong then.

The reddish leaves are very attractive, looking forward to the flowers!