Potato Varieties 2017

[MarkHackwell]

Sooo 3 simple questions to ask as just wondered what potatoes everyone else is growing

Which Potato Varieties are you trying/growing this year?

Why?

And what do you use/plan to use the potatoes for? (E.g Mashing/Salad/Roast)

Thanks for answering in advance

[Newbiegrower1970]

I saved 4 purple potatoes i bought in France. Chitting them atm ready for planting soon

[Thelma Sanders]

Pentland Javelin for early new potatoes, if left longer they make a decent size and I use them for roasting and mashing.
I'm also trying Spunta this year, this is the 'Cyprus' potato I grew up with, always sold in the Summer. It was a lovely waxy potato for potato salad or plain boiled - I'm hoping it will taste the same grown here.....
I can but try

[Penellype]

1st early Lady Christl for new potatoes and some to keep for later use for boiling, mashing and chips.
2nd early Charlotte for new potatoes/boiling
maincrop Desiree for mashing and chips
maincrop Sarpo Mira for keeping over winter to provide mash and chips in early spring (and as insurance in case of blight).

I may or may not decide to grow some Charlotte for Christmas depending on available space. Last year they lasted only a month before getting blight and producing almost nothing to eat.

Apart from the Sarpo Mira, these varieties are the ones I like the taste of best from those I have tried.

[Nicos]

Just Charlottes as usual.
Great for salads.
They are waxy but do roast and jacket well , but don't properly mash. Better to crush them.
We still have a few in store from last year's crop...so they store well too.

[Bigmallly]

I'm not a lover of boiled or jacket spuds so with that in mind I find you can't go wrong with good old King Ted's.

[Lumpy]

Just Charlottes as usual.
Great for salads.
They are waxy but do roast and jacket well , but don't properly mash. Better to crush them.
We still have a few in store from last year's crop...so they store well too.

The same as Nicos.
They are normally fast to grow (well thats jinxed it then). I don't bother with main crop varieties because of the blight problems.

[Nannysally99]

At the moment just Charlottes for us this year, spuds did take over our garden last year .....

[sparrow100]

I have a slightly embarrassing number of varieties - but most are very small numbers:
Lady Christl - boiled, crushed or roasted
Charlotte - same as above
Ambo - as above
Pink Fir Apple - boiled
Ratte - same
British Queen - not sure
Alouette - mash etc
Yucon Gold - everything

[Baldy]

Trying a new (for me) first early called 'Colleen' as it claimed to be multi-use and blight resistant (though I suspect its only the Sarpo varieties that have much evidence behind them for that).
Varieties

Rocket is the other one I think - better check...

[Potstubsdustbins]

First early Lady C, those in buckets will be used for new boiled potatoes, those in the six bins will be left in the ground longer and will be used for bakers and chippers.

Main crop Picasso, bakers, chippers and mash.

Both varieties suit our taste, grow well in containers and the Picasso store well.

[BUFFS]

Got my mpc today for my tatties,salad blue for the sheer taste and the odd dark blue colour all the way through, also highland burgundy for taste, no good for mash as it goes to pulp but excellent in all the other uses , and if peeled with a parer you get a white spud but cut it in half and you can see the white is only about 1/4ins deep,the inner part is dark red, so we have weird chip and roastie colours with our dinners, we also do charlotte for the summer salads as they are best for that..

[sherlockofsheff]

Grew potatoes for first time ever last year. Golden Wonder which were hammered by slugs, King Edwards which were decimated by slugs and Pink Fir Apple which were lovely and survived the slugs better, but still had around 50% damaged. Think the manure I put on wasn't well enough rotted and was put on too late.

This year I am growing:

1st Early
Arran Pilot
Pentland Javelin
Swift

2nd Early
Kestrel (we'll see how slug resistant they really are)
Maris Peer

Maincrop
Pink Fir Apple

[Scooter-987]

me growing

I am growing this year

Premiere
Yukon Gold
Markies

I want to try and put some wood chips over the soil where the potatoes are growing to help moisture retention, it's like that garden of Eden thing, but only if I can find wood chips for free.

[hop-a-long]

I've got a few seed potatoes chitting in the greenhouse at the moment-
I'm going to try Casablanca First Early- I planted these really late last year and even though I didnt get much of a crop they were nice so I'll give them a proper go this year!

Second Earlies- British Queen, Charlotte and Elfe. Charlotte is my favourite potato for salad, and British Queen is a lovely floury new boiled potato. Elfe is a new discovery, I found them at the supermarket recently and thought the flavour was really great. I had a look in the local garden centre, didnt see any seed of them, so went back to the supermarket and got another bag for chitting myself! They're a bit behind the rest but there's signs of sprouts so will hopefully come good.

and Rooster for maincrop- This is another lovely floury potato and grew really well for me a few years back, so I'll give it a go.