Tatties

[KEEFS CUFC]

Hi Guys
Anyone grown Home Guard before?
Any good?

[DataMonkey]

I hate to see an unanswered post, so I'll chip in with a "No"...

[Martin H]

I've never grown them myself, but they were very popular with people on my first allotment site. I remember that they were ready earlier than my Arran Pilots but I don't know what they tasted like.

[4Shoes]

They should be good. Fed the population during the war years.....

But then again they used water glass to preserve eggs as well then..

I'll let you know (if I remember) around end June time.

[Mark_Riga]

I've never grown this variety but it sounds like it should be a good early to try from the blurb on them.
I've recently been growing rocket as an early which tastes OK followed by vivaldi which is a very tasty boiler and then harmony for baking and carolus as a blight resistant main crop.
I grow the earlies and vivaldi together in one plot and the carolus and harmony some distance away in another. If the earlies get blight they will hopefully keep it to themselves.

[geepee]

Hi Guys
Anyone grown Home Guard before?
Any good?

Its a very old variety......most varieties become outclassed by new varieties due to research and development into better qualities such as pest and disease resistance etc, however ....I'm not one to 'Knock' an old un.
Gp

[Jonnyt]

Well I'm trying them this year as they are good for clay soils according to the blurp. Given my allotments full of clay and my patch until last year was where the rubbish was dumped and weeds burnt since the war it's going to take a good few years to correct this.

Here's hoping!

[4Shoes]

Its a very old variety......most varieties become outclassed by new varieties due to research and development into better qualities such as pest and disease resistance etc, however ....I'm not one to 'Knock' an old un.
Gp

~Would agree that pest and disease resistance does tend to get better (along with shallow eyes and reduced skin thickness) with newer tatties, but often at the expense of taste.

[Snoop Puss]

I guess you'll have read this, or something like it:
Home Guard - First early
They sound quite good for crop, flavour and disease resistance.

Good luck.