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    International Year of the Potato

    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
    Last edited by smallblueplanet; 03-03-2008, 08:20 PM.
    To see a world in a grain of sand
    And a heaven in a wild flower
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    The no. 9, 10 & 15 looks so unusual .
    I grow, I pick, I eat ...

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    • #3
      Originally posted by momol
      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
      To see a world in a grain of sand
      And a heaven in a wild flower

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      • #4
        That makes it a protected heritage potato then ?
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        • #5
          Originally posted by momol View Post
          That makes it a protected heritage potato then ?
          Not if I got my hands on it! Wonder what it mashes like?

          To see a world in a grain of sand
          And a heaven in a wild flower

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          • #6
            Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
            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.
            I grow, I pick, I eat ...

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            • #7
              Not too many varieties you want to try then Manda?
              Shortie

              "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children; one of these is roots, the other wings" - Hodding Carter

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              • #8
                And i bet they all get Blight. sigh.
                "He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"

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                • #9
                  #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.
                  I was feeling part of the scenery
                  I walked right out of the machinery
                  My heart going boom boom boom
                  "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                  I've come to take you home."

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                  • #10
                    I like number 1 - mainly for its name Atahualpa! One of the ancient South American rulers. It probably tastes of chilli or choclate!
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Seahorse
                      No 15 could be mayan twilight
                      Lol! or it could be one of the 4999 others?
                      Last edited by smallblueplanet; 04-03-2008, 08:44 AM.
                      To see a world in a grain of sand
                      And a heaven in a wild flower

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                      • #12
                        Oi! I never said 'could be Mayan Twilight'! I said it looked similar but different
                        I was feeling part of the scenery
                        I walked right out of the machinery
                        My heart going boom boom boom
                        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                        I've come to take you home."

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                        • #13
                          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 .
                          I grow, I pick, I eat ...

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                          • #14
                            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?
                            Last edited by smallblueplanet; 04-03-2008, 12:16 PM.
                            To see a world in a grain of sand
                            And a heaven in a wild flower

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                            • #15
                              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 .
                              I grow, I pick, I eat ...

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