Home grown potatoes tasteless

[Creemteez]

What is the tastiest potato to grow?

Now there's a question you'll get many different answers to! Personally I'm growing King Edwards, Pentland Javelin and Pink Fir Apple this year. All of them have great flavour and different cooking
qualities.
If you have limited space I would suggest a trip to the shops to see what the most expensive varieties are. Pink Fir Apple are a good example of this as a very small bag is over two pounds!

[Germinater]

Well king Edwards are very tasty and a great alround potato mash roast chip they do it all .it's why there so well known and there quite an old variaty .it's all we use in the kitchen at work as we know wot we will get from it ..if you want news charlottes are a great flaver but I think there a little latter thanmost first earlys to harvest ..rosters (main crop )are great tasting .and heard Maris piper are good eating potatos .depends on wot you will use your potatos for most ..but as I said king Edward do it all ..so that's wot I'm growing ..first year but will keep to them as there so versatile .

[Potstubsdustbins]

Don't think they are King Edwards even the all white variety is oval. Looks like some kind of first early to me maybe Lady Christl.

Colin

[solway cropper]

Lady Christl are probably the tastiest new potato I've ever eaten. To end up with a tasteless lady Christl you'd have to be doing something weird. Interestingly they seem to develop more flavour if left for a day or two after lifting.

[sewer rat]

Deffo not Lady Christl - they are more oval and have a yellow skin and yellow buttery flesh (they also happen to be our fave first early).
There are so many round white potatoes it is almost impossible to say what they could be - not King Edwards I agree as there is no sign of the red splashes. The "tasteless" description leads me to say Maris Peer - a "wet" tattie bred and grown for the canning market - tastes of nothing but water - I planted 25kg of these 3 years ago and couildn't give the resultant crop away.
But before some other grape comes along and disagrees with me, everybody has different tastes and wet tatties are not very popular up here in the Highlands where "floury" tatties rule the roost.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Have to agree with you about taste SC, I have 2 dustbins and 3 large planters full of Lady C ready to start harvesting in the next week or so. I also like them because they can stay in the ground as second earlies without any ill effect.

As to leaving them a couple of days before using maybe the chap who told me to do just that was right after all.

Colin

[Aberdeenplotter]

Looks like winston to me. I'd ban that tattie completely. Total lack of taste, horrible texture and really wet. Might as well eat a bar of soap.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Tastiest early tattie for me is Red Duke Of York.

[Potstubsdustbins]

One of the giveaways for Maris Peer is its purple flowers. Might that give LL a clue.

Colin

[sewer rat]

Looks like winston to me. I'd ban that tattie completely. Total lack of taste, horrible texture and really wet. Might as well eat a bar of soap.

Could be Winston but it is not that common in the garden centres. I know it is a tasteless tattie with little to recommend it but it very good for showing.

[Tam]

Epicure is a cracker.

[Two_Sheds]

I have been lead to believe that you should keep/rest even new spuds for a couple of days before eating.

I'd never heard that, but it's interesting. My tasty Charlottes were eaten within the hour and were delicious

Some plants have flowered but the stems (haulms) are still green and vigorous. ... What skins there were, were easily rubbed off between thumb and forefinger.

Yep, early spuds have skins that haven't toughened at all and can be easily rubbed off: they won't store long though. You can eat any spud at any stage of its growth: grow maincrops if you want a potato to store for use over the winter.

I harvest them when the foliage has started to yellow and die back (because it's not going to grow any more after that)

Personally I'm growing King Edwards, Pentland Javelin and Pink Fir Apple this year. All of them have great flavour

Pink Fir are my overall favourites as a salad potato. The best jacket I ever had was an Osprey from Tesco, but it didn't do well for me when I grew it

This is a good resource for choosing what to grow: Potato Varieties - Potato Council

[jackie j]

I grow Pentland Javelin which are very white, not tasteless though, could yours be those.

[Loudbarker1]

I'm very happily eating Arran Pilot at the moment......

[Nicos]

The only totally tasteless spud I've grown was the Sarpo when it first appeared.
I tried it because of it's blight resistance. Never again- although I think there are a few types of Sarpo on the market now, so they may have remedied that problem?????

SR....Maris Peer are watery???....oh lordy- I've planted a pile of those cos I thought they might be like Maris Piper- and I couldn't find those when we were in the UK at Xmas.