Whats the 'NEW' tattie on the block this year........

[Snadger]

Fancy trying summat new that's all..............

[Guest]

What was the old tattie? I am boring, I only grow pink fir and that is every year and the occasional charlotte.

[Snadger]

What was the old tattie? I am boring, I only grow pink fir and that is every year and the occasional charlotte.

PFA does well on my plot and gives me good crops, but my normals are Kestel 2nd early (slug resistant),Desiree or Maxine for maincrop and Duke of York for earlies

What i want is taste, slug resistance, heavy cropper, blight resistant..........don't want much do i!

[bearded bloke]

Jumps in to extol the virtues of Kerr's Pink as the ultimate mashing spud, it can be cooked in other ways as well, but once you've tried it mashed you won't want to eat it any other way

[Zelenina]

Jumps in to extol the virtues of Kerr's Pink as the ultimate mashing spud, it can be cooked in other ways as well, but once you've tried it mashed you won't want to eat it any other way

Kerr's Pink is one of my favourites from the time I lived in Ireland. Also known there as Kerry Pinks or just Pinks.

But I prefer to cook and eat them in traditional Irish fashion. Boil in their skins until they start splitting open, then tip most of the water out and steam them on a cooler part of the range until they are done. Then just cut them open and eat with salt and butter. Delicious!!

[bearded bloke]

Thanks for that Zelenina I'll give it a go

[Mr Bones]

Sarpo Una for main crop. Blight resistant, not noticed any scab, good cropper, excellent chipper/roasties, mashes well and slug resistant. Kestrels always do well but grew twelve varieties last year and Una came out tops.

[Guest]

I don't s'pose any of you have come across amigo, EM10 Mary's Rose and Foxton?

I thought I would go to the E.A. potato day next year and I have never heard of these varieties and can't seem to find anything other than they are early maincrop. Have a feeling I will have to wait and see.

[Jeanied]

Well now my Red Duke of Yorks are very tasty and apparently do for any cooking method. Have been eating them for a good few weeks now as they are really good.

For amazing mash I love my Salad Blues. Yummy. And they keep some of the colour - making lilac mash

[solway cropper]

PFA does well on my plot and gives me good crops, but my normals are Kestel 2nd early (slug resistant)

Could you have a word with my Kestrels and explain to them that they should be slug resistant. Crop was decimated this year.

[Zelenina]

Thanks for that Zelenina I'll give it a go

Records too! Another Irish favourite. Very tasty And Queens for an earlier feed of spuds. Cook and eat them all the same way, boiled with their skins on, with most of the water tipped out near the end and a bit of steaming to finish.

They are all flouries and tend to disintegrate if you peel them first. If you don't want to eat the skins (the best bit in my opinion) you peel them at the table onto a side plate, and then you can feed the ready-cooked peels to the dogs or hens or pigs.

And the bit that burns slightly and sticks to the bottom of the pot during the final steaming is a special delicacy

[Snadger]

Could you have a word with my Kestrels and explain to them that they should be slug resistant. Crop was decimated this year.

Maybe I just dreamed this? I've never had slug problems with them so thought they were resistant? I grow Maxine though which slugs seem to lurve!