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Which potatoes do you recommend?

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  • nopot2pin
    nopot2pin Posts: 5,721 Forumite
    I have Rooster, rocket and maris pipers :D
  • colt
    colt Posts: 54 Forumite
    For earlies i grow Rocket
    For my main crop i grow Vivaldi you can use these for everything and are even good if you are on a low carb diet. These are the best spuds i have ever grown.
  • Furny
    Furny Posts: 846 Forumite
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    Any wrote: »
    Thank you guys for all the recommendations..

    Anya sounds very good (for new potato-boil if I understand correctly?), failing that Charlotte,
    and Rooster it is for chippy/mashed ones I think?

    Rooster is great for chipping, mashing, steaming, baking & roasting but Charlotte is more a salad potato suitable for boiling.
    I got both of these two packs from Morissons 5 seeds for £1! bargain!
  • D&DD
    D&DD Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    The Anya's are great for salad potato's Any they are a really heavy cropper too I've found.
    I love charlotte but they never seem to crop that well in the bags for me.
  • Furny
    Furny Posts: 846 Forumite
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    D&DD wrote: »
    The Anya's are great for salad potato's Any they are a really heavy cropper too I've found.
    I love charlotte but they never seem to crop that well in the bags for me.

    Thats interesting D &DD as it's my first year with that variety in bags. I shall have to wait & see!.
  • alm721
    alm721 Posts: 728 Forumite
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    Ive just bought arran pilot but not tried them before, anyone any opinions as to what thy're like?
  • grandmaster00
    grandmaster00 Posts: 73 Forumite
    Linda32 wrote: »
    Hi,


    For growing in tubs, I'd imagine it would be best to go for small potatoes. So Pink Fir Apple are small, although very popular, there wasn't any left at the nursery I went to at the weekend. Charlotte is another good salad potato.

    pfa's can grow large actually ... i regularly get crops where 1 spud is approx 2kg in weight !!!! my partner thinks i should submit them to the guinness book of records
  • grandmaster00
    grandmaster00 Posts: 73 Forumite
    edited 1 March 2011 at 9:36AM
    as for recommendations then its got to be ...

    pfa's for salad or anyas as others suggest - but who peels salad spuds anyway?

    vivaldi,rooster, maris pipers or kind eddies for a good all rounder that will produce excellent mash, chips, roast and baked (jackets)

    pretty much forget the rest lol
  • nopot2pin
    nopot2pin Posts: 5,721 Forumite
    alm721 wrote: »
    Ive just bought arran pilot but not tried them before, anyone any opinions as to what thy're like?


    I think this is what I was given a couple of years ago by a friend.
    If I remember correctly, they are quite a floury potato, good for mashing ect
  • r.a.i.n.b.o.w
    r.a.i.n.b.o.w Posts: 638 Forumite
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    Which "blue" spud would you recommend, and why?
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