Favourite potatoes you have grown this year

This year I have grown:

Ulster classic - gorgeous
British Queen - not impressed
Blue Belle - Very good
Kestrel - Okay
Pink fir apple - gorgeous

Thankfully we had no blight this year cus I think the pink fir can be badly affected.
And loved the Ulster classic so much that I'm growing some for Christmas!!

What is everyone elses opinions?

 

Mine did better than I expected this year;
First Earlies: Arran Pilot. Ever reliable, good flavour, did well again this year despite the dry spring.
Second Earlies: Kestrel. Normally quite prolific, this year they produced fewer tubers but they were noticably larger than usual. Overall, the quantity in terms of actual weight came out about the same.
No trouble with blight here, been far too dry.

 

Arran Pilots were a bit dissapointing, despite growing some in pure horse poo. Charlottes are good & PFAs are excellent. Large yield too,



This is just 5 of them that I entered at the show, scared the judges though

Still got some more varieties in the ground yet.

 

Mrs wouldn't care if I had, but might try that on Sister in law

How many bruises did Mrs JWK inflict on you afterwards ?:D

 

Not done any for years. I am wondering whether to try those patio bags while I wait forever for an allotment!

But when younger I used to be put to work on my Mum's allotment and she always did desiree and pink fur which was my favourite! Sadly I have fallen out with my mother's partner and have no access to her allotment now and I wonder what state it is in and if he even put spuds in! But the council rules say allotments can be left to partners and spouses but not children. Fair I guess.

Lovely spuds!

Kate

 

Thats a shame Kate:(but i'd certainly give the potato bags a try
I grew some charlottes and they were great,never grown potatoes before so hoping it wasn't beginers luck....:D

 

Dug up and ate my Melody Potatoes today, they were alright.

 

Hi folks.

I grew Arran Pilots and Maris Peer this year. A couple of years ago I switched from the 'Pilots' and tried Duke Of York. They were alright, but nowhere near as good as the AP's. I find that AP's are not a heavy cropper, but for me, new spuds are all about flavour, and I aint EVER switching again! As for the Maris Peer, they were ok I guess in terms of flavour, and produced a good size crop of uniform tubers, but following an earlier thread I posted, I'm going to try the Charlottes next year.

Cheers...Freddy.

 

Yes for me it's about flavour too so I may try Arran pilots next year.

 

I grew Charlottes in patio bags this year and was very pleased with the crop.

I will be growing them again next year.

Trevor

 

This year I have grown:

In Bags

International Kidney
Charlotte
Pink Fir Apple (free from Homebase, planted late and better than I had when bought and plated earlier)


In Open Ground

Kestrel (these always crop well on my plot)
Desiree (ditto)
Mafona (shan't bother with these again)
Sarpo Mira (dug up today planted late and grew better than last time
Lady Balfour (free from Homebase, planted very late and not dug up yet)
Colleen (ditto)
Maris Piper (ditto)
Pentland Javelin (ditto)

 

Dug up my free Homebase spuds and I found out today that I'd also grown Vivaldi, obtained free from Homebase (rabbits had moved the label).

Never grown any of these varieties before, and bearing in mind they were on their last legs, shrivelled, had long sprouts climbing out the bags, were planted late mid-June, and into freshly rotavated ground with hardly any added nutrients, and then suffered from drought, I didn't expect much but free seed potatoes provides a chance to try something new.

Vivaldi - complete failure.

Lady Balfour - decent size, but most ruined by slugs.#

Colleen - I'm impressed how well this first early they did in the circumstances and subject to a taste test I might try these next year as they did so well in such adverse conditions. A forum search revealed Alice grows them - are you reading this ? This was the crop from the 3 manky tubers planted too late and in rubbish soil: