Baking Potato

Hi

What is the best potato to plant for baking potatoes.

 

This is such a good question but I'm looking to others to provide the answer

 

ill be following this thread too...I think Charlotte makes a good baker, its classsed as a second early but I find it so slug resisitant I treat it as a main too, as we have quite a slug problem this makes it the most practical baker for me...ut id be really interested on peoples toughts on best for taste alone.

 

Well. I haven't grown spuds for quite a few years but King Edwards was my regular choice. It's a main crop and is really tasty for baking. It's versatile too and this is important if you only grow one type, like I used to.

Trouble is, you've made me hungry and I've now got a big baked potato, filled with cottage cheese and chives, floating about in my mind!

 

I'd say maris piper or cara, but you can buy them easy enough so I dont bother growing them.:ywn:

 

:hehe:

 

None other than the IDAHO Potato. The best baking potato in the the world.

 

Is "Idaho" potato actually a variety, or is it a spud from Idaho?

Its probably available here if it is, but under a different name, but I'm only guessing as DEFRA is not likely to allow it in.
Unless it sneaked in decades ago.

 

Yep, your right Marley. The Idaho potato benefits from the soil out there it grows in. Just like the famous New Jersey Tomatoes--something about the soil in New Jersey that makes the tomato extra special, and also the Vidalia Onion -its all about the soil it grows in. Thank goodness I live close enough to New Jersey I can get both of them in season, yummy.

 

mmmm or the Prince Edward Island potatoes as well - again it's the soil - from the 'red rock' as we used to call the island due to it's really red soil. Alot of McCain's products are produced using PEI potatoes

 

:skp:mmmmmmm?