Which is the best potato for jackets...

... that can be grown in containers?

I've decided to start my own business and will require a supply of potatoes for baking. I had some lovely salad potatoes last year. However, I've never attempted to grow spuds suitable for baking in a container.

Which are your favourites?

 

Your gonna need quite a few containers!

Any of the spuds named will make good jackets.

Maris Piper, King Edward, Estima, Desiree.


Cheers, Tony.

 

Here you go John, have a look through here Baked potatoes 69 varieties to look through there.

Cara is a popular maincrop variety noted as a good baker and is also blight resistant too. I've not grown it myself.

I grow King Edwards as maincrop and although the yield is good the overall size is smaller than other varieties so prob not suitable for a "Jacket potato" business.

Steve...

 

I forgot all about JBA! That's where I got my seed potatoes from last year. Time for some research.

 

I use Maris Piper, Estima & Désirée for jacket spuds, don't like King Edwards (for anything - maybe it was how my mother cooked them that put me off them for life?), and also Kestrels, so that's everything I normally grow apart from Charlotte.

Who cooks which varieties in the oven, microwave, or slow cooker and what difference it makes might be interesting.

 

CONFUSED ?

Business, require supply of potatoes for baking, Containers ? does not compute

Jack McH