Topic: New potato variety in news...

[petuariapete]

This also made the BBC TV News this moriing...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/5412360.stm

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[Rosyred]

Sounded nice on the news, we will have to look out for the seeds next year.

[Toadspawn]

Is this the potato which has been bred to taste like the first potato introduced into the UK.
I guess the seed tubers will be a bit expensive initially.

[Jill]

Do sound good but wonder how blight resistant they are.

[calendula]

hmmm, as if we don't have enough varieties, many of which are brilliant, full of flavour and do exactly what it says on the tin  ;)

not so sure I am for all this intensive breeding either, especially when a plant is not indigenous to a region but anything new will always get a lot of takers  :(

[froglets]

"growers say they have more flavour than normal spuds which bulk up on water"

erm, not if you grow your own!

[Moggle]

T&M are doin em! Saw them in their kitchen gardener's catalogue last week.

[the_snail]

What I am concerned about is the price they will put on these. Will it be a rediculus price because the crop you get from an a certain area is alot less than you would get from a commercial seed potato. So in my opinion less potatos means higher prices.

The_Snail

[keef]

I wonder how many deadly posinous one they produced before getting this new varitee.. I'd like to try them - but i bet supermarket bought ones still taste rubbish compared to most own grown spuds.

[cambourne7]

I looked at them last year but was put off as it says they dont boil ( go to mush apparantly ) as i only boil and bake them and sometimes roast probably not going to suit me.

[the_snail]

This Year is the Year of the small spud!

So means no person spending more time at the sink peeling! ( I Do and always will!) potatos for chips. Or will it mean more frozen stupid chips in the shoping basket. Peel your own and freeze them!

I always cook and cater for my family! Its fun and I enjoy it I dont have alot of time 13 hour day some time but hey I still make a mean tea from scratch!

The_snail