Topic: Wacky long spuds

[Jayb]

I grew these potatoes from True Potato Seed (TPS) a cross I made year before last. They look a bit odd, but taste delish, a real waxy type. They follow Pink Fir Apple in taste and looks, except no nobbles! 

[hippydave]

they look fantastic i would be well please with them

[pumkinlover]

They look great Jayb, a bit like Anya! I'd be well chuffed!

[galina]

How fabulous!  You lucky breeder.  Hope you can keep them going.  They are just so different.  The ultimate slicing potato for potato salad 'pennies'.   

[GREGME]

congrats they look great protect seed.......
I'm a fan of harlequin, ratte and vitelotte in descending order (and pfa in a good year) fingerling potatoes - these look lovely too

[Jayb]

Wow, thanks all 

They look great Jayb, a bit like Anya! I'd be well chuffed!

You're right they do look like anya, just lots longer 

Hope you can keep them going.  They are just so different.  The ultimate slicing potato for potato salad 'pennies'.   

Hopefully for a little while, I like them a lot.  Also there's a few more of the same tps to be sown, something tasty may turn up or perhaps I can do some new crosses 

[Jeannine]

Smashing, just smashing...now what are you going to call them " Emmasline" maybe

XX Jeannine

[Jayb]

Lol, no it'll be something boring like Long Pink/White Salad! Really must try and jazz it up a bit!

[Jeannine]

Oh come on Tom uses cute names XX Jeannine

I still don't have a name for my garlic that I have grown for yonks years, I just call it my garlic

[Jayb]

Oh come on Tom uses cute names XX Jeannine

I still don't have a name for my garlic that I have grown for yonks years, I just call it my garlic

Difference is he is a master of his craft!

Lol, that's the type thing I do! Some of my home bred dwarf tomatoes = Mydwfa!!!

[Jayb]

Forgot to add, potatoes are now called Hot-Dog and Snooki!

[Jayb]

congrats they look great protect seed.......
I'm a fan of harlequin, ratte and vitelotte in descending order (and pfa in a good year) fingerling potatoes - these look lovely too

Good tasty selection Gregme 



These tubers are again from TPS, though not the same parents as Hot-dog and Snooki. I'm having some of these are for lunch, probably not waxy types though.

[galina]

Lol, that's the type thing I do! Some of my home bred dwarf tomatoes = Mydwfa!!!

Still stumped by that name - Welsh Google translate does not cooperate!  Please explain 

And how do you pronounce this? 

Hot Dog and Snooki - Like!

[Jeannine]

 Ha good one JayB, Funny thing about My Garlic, everyone else calls it Jeannine's Garlic so I guess I could call your spud
 Auntie  Emsdwarfa

XX Jeannine

[galina]

Ha good one JayB, Funny thing about My Garlic, everyone else calls it Jeannine's Garlic so I guess I could call your spud
 Auntie  Emsdwarfa

XX Jeannine

Thanks Jeannine!!!

[Jeannine]

JayB, something always seemed to get in my way of growing TPS correctly and now I am confused as to when to start. I still have seeds. Can you give me a start date etc or point me to a thread that has how to grow please. Oh and do you have any idea how long the seed lasts.

XX Jeannine

[Jayb]

Lol, that's the type thing I do! Some of my home bred dwarf tomatoes = Mydwfa!!!

Still stumped by that name - Welsh Google translate does not cooperate!  Please explain 

And how do you pronounce this? 

Hot Dog and Snooki - Like!

Mydwfa - very basic, it's a dwarf tomato I bred and not being big on naming things and to know which seeds were which it got shortened a little, my dwarf tomato = Mydwfa! very much the same theme as the variety Myona! Pronounced  as 'my dwarf a' in one word 

[Jayb]

These tubers are again from TPS, though not the same parents as Hot-dog and Snooki. I'm having some of these are for lunch, probably not waxy types though.

I should add, these were lovely, they boiled beautifully and the blue inky colour was intense. Taste was good and they were on the waxy side so bonus for me!

I guess I could call them Inky Squid! I've saved a few tubers, although I lost some to blight. I now have 3 varieties for salad type fingerlings Inky Squid, Snooki and Hot-dog, if I'm ultra lucky I might get a flower to cross and set then I might get a red fleshed fingerling! Roll on potato growing time 

[Jayb]

JayB, something always seemed to get in my way of growing TPS correctly and now I am confused as to when to start. I still have seeds. Can you give me a start date etc or point me to a thread that has how to grow please. Oh and do you have any idea how long the seed lasts.

XX Jeannine

There is a thread somewhere, I'll try and dig it up, but it is quite long to go through. I've been starting mine in March and this has worked well for me, probably mid March to the end so they are not too big before planting out after last frost. Might be an idea if I start another thread, I'm not sure TPS has appeal to many but it might be fun to grow them together?

[Nigel B]

Hi JayB :)

I was wondering how big did the foliage grow for those lovely-looking Hot-Dog and Snooki spuds you have there?
I'm a complete fan of Pink Fir Apple, they boil or steam beautifully, but if they could be improved in any way (in my own humble whatnot and stuff), they would taste the same but with shorter foliage so they don't flop all over the place, and those knobbles of course. Not a real problem, but yunno. :)