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Photo Gallery => The Gallery => Topic started by: Jayb on September 29, 2013, 17:38:48
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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! :toothy10:
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they look fantastic i would be well please with them
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They look great Jayb, a bit like Anya! I'd be well chuffed!
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How fabulous! You lucky breeder. Hope you can keep them going. They are just so different. The ultimate slicing potato for potato salad 'pennies'. :sunny:
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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
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Wow, thanks all :happy7:
They look great Jayb, a bit like Anya! I'd be well chuffed!
You're right they do look like anya, just lots longer :toothy10:
Hope you can keep them going. They are just so different. The ultimate slicing potato for potato salad 'pennies'. :sunny:
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 :blob7:
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Smashing, just smashing...now what are you going to call them " Emmasline" maybe
XX Jeannine
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Lol, no it'll be something boring like Long Pink/White Salad! Really must try and jazz it up a bit!
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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
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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!!!
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Forgot to add, potatoes are now called Hot-Dog and Snooki!
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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 :happy7:
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.
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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 :toothy10:
And how do you pronounce this?
Hot Dog and Snooki - Like!
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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
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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!!!
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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
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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 :toothy10:
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 :drunken_smilie:
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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 :blob7:
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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?
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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. :)
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Thanks Jay, the bit I can't seem to remember is... when you start in March does that take you all the through to harvest ot just to minis that you have to plant again..it is ther mini bit that is fogging me . I have seeds fro Ratte only, the others I must have tried and they must have been among the seedlings I lost when the poop hit the fan in the Spring. I ad some form you and from Tom?? XX Jeannine
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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. :)
To be honest I don't remember the foliage standing out that much one way or the other, then it was cut down with blight mid August. I cooked some alongside PFA and thought they were gorgeous and certainly held their own, plus I love the length and look of them, others may not agree. I'm pretty sure I've still have a small secret stash left to eat, if you are interested in giving them a whirl I'll keep you a few to trial. BUT they're not seed potatoes I've bred them myself, they have been grown in open ground, (although it was clean ground, previously just grass) they were a healthy crop until struck with late blight.
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Sowing in March will give a crop in the Autumn, I still find it quite bizarre a tiny seed can grow to a cropping plant in a season :happy7:
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To be honest I don't remember the foliage standing out that much one way or the other, then it was cut down with blight mid August. I cooked some alongside PFA and thought they were gorgeous and certainly held their own, plus I love the length and look of them, others may not agree. I'm pretty sure I've still have a small secret stash left to eat, if you are interested in giving them a whirl I'll keep you a few to trial. BUT they're not seed potatoes I've bred them myself, they have been grown in open ground, (although it was clean ground, previously just grass) they were a healthy crop until struck with late blight.
:D Goodness me no! I couldn't possibly steal from your secret stash! ;) So, thanks anyway JayB. Its a lovely offer, but I'd much rather you enjoy them. After all, you already earned them. :)