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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: adamhill100 on July 05, 2004, 09:42:47
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Although I promised to give my Potatoes another week before I started to dig them.. I gave into temptation and ended up digging 4 plants to use for sunday dinner...Is my first real taste of my labours and what a difference in taste! Am I ever going to be able to eat Potatoes bought from a supermarket again?
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Had they not been nice, it would not necessarily have been your fault. We have ditched most of a row of Red Duke of York as being sub-standard. = Tim
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Thats a real shame! I must say that I was slightly dissapointed with the amount of Potatoes for each plant... Not really sure what I expected.! The taste did make up for it though.
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Tim, I must admit that I have been dissapointed with our Red Duke of York. They look stunning but they don't seem to cook so well, I think they'll only be good for mash really. The tops have gone over as well, I don't think that they really came back after the wind the other week. Are they generally a tasty potato? I hope so as I have a late crop coming along in pots.
The Nicola are much better, they are an improvement on the shop bought.
Adam, how many are you feeding? 1 plant is sufficient for 3 of us.
Jeremy
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My Red DoY (from Tim :-*) were delicious. The tastiest potatoes I have ever eaten (my first ever homegrown ones). All 3onces of them, that is!
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DB - yes - &, like so many reds, pest resistant. But NOT blight resistant!! Forgot to repeat that we had already taken the haulms off the RDY because of early blight. Like 2 June!! = Tim
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Jeremy,
I would say that one plant is not really enough for 2 people...Although I was told to wait until the flowers have died until I dig them. So maybe a week or so will see a larger tuber..
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Our RDoY are a bit piddly, so I stopped digging them and started on the Catriona, now they are a good cropper and mightly tasty! Some did go a bit flourery in boiling, but the majority stayed firm and creamy and there was more than enough for 4 of us from one plant! Guess I should see what the RDoY are doing - they are all still growing well, even though I haven't watered at all!
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I haven't had any flowers off my RDoY, just buds, which have been there time enough for the other varieties to bud and flower.
I dug my first ones too early and was dissappointed with the quantitiy, waited a few weeks and there are lots now. I planted at the end of March (probably ???) and have only been digging the last 3 weeks or so.
Jeremy
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Flowers??
They really don't seem to tell you anything about earlies. If you look back on my 'what do you expect' thing, there was hardly a flower in sight.
What I want to know is - how do the things grow at all when the soil is like this a spit down?? We should really be more amazed that we get anything? = Tim
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Tim - think yourself lucky - mine is worse than that from the top. That's why I'm so very grateful for Mr Aqui and his strong digging arms!
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Didn't say what I meant - that is the top lot!!
But, since some say that they get moisture from a spit down, I checked.
Just like this lot. Except for one end where it is solid yellow clay. = Tim.
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My RDoY went to my mother's - didn't get a chance to taste, but think she was happy with them.
Finished all the first earlies now. Going to wait a week or so before starting on the second earlies.
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Don't they go quickly?? = Tim
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My first earlies have all been eaten - delicious. I generously gave a goodly amount to son and wife. His wife was amazed that I could pull spuds up! Also surprised that they were dirty. She's from Seoul (Korea) and is not a country girl! She came round yesterday and dug up her own dinner - probably amazing her relatives with the story!!! Apparently, some Koreans believe that spuds grow on trees.
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Ha ha... I wonder how many kids nowadays actually know where most Veg come from.! I am sure my kids think meat is grown in Cellophane Wrap.
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Chuckle - try some of the housing estates in Leeds!
Walking down the road with a barrowload of new potatoes - and had a furious argument with neighbours' kids. They would NOT believe that I'd dug the potatoes out of the ground.
My one mistake - making them taste some of the other veg in the barrow-load. For months afterwards, they'd hang around on a Sunday afternoon, and "hijack" whatever else I was bringing home!
All best - Gavin
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I dug about 7 plants of each and this is what I turned out.
(http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0PgAAAEcSWDaRMsC12JoQcXIjC4*wWO06a*W!8KjAyDtcaBrVAOr9mxQV8nBmyEa95X4dgIp2kQwOUJaZvQ20cPoNbgRdS3Qs/spuds0.jpg?dc=4675479849693078255)
Shan't bother with RDoY next year - very low yeild compared to the catriona next to it, and the Pentland Javelin, well, I would say almost 4 times as many as that whole tray in a similar area !
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all of my seed potatoes (about 5 varieties in all) got mixed up by my son so I just chucked them into the ground. I have no idea what are earlies or mains etc. but I have now started to dig them up working down the rows and so far they are gorgeous although I only get one meal from each plant.
Does anyone know if this is a problem - can mains be eaten as new potatoes? Storing is not going to be a problem as I only have 3 rows so they will all be eaten long before the winter!
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Hi everyone,got my catrionas out of the soil and they look great,have 25 kg so that must be enough for the moment.Now i have towait for my arran victory,pink fir and violett noir.I cant wait till they are ready especially violett noir that is a dark pink almost black potato and strange enough the inside of the potato is also pinkish,must be a strange side on your plate.
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For Emma-Jane - that's a pity about your Red Duke of York! They were beautiful potatoes - far and away one of my favourites on our old plot; but soils, and micro-climates, and all.
I actually bought Jersey Royal new pots - several times in the last month. Eeeeeh - it did me good to hear the kids slag them off, as tasteless, watery monsters, compared to the RDoY we grew ourselves!
Never mind - lots more to try!
All best - Gavin
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Have just started digging up my spuds ( my first ever crop of my first ever attempt at growing stuff) and what a difference in taste to the spuds out the supermarket.
mine may not have been perfect shape & size (some were really tiddly!!) but they were absolutely gorgeous flavour!!! Now the only problem I have is trying not to raid the lottie on a daily basis for the spuds.
as a side benefit of the spuds they ain't half helped clear their area of weeds (especially bind weed) so next year I plan on planting a larger area with spuds