potato identification

[grotbag]

Hi, I chitted up belle de fontenay and charlotte, but come planting time couldnt remember which was which, now they are flowering 1 has white ,1 has purplish flowers any ideas which is which.

[grotbag]

[saddad]

Looked them both up in Alan Wilson's the story of the potato but it doesn't say, Belle has short and spreading foliage and if not yet planted a distinct bend in the tubers, Charlotte is more oval? Any help?
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[mc55]

Grotbag, my trays got mixed up just before planting so I don't know which are my pentland javelin and which are my desiree.  I did think that maybe my pj's would arrive before my d's, but no they've both arrived together and are the same height ... sigh

has anyone got any top tips for identifying them ?

[growmore]

Charlotte has mid green glossy leaves..So I think thye wil be your white flowers..cheers ..Jim

[growmore]

Hi MC55,  Your desiree willl have a bluey green leaf... its a red skinned  variety ..Your pentland javelin will have an all green  leaf ..It's a white skinned potatoe .... cheers Jim

[amphibian]

Belle de Fontenay flower.

[amphibian]

Desiree

[mc55]

thanks guys - glad you know your stuff.

[saddad]

I went to Potato day at Ryton this year, and one bag of ten tubers we brought back hadn't got the name scrawled on it, so it is in the ground as Scooby's spuds!
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