Potato varieties

[gardening-gal]

I'm down south and I love floury potatoes :P

[gardening-gal]

[Barnowl]

Running test this year:

First Early
Lady Christl - waxy
Winston - Early baker
Second Early
Anya (less knobbly Pink Fir cross) - nutty salad, will chip/roast
Charlotte - high yield waxy salad
Vivaldi - allegedly low carb
Early Main
Belle de Fontenay (salad)
Mayan Gold -  (no good for boiling)
Salad Blue - (high dry matter so actually good for roasting)
Late Main
Rooster -
Pink Fir -
Pomeroy - replaced with Verity due to Irish crop problem

Lots of others I would have liked to have tried but had to draw the line somewhere.  I suspect some are a bit too pricey to become staples.

[Deb P]

Last year was my first on my plot, and the first time I had grown potatoes in the ground. I bought WAY too many of loads of different types to see what grew well, and the whole lot got blight fairly early like most people! Best were Mayan Gold and Anya for taste. I had grown quite a few maincrop thinking that I would have plenty to store, but of course the blight meant early culling and lower yields.

This year I am being a bit more restrained! As my plot is now pretty much fully restored, space is at a premium, so I've decided to plant mostly 1st and 2nd earles in order to have the space to plant later crops in the same beds. I have got a couple of early maincrops which I'll either grow in pots or at home..

1st earlies:
Arran Pilot
Epicure
Witchhill

2nd earlies:
Charlotte
Shetland Black
Yukon Gold (bought as couldn't get hold of Mayan Gold... :(

Early maincrop:
Belle de Fontenay
Salad Blue

[barkingdog]

I like to try new varieties each year, so this year I have

Orla
BF15
Fleur Pelcher
Kepplestone Kidney
Pentland Squire
Arran Victory (I grew these a couple of year's ago - lovely mash  ;D )

Any feedback on these would be good!

barkingdog

[jennym]

I like Anya, which suits me better than PFA because they come out a bit bigger and with less knobbles and the taste is still good, Kestrel which is reasonable when it comes to slugs, and Red Duke of York for same reason and excellent taste.
Was not impressed with taste of Maris Peer & Maris Piper last year, when chatting to others on the site I was surprised to realise that they agreed with this, there must be something in our soil said one.

[Fran]

We always got a lot of slug damage to our potatoes, especially to the spuds left longer in the ground.  Last year we used Nemaslug slug control and it made a big difference, slug damage was much reduced.  We have ordered some for this year already.

[rbull]

My plot is on relatively poor, dry (on average, but last summer was different) chalky soil on the N Downs in Surrey.  Definitely not ideal for potatoes, and Desiree seems to be the only reliable variety that copes.

Does anybody else have any tried and tested suggestions for those conditions?