stored pink fir apple

[hesperis2000]

i dug my remaining pink fir apple potatoes the other day- having just left them where they grew and was surprised to see no damage whatsoever, no sprouting- they tasted like 'new' !.
i knew pink fir kept well but  is this unusual ?
am i liable to get a different result in future years?- ie all eaten and pestilence ?
anybody had different experience?

[hesperis2000]

[tim]

Had they been lifted in October, they would still taste 'new' now. In the ground? Never tried it!

[Lottieluvva]

I grow Pink Fir every year and have tried both storing them in potato sacks in the cellar (brilliant) and leaving them in the ground (also very good).  I have grown the following year's crop from the stored ones ( haven't bought new seed potatoes for Pink Fir for about five years).  Some currently chitting in the back bedroom.
Don't know if this helps!

[hesperis2000]

thanks lottieluvva- thats just what i wanted to know
one less thing to buy now- i'll just use my own tubers this year- excellent !

[philcooper]

and Ratte keeps its flavour even better!!

Leaving them in the ground makes them susceptible to slugs and in the dark moist/wet soil they are harder to spot than in the drier conditions in Autumn

Phil

[BAGGY]

Dug ours up last weekend - did not realise they were still there.  Must have missed half a row amongst the weeds !
will save some for this year though having read the above

[djbrenton]

Unbelievably, one of our members ( who's had an allotment since 1951) has just dug his last Charlotte up. Hardly any damage there either!

PS - I don't mean his last Charlotte EVER, or at least I hope I don't.