I know quite a few people got them, how did they go? Do they taste good? Did they flower?
Mine are still in the ground I was late planting them and I was waiting for them all to flower but only one plant has perhaps these ones don't normally flower?
I grew mine in a bag. Judging by the number of small ones I probably harvested too early. Only tried them boiled and we thought they were a good flavour and texture.
Nothing special. Can't remember flowers. Probably!
we go a good amount, goldeny colour and tasted good, waxy :)
think they flowered ???
Mine are in flower as we planted late, they are purple.
We've had a few- white and tasty!
Quote from: caroline7758 on July 18, 2008, 18:37:24
We've had a few- white and tasty!
Will you be planting these next year in replace of something else?
Might do, they were free this year and I haven't dug any others yet, so will decide at theend of the season.
only noticed two of mine in flower. Dug up one plant, smallish potatoes, but quite tasty.
no flower, only 2 or 3 salad type potatoes in the buckets. But only opened a few so far.
Dug first lot today, still in flower, basic spud, not a wow taste, but nice, I grew them because I got a few bags given but I prefery Charlottes so I wouldn't choose them next year. unless they show themselves to be good keepers etc as the season goes on.
XX Jeannine
Comparison picks of yields on my Blog http://vortexs-veg-patch.blogspot.com/.
Whilst there yield is comparable to other earlies they don't boil well - they split , and their taste is nothing special. The Mayan Gold however were much better, even if I did pull them a couple of weeks early.
i finally sampled mine. Strange colour when cooked sort of greenish yellow (don't worry they weren't green to start with) wondered if that was the reason for the name. Quite a good yield but rather uneven shaped potatoes and not an exciting flavour. Like Jeannine I prefer Charlotte or it's other parent Maris peer.
Had good yield, planted in buckets. Tended to break down when boiled so used them mainly for mash, no real taste, however , as they were freebies why worry! Would no grow them unless they were once again given away :D
We did a taste test last week, comparing them to Orla. They're marginally sweeter, but with Orla apparently being "blight resistant" , the VE weren't so much better that you'd choose them.