One of our plotholders gave me a couple of Valor potatoes to try today, I baked one and it was lovely. She said they got a very heavy crop off them and all the potatoes were a decent size, the ones she gave me were about 12oz each.
Does anyone here grow them? I think I will next year.
I have grown them in the past and they are excellent.
I grew them this year. Taste good baked, but they weren't as big as the Pentland Dell's which also tasted good. Will be growing both next year on my new plot cos I'd like to find a reliable nice biggie for baking.
I have grown Valor for 3 years now and am very pleased with them, very good baker and make lovely chips ( I don't deep fry but cook in oven) and I have found them to store very well so I will continue growing them.
Good to hear that they store well Next year my plan is to grow them back to back with Pentland Dell (which did well on my old plot), Setanta (good taste, disease resistant, wish thye were a fraction bigger) and Kestrel (cos lots of people seem to go on about it, and seeing as there's a potato/seed swap day organised by my local allotmnent association that's barely 400 yards from where I live I might well put in an experimental row and you can guarnatee at least half of that will be bakers .....
chrisc
Quote from: realfood on October 20, 2010, 19:11:28
I have grown them in the past and they are excellent.
Thanks for the recommendation/suggestion. Never grown them, seems we missed out.
Quote from: chriscross1966 on October 21, 2010, 02:11:29
I grew them this year. Taste good baked, but they weren't as big as the Pentland Dell's which also tasted good. Will be growing both next year on my new plot cos I'd like to find a reliable nice biggie for baking.
I've tried 'Winston' this year and will be growing them again next year, have had some huge bakers! Oh, and they taste good too! ;D