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Hiya folks, i don't suppose anyone out there knows where i can buy these Sarpo Mira potatoes? I may have mispelt the name, so bear with me, i'd heard that they offer good resistance from the dreaded blight, so i thought it may be worth a shot. If there are any other varieties that you know are worthwhile, please feel free to comment.  :) Andy Pandy

You can get them online from e.g. Alan Roman's

http://www.alanromans.com/p-1892-sarpo-mira.aspx

but delivery costs are pretty high unless you are buying several kilos of seed potatoes.

Thompson & Morgan and the Organic Catalogue also sell them.


You might take a look at Pomeroy for another late main, or an earlier crop that stores well like Vivaldi (very expensive) is meant to.

hi
t&m sell them
              5rod

T & M do a 'Blight Busters' pack, 6 varieties including Sarpo Mira and Axona. 


http://potatoes.thompson-morgan.com/list/resists-blight

Got meself a 120 tuber pack coming after this year's disaster...... :)

Ours had blight this year!

According to Alan Romans, Mira is now the most blight resistant potato available, BUT that does not mean that it is immune to blight. They may well get blight in a very bad blight year, such as this year has been.
I have been growing Axona ever since the testing trials, some five years ago, and it never got blight till this year! I just hope that this was not due to a new strain of blight. I will see how it does this year.

Nadine is Resistant To:-
                Blight
                Scab
                Eelworm
Good yeilds, disease resistance to Golden Potato Cyst Nematode.
Good for boiling and general purpose

Second Earlies

www. Kingsseeds.co.uk
               

Not growing maincrop next season, after the difficulties this, and the last 3 previous years. (28 yrs. w/o any probs).
As for the Sarpo varieties, they are as exciting as a f**t in a spacesuit.
They taste the same as well.
Enjoy!
:P :P

Thankyou very much to all that replied, you are a welcome mine of information, and i may have a chance of keeping more thn a handful of potatoes this year.    ;D Andy

Quote from: telboy on December 14, 2007, 20:11:17
Not growing maincrop next season, after the difficulties this, and the last 3 previous years. (28 yrs. w/o any probs).
As for the Sarpo varieties, they are as exciting as a f**t in a spacesuit.
They taste the same as well.
Enjoy!
:P :P

Agreed, we tried the two Sarpo varieties when they were launched.  They did indeed seem to be blight resistant, but pretty boring and tasteless.

I'll take boring and tasteless over nothing at all, I've never found supermarket spuds to be exciting either.  :)

I've also heard that they get tastier if you leave them in the ground for longer than usual, although having never grown them I can't confirm......

Rob,
Another problem is the tops can stand into November.
If you have heavy soil, digging them up can be a real pain.
:(

Yes you can leave them a long time, but they tend to get hollow inside and rather tough - that's both Axona and Mira.

I found Mira was attractive to the dreaded slugs - you just can't win can you!  :'(