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Piebald potatoes?

Started by artichoke, June 11, 2012, 08:45:42

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artichoke

I was recently given a bag of supermarket potatoes, very striking in appearance, with no name attached.

They are hens egg size, basically red like Desiree, but every eye has a pale yellow/white kidney shaped patch around it.

Does anyone know what this is? The flavour is of a good new potato. I am thinking of putting a few into the ground to see what happens.

artichoke


artichoke

Talking to myself: have found that they are called "Smile".....

http://www.jerseyplantsdirect.com/potatoes-smile-1-kg


claybasket

 Our supermarket had a similar small potato, they had a larger creamy patch there name was Apache ;D

artichoke

I have to say, looking at Google images for "Apache" that they look absolutely identical!

Jayb

They do look good, glad to hear they are tasty  :)
http://varieties.potato.org.uk/display_description.php?variety_name=Apache
I think I have a few planted if they have survived the waterlogging  :(
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chriscross1966

I tried growing Smile once.... they weren't very productive under conditions that other potatoes seemed to thrive in....

Jeannine

We grew some last year that were marked like orca beans, half blacky/blue and half white, they were really odd.  XX Jeannine
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