favourite potatoe

Ones without an e.

an emigrant ?

George W. Bush would be impressed with your spelling.

Are you Dan Quayle?

Jersey Royal, although they ain't what they used to be, as they've had to stop putting seaweed on the soil during the growing process.
It was the seaweed that gave them their unique and delicious taste. H&S or something like that?.
Spent some time working in Ireland a few years ago, everywhere I went the potatoes were delicious, boiled, chipped, roast etc..
they were Dublin Queens variety, unobtainable outside Ireland I believe.

The Dublin Queens potatoes are known as British Queens over here. Didn't know that!

God I'd forgotten all about Quayle and his loony quotes:

'I stand by all the misstatements I've made'

And no I'm not him btw.

Sorry KKD, I was referring to BITO
Quayle is remembered for his misspelling of "potato" when addressing a group of schoolchildren.

Oh right I thought it was Bush, hence my earlier post.

Anyway great minds and all that.

Spud Murphy

Juliette

The last two or three lots of Jersey's have been bitter.  Including some we brought back on the ferry!

Picasso - best variety for baked potatoes.

nb - By the way the Jersey Royal EU seaweed ban is a complete myth.

You say potatoe, I say potato

Didn't mention the EU, Blackbarn.
Apparently they are grown mostly under plastic to start, ensuring an early crop. Farmers use much less seaweed because of the cost and time of the year. They tend to plant earlier, using plastic as prevention against frost... although they don't get much of that on Jersey!

potatoes are the devil's spawn!!!

Kerr Pink's.

I don't have any particular favourite and grow different varieties each year.
For new potatoes, freshness is all. This is the problem with shop bought as the special flavour dissipates with time.
For waxy salad type, Charlotte is hard to beat and for main-crop the principal criterion for me is that they don't dissolve into slurry during boiling. Can't go wrong with King Edward, Majestic or Desiree.

Estima great for mash or baked. The rest the usual watery shíte..

A short story..

My ex hated spuds. Couldn't stand the smell - feel never mind the taste. Never ate chips or anything; but lived on cheese & onion crisps?

Funny folk is wimmin..

Kerrs Pinks for me also

Purple Majesty , taste great and you can make purple mash .

I grow my own spuds, and have 1 or 2 small rows (12ft?) of International Kidney. They don't keep well, in or out of the ground,
hence the small amount I plant. They're the same variety as grown on Jersey.
Have some Charlottes as well, not much else this year though, was a very wet spring here.

Charlotte for the taste.
Golden Wonder of you can get them - all the crisp companies snap them up.
they fry quicker than any potato I've seen. half the time.

I try and look and see if the potato is yellow. White potatoes are tasteless.

Tesco is selling a red potato just know, peel into it - deep yellow.
they are £2 a bag - tesco finest. I got them reduced(cheap skate).

Them Tesco red 'uns would be Desiree, Zoz. Very popular and versatile.

My old dad always used to swear by Arran Pilot.

Wasn't sure if you could still get 'em, but I have just read this:

Arran pilot is one of the most popular first early potato varieties amongst amateur gardeners and this has been the situation for 30 years or so.

There is no doubt that this variety has a very short shelf life, ten days at the most. But when eaten within a couple of days after they are dug up the flavour is supreme, quite delicious. That is the best way to cultivate this variety so only grow as many as you can eat almost immediately they are harvested. A lot is published about the taste of Jersey Royals but Arran Pilot can on many soils equal or surpass that flavour.

maris piper is the best i agree with you

My favourite potato is either the King Edward as it's named after the father of George V, or the new one named after Prince Harry, the James Hewitt.

We never buy Maris Piper, they break up in the water when you boil them for twenty of their minutes.

Reverse Cowgirl

The best new potato is Ulster Prince,they have that wonderful new potato taste .Not easy to find because they dont keep well at all.

I am a home grown potato expert!

I grow them all the year round. In the greenhouse during the winter months.

I put four inches of compost in a bucket and place three chits of sprouting potato on top, then cover with another four inches of compost.

Use water dear Henry.

When the plants are well through I put another four inches of compost on to stop the potatoes going green.

Admittedly this is not rocket science. But then rocket science will not help you to grow potatoes.

There is a first early variety called Rocket, Dr C.
I grew it once and it did produce tubers remarkably early. The only trouble was that slugs enjoyed them more than I did.

MARVELLOUS SPUDS GARDENERYS!

Dara O Briain

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there's a hole in Mrs Bouquet

Is that the name of your  blowup female friend?

blows herself up Asif

Dear Lisa

Used to look forward to the Jersey Royals but as, someone said, they have been nothing special for years now!

I did feel that the last couple of years they were an improvement, but this year I just paid a premium price for some washed baby ones,
and any other baby potatoes would be just the same!

Everybody used to look forward to Jersey pots, they had a fabulous taste. Housewives could be regularly heard asking the shop-keeper "when are the Jerseys out". You had to be quick, they soon sold out and the season seemed fairly short. When the Jersys ran out you had the Lincolnshire new pots to look forward to, which were lovely, but not as good as Jerseys.

For over 25 years I've bought just one poundof Jerseys a year, hoping that they'd recovered their glorious taste, but they never have.

covered in butter and mint Kenny yum yum!

No, actually Tel, covered in grilled bacon fat. Deliicious. Mum used to say, do you want some "dip?". Northern word?

I know, forgot the blush face.

I too am growing my own in 6 bags but I'm embarrassed to say I never took a note of what variety I planted. One is a first early, Charlotte I think. I will plant more first earlies in a couple of weeks for Autumn use.

Right after Jerseys came the Pembrokeshire 'Puffins', they were enjoyed at Buckingham Palace according to the blurb

Always felt Marris Pipers are hugely overrated, they make Ok roast potatoes because they crisp up well but don't have that much flavour and fall apart too easily to be a good boiling spud. For me, Pink Fir Apples if I fancy a waxy salad potato and Sainsbury's Vivaldi potatoes for baking and everything else.

Jerseys fresh out of the ground and bought from farmers who still use seaweed are UNBEATABLE

Since this has developed into a growing thread too....

This year I am growing...
First Earlies - Lady Christl
Second Earlies - Marfona
Main Crop - Picasso

I like Pink Fir Apple already mentioned.   Ratte is very good too (apologies if someone beat me to it)

Some recent Jersey Royals were almost as good as I remember them. Over the years they must have exported thousands of tons of the soil with them - wonder if that's part of the reason. Do they import soil?

With respect I don't believe that. I got my usual pound and they were as bland as they've been for the last 25 years. It's not the soil, it's the plastic covering.

blackbarn will be along to correct me shortly.

The Jersey Royal king years ago stopped his daughter marrying Des Lynam because he was a common tata.




I'll get me jacket.

Maybe they've secretly restarted putting night soil on them - to give them that indefinable something once again.

You never, never know.