tigerburnie wrote:Tasting fine is something I am looking to better, I'll take my chances with the blight and go for taste.
I think we may be at cross purposes. I thought your question about being interested in how they taste was related to since they got blight.
Hence my answer they tasted fine, by that I obviously meant the ones that are stored as seemingly uninfected
Taking your question as actually meaning how do they taste in general terms they taste quite strong. They roast, chip, mash & bake well.
Assuming the top growth has not died back earlier they can be left to harvest as a late main or dug after about 20 weeks.
They can produce some quite large tubers ideal for decent size chips
Although the Sarpo range of potatoes have become more well known in recent times this variety was first introduced 15 years ago
I suspect that like their cousins the tomato some will show signs of rotting in store post harvesting.
Given that we lost all tomatoes and some Sarpo Mira to blight I am thinking of disinfecting the areas they were planted with diluted Jeyes fluid.
May not do any good but I'll give it a go as cant see it doing any harm.