I have just returned from a visit to the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. The chap in charge of the double-walled veg garden always experiments with different varieties and I was interested to see how the Sarpo Una had done. He wasn't there but someone else told me that he had had terrible problems with blight this year, and by the look of it the Sarpo Una had suffered like all the other varieties as the their stumps look just as bad as the rest.
Anyone else growing any Sarpo varieties and, if so, how have they done?
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Hello,
I have not grown any Sarpo varieties...but out of interest the last of my crop to succumb to the blight this season was Ambo..
Merlin also held out fairly well.
Clive.
I have not grown any Sarpo varieties...but out of interest the last of my crop to succumb to the blight this season was Ambo..
Merlin also held out fairly well.
Clive.
We grow Sarpo Mira and they look very healthy, in fact they are the only variety which is flowering. Anya has succumbed to blight, Kestrel looks a bit iffy, but Lady Balfour and Sarpo Mira are o.k. - as yet. Both Anya and Kestrel crop underground are good and healthy, though.
Ditto. Sarpo Axona sitting next to blighted potatoes and they're so far fine. I split my potatoes up a bit and so far the Pink Fir apple haven't got blight, which surprised me. If they do that's curtains because they're s main crop.