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Sainsbury introducing a new variety

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We grew some purple potatoes but for the life of me I can't remember what they were called, but they were not very good at all, they were difficult to harvest as they were so dark that we could not see them against the soil and when we cooked them they dissolved into the water.

Next year we want to grow Estima, as we have been buying them recently and they have been really tasty. Has anyone else grown tasty potatoes that they can recommend for next year, please!!

Catherine. Can recommend "WILJA" been growing them for years, you can chip' roast,bake,mash. In fact anything.

Thanks Shallot Man I will look out for them next year. Are they main crop?

Catherine. Second Early. But I plant them as early as possible, then keep digging up as required.

Catherine. As an afterthought, combine them with ESTIMA , and you are on a winner.

I've been growing Salad Blue for a few years now. It is not a salad potato, but makes a nice blue/purple mash and when done as jacket potatoes or boiled in their skins they keep their colour well. The flavour is good too. It probably makes blue chips, but I haven't tried them. I usually make potato wedges in the oven instead of chips as I've chucked my chip pan out.

The other I like for coloured mash is Highland Burgundy Red this makes lovely deep pink mash and has a slightly sweet very pleasant taste. This would also make interesting chips and is very productive too.

Alan Romans sells them and probably T & M

Orion also has a good flavour and makes incredibly smooth mash.
Fortyfold has a lovely nutty flavour and extremely high yields of fairly small tubers.

You can't go wrong with Desiree, Marfona and Kestrel too.


Yukon Gold is a large yellow baker with a lovely buttery flavour, but only low yields but is worth a try.


I always grow Charlotte for an early new potato/salad type and Sarpo Axona for a blight resistant large very good keeper. Also makes great mash with its high dry matter - doesn't go soggy and watery.

Should go well with a big slice of Frankensalmon

I fancy trying to grow some coloured spuds, maybe salad blue, but I don't fancy Frankensalmon!

A friend of mine who is a very patriotic Englishman had himself a supper of Red,White and Blue chips with fish,using Salad Blue,Highland Burgandy and Maris Piper. Okay,the colour tint wasnt exactly true but who cares,its the thought that counts. I quite like the taste and texture of all three varities myself.

I just don't fancy all these coloured vegetables at all. Purple carrots, cauliflowers, beans, potatoes, orange/yellow beetroot or whatever! Call me a stick in the mud but I give me the traditional varieties every time.
Cheers.

Thank you for all the suggestions, will have to give some of these a try, I don't see them locally but I could send away for them.

John P wrote:A friend of mine who is a very patriotic Englishman had himself a supper of Red,White and Blue chips....

Just as well he wasn't a patriotic Welshman - the green potatoes would have done him no good at all!