Lesley Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 ......potatoes! - grown by my grandchildren! I gave them, and my neice and nephew, a seed potato each for Easter.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 fabulous! such a beautiful colour.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chickpea Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 oooh what variety are they? We always joke about growing only exclusively purple produce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Gorgeous . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 wow are they purple on the inside too that would be cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Ooooo wow. Just imagine purple mash! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Gorgeous Lesley I have given up on taters, they always get blight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Ooh they look fab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I think these were on Something for the weekend quite a while ago, I think they made purple mash! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 wow are they purple on the inside too that would be cathy x no thier the wrong colour for salad blue and far to 'clean' skin wise and they are the wrong shape for congo and to early I think they might be Blue Danube but I'm more than likly wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 I thought they were Vitelotte but they are white fleshed and not purple I'll have to have a look at the Potato Day list and see what they might be We boiled them over a campfire and the skin colour disappeared and they went grey - I think they keep their colour better if you steam them. I will be growing Vitelotte next year though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I thought they were Vitelotte but they are white fleshed and not purple I'll have to have a look at the Potato Day list and see what they might be We boiled them over a campfire and the skin colour disappeared and they went grey - I think they keep their colour better if you steam them. I will be growing Vitelotte next year though. thier not vitelotte again wrong shape and a bit early was it Ryton's potato day by any chance if so then they could be shetland Black but they look a bit modern So I'll stick with blue danube. but you have given me an idea to try blue danube next year as a 2nd early if thats what it is as I'd not expect it to be ready to harvest yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 Yes, from Ryton, they're the one potato we didn't write down and I remembered looking at Vitelette and Edzell Blue. I don't even know if they're FE, SE or M but grandchildren decided they had to come out NOW!!! I've just found the list......... I think they're Edzell Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Yes, from Ryton, they're the one potato we didn't write down and I remembered looking at Vitelette and Edzell Blue. I don't even know if they're FE, SE or M but grandchildren decided they had to come out NOW!!! I've just found the list......... I think they're Edzell Blue I didn't see Vitelette on the Sunday unless they were mini tubers they don't look right for Edzell Blue(SE) thats Round with sunken eyes and very white flesh it's also one of my favorite spuds the best early masher it's not impossible that tubers got put in the wrong box through I got court last year at another potato day with a wrongly named variety brough what I throught was one of the best true salad spuds both taste and yield it was neither a salad or a good cropper. binned the harvest from all 3 plants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 30, 2011 Author Share Posted June 30, 2011 Oh, that's a shame when you've waited for a crop to be ready. We were at Potato Day on the Saturday so it could have been a taster pack but I don't think so......looking at images it may be Blue Danube as you said.......but I can't remember if the flowers were blue The rest of the potatoes were planted late and aren't flowering yet so I'll keep an eye on them and report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stehaggan Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 mmmmmm they look really gooooood. we grew some blue fleshed ones and red fleshed ones last year. They looked really funky but very strange as chips - they looked burnt even though they weren't and the whole psychology thing of a potato should look like a potato made me not enjoy them as much lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Very Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 mmmmmm they look really gooooood. we grew some blue fleshed ones and red fleshed ones last year. They looked really funky but very strange as chips - they looked burnt even though they weren't and the whole psychology thing of a potato should look like a potato made me not enjoy them as much lol the 'burnt' look is how chips used to look before a certain fast food outlet moved into this country seling pale looking french fries made from Russet Burbank potaoes (one of the best chipping spuds there is) white skined spuds fry a golden colour red skined spuds fry to a brown colour blue and purple do the same it's to do with the chemicals that make up the colour that I can never remember the name of that make coloued fruit and veg good for you as for the red and blue spuds not looking like spuds there are quite alot of coloured fleshed spuds that grow naturaly in Puru apparently you see lots of them in the markets over there. but from my point of view at dish each of red white blue and yellow mashed potato on a diplay is a crowed stopper gets folk talking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 mmmmmm they look really gooooood. we grew some blue fleshed ones and red fleshed ones last year. They looked really funky but very strange as chips - they looked burnt even though they weren't and the whole psychology thing of a potato should look like a potato made me not enjoy them as much lol the 'burnt' look is how chips used to look before a certain fast food outlet moved into this country seling pale looking french fries made from Russet Burbank potaoes (one of the best chipping spuds there is) white skined spuds fry a golden colour red skined spuds fry to a brown colour blue and purple do the same it's to do with the chemicals that make up the colour that I can never remember the name of that make coloued fruit and veg good for you as for the red and blue spuds not looking like spuds there are quite alot of coloured fleshed spuds that grow naturaly in Puru apparently you see lots of them in the markets over there. but from my point of view at dish each of red white blue and yellow mashed potato on a diplay is a crowed stopper gets folk talking Lesley I'm not sure Blue Danube flowers and I can't keep and eye on mine as untill I start to dig them up I want know were they are in the bed and all my main crop spuds have finished flowering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 1, 2011 Author Share Posted July 1, 2011 Google Images show this.... I'm very that I can't remember the colour of the flowers - they've been in bags by the back door since April. I went to the compost heap to see if any of the flowers showed but they'd all shrivelled beyond recognition. It will be a while before my own are big enough to flower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 they are a good match for yours. it'll be the end of the month middle of August before I lift the main crop spuds for the show the 1st's and 2nd's will start next week by the look of things on the plot this evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stehaggan Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Ive mixed all my bags up - i cant rememeber what is in each one as i had to move them about when building the apiary - should i just pull them when the flowers die down? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Ive mixed all my bags up - i cant rememeber what is in each one as i had to move them about when building the apiary - should i just pull them when the flowers die down? did you plant a mix of first second a main crop or just earlies if just earlies then if they've been planted 10+ weeks then knock one out ant see if the tubers are the size you want but don't knock the lot out in one go unless they have died off and set the skins loose skined ie new potatoes don't keep very long ignore the flowers they have no bearing on the tubers. I've had late main crop spuds flowering before earlies this year they were planted in some cases at the same time and later in others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted July 2, 2011 Author Share Posted July 2, 2011 Our maincrops have been in flower for a while - Valor and Maris Piper - but the FEs and SEs heaven't flowered but we've been lifting them for a couple of weeks, Annabelle, Lady Christl and we've just started the Kestrels which are superb! Bambino - Early Main - aren't flowering either. I'd have a rootle and see how they are doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
