Marforna potatoes

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Devil's advocate

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Posh side of Barnsley

• Sep 25, 2020

• #1

Marforna's grow like a weed, but so prone to going hollow, so we chuck the big uns out.

At wholesale market today & looking so some big bakers for a customer & saw this beutiful sample so bought a box, got them home & feck me Marforna.

Market full of over size whites, dirt cheap.

So how do they grow a large Marforna without them going hollow?

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

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Lincolnshire

• Sep 25, 2020

• #2

I've always considered margins to be in the "sh!t" category for potato from a cooking pov.

 

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welger

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derbyshire

• Sep 25, 2020

• #3

Devil's advocate said:

Marforna's grow like a weed, but so prone to going hollow, so we chuck the big uns out.

At wholesale market today & looking so some big bakers for a customer & saw this beutiful sample so bought a box, got them home & feck me Marforna.

Market full of over size whites, dirt cheap.

So how do they grow a large Marforna without them going hollow?

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We have had 35 years growing them .we get very big ones hallow weight wise 5lb +.not many tho .the others are ok.let me know when You have mastered it

 

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Posh side of Barnsley

• Sep 25, 2020

• #4

teslacoils said:

I've always considered margins to be in the "sh!t" category for potato from a cooking pov.

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Marforna's eat well

 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Sep 25, 2020

• #5

Autocorrect has changed marfona to margins. I've never found them a decent culinary potato, apart from maybe mashing if I can't get anything else. Even for baking they are only average.

 

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welger

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derbyshire

• Sep 25, 2020

• #6

teslacoils said:

Autocorrect has changed marfona to margins. I've never found them a decent culinary potato, apart from maybe mashing if I can't get anything else. Even for baking they are only average.

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We get on with them very well.we sell up to 20 acres every year at the door .they do everything and don’t boil down.we have grown all sorts at the side of them and we all way sell out of them first.they don’t suit everyone to grow them know of some growers can’t,soil type and bad for slugs

 

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DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Sep 26, 2020

• #7

I quite like Marfona. They aren’t as dry as some so make a nice baker. Slug damage was a drawback here. Picasso was another that went big and hollow here. Stemster were the best all rounder on our ground for roadside trade.

 

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DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer

Location

Lincolnshire

• Sep 26, 2020

• #8

We grew Cara in the early days. My cousin reckoned you could see the steam cloud rising above the processing plant when he took a load in as they were mostly water!!

 

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marshfarmer

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Location

Norfolk

• Sep 26, 2020

• #9

Lovely to grow. Mine aren't that big this year as marfona go. Chucked two suspected hollows out of 20t bagged so far. Had lots of hollow hearts first couple of years, but I manage the spacing better now during planting. Market isn't there for me to grow too many but they always do me well.

 

Bogweevil

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• Sep 26, 2020

• #10

Marfona supposed to be drought resistant, but I have never found them so.

 

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Devil's advocate

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Posh side of Barnsley

• Sep 26, 2020

• #11

We like Maintou as a good all rounder. Slugs like them too.

We have a secret red, a numbered variety. Amazing for chips, jackets & roasting, a decent average for boiling. Loads to root but smaller than we would like, still bulking though cara type tops. Oddly slugs not keen on them.

Used to like Wilja in the marforna slot, I think seed is still available?

 

Exfarmer

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Bury St Edmunds

• Sep 26, 2020

• #12

I have grown Marfona in the garden for the first time this year and I swear they are the very best potato I have ever grown for roasting or Sauteeing , my wife loves them and I know it is going to cost me dear, when she finds a bag of them, as my waistline will suffer!

 

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marshfarmer

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Norfolk

• Sep 26, 2020

• #13

Exfarmer said:

I have grown Marfona in the garden for the first time this year and I swear they are the very best potato I have ever grown for roasting or Sauteeing , my wife loves them and I know it is going to cost me dear, when she finds a bag of them, as my waistline will suffer!

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£5 plus postage

 

hollister

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Alcester, warks

• Sep 26, 2020

• #14

We've have raving feedback for the marfona from this year. Bake really well.