Growing top notch Marforna

[Devil's advocate]

How do you grow top qualty Marforna potatoes?

As the Man said, "
Well I would not start here"

Yes I should have had them planted earlier & should have got them treated with Rhino powder.

But what else? we can sell them, but quite hard to grow prone to been hollow & the slugs love'em.

I've planted at 10 inch spacing & intend to give them a foliar leaf feed at tuber initation to get as many tubers as possible, have gone easy on the fertiliser but will top up if required (ie lots of rain causing leaching) Little & often with the slug pellets & on standby to dessicate when required.

 

[Badshot]

No idea how to grow them, but I have to say my local grocer sells Kentish grown marfona and they are without doubt the best tats I have ever cooked with and eaten.
They do everything exceedingly well.

 

[ridger]

How do you grow top qualty Marforna potatoes?

As the Man said, "
Well I would not start here"

Yes I should have had them planted earlier & should have got them treated with Rhino powder.

But what else? we can sell them, but quite hard to grow prone to been hollow & the slugs love'em.

I've planted at 10 inch spacing & intend to give them a foliar leaf feed at tuber initation to get as many tubers as possible, have gone easy on the fertiliser but will top up if required (ie lots of rain causing leaching) Little & often with the slug pellets & on standby to dessicate when required.

Which foliar feed would give more numbers? I have to plant at no more than 8 inches to get numbers

 

[Devil's advocate]

Which foliar feed would give more numbers? I have to plant at no more than 8 inches to get numbers

Yara claim to offer a product that can help increase numbers

 

[chaffcutter]

We trialled a product years ago to increase tuber numbers, basically a sugar solution!

Still rate Wilja as the best all purpose potato though, very popular locally.

 

[AndrewB]

Which foliar feed would give more numbers? I have to plant at no more than 8 inches to get numbers

I always apply hi phos, (5l / Ha ) at tuber initiation with the blight spray . Seed and salad crops

 

[Devil's advocate]

Which foliar feed would give more numbers? I have to plant at no more than 8 inches to get numbers

We used nearly 2 ton/acre at 10 inch, 32 inch rows. Home saved seed, which is normal for us, 50% new, 50% once grown.

 

[Devil's advocate]

We trialled a product years ago to increase tuber numbers, basically a sugar solution!

Still rate Wilja as the best all purpose potato though, very popular locally.

We like Wilja, but prefer Kondor which has the same parents as Wilja, oddly a red not a white.

 

[ridger]

We used nearly 2 ton/acre at 10 inch, 32 inch rows. Home saved seed, which is normal for us, 50% new, 50% once grown.

Must be big seed?

 

[Devil's advocate]

Must be big seed?

Not much small seed in them. We have a reekie that was set up for russet burbanks & has oversize. cups. Plus an old Faun with really small cups.