Marforna potatoes

[Devil's advocate]

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]

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

 

[welger]

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?

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

 

[Devil's advocate]

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

please translate

Marforna's eat well

 

[teslacoils]

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.

 

[welger]

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.

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

 

[DrWazzock]

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.

 

[DrWazzock]

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!!

 

[marshfarmer]

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]

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

 

[Devil's advocate]

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]

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!

 

[marshfarmer]

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!

£5 plus postage

 

[hollister]

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