pot....tatoes

einstein

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Location
Rutland
thinking of growing some early spuds in a polytunnel I have....hope to be very early thanks to fleece and poly.
I have some 10 litre pots and some spare compost. Just wondering if any particular variety is suited to this.
Flavour is everything although obvs I want some yield aswell.
TIA nick
 

Bogweevil

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thinking of growing some early spuds in a polytunnel I have....hope to be very early thanks to fleece and poly.
I have some 10 litre pots and some spare compost. Just wondering if any particular variety is suited to this.
Flavour is everything although obvs I want some yield aswell.
TIA nick

Reckon pot grown spuds flavour deficient compared to soil grown ones, but each/own. Divaa has good texture/flavour.
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
The best way to choose is to look through a list of varieties that have the characteristics you're looking for and pick a couple of varieties. Some people want small, waxy, salad type potatoes as earlies, but I'd rather have dry, floury varieties that have to be steamed or they fall apart, even if they take longer to grow.
 
To get yield tie them up like runner beans to get maximum light intervention plus no mould disease due to better ventilation.
Work at Dundee on main crop doing this got them 100 tons per acre. 250t/ha
 

SRRC

Member
Location
West Somerset
Rocket are seriously early, they just grow at any time regardless. BUT, they have no taste, very prone to splitting, liable to groundkeepers and are generally bad news.
Peer are reliable and versatile but really only a second early.
Try something like Swift, white skin, white flesh, good taste, first early. If you defoliate a day before lifting any splitting is minimised.
 
What market are you aiming for and what area?

Best return is directly into farm shops for the very early “new potato” market.

In which case you want one of the older varieties like Aaron Pilot or something similar.
 

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