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Potatoes - round or kidney??

ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
in Fruit & veg
Sorry if this is a really daft post! I've just had the schedule for this year's village flower and veg show and I'm determined to enter something, but the whole thing scares me a bit. I know there are specific ways of showing different flowers and veg but it seems to be shrouded in mystery. It has different classes for, "Potatoes - round" and "Potatoes - kidney" and I have no idea what that means. Apart from International Kidney I don't know any spuds with a clue in the name. I'm growing Charlotte - which do look kidney shaped rather than round - will they count as kidney? 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ask the organisers?  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Or ask someone else in the village who shows regularly ... most old-handers are only too willing to give a bit of advice to newbies ... they know that without new people the shows will die out. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ItalophileItalophile Posts: 1,731
    edited July 2018
    This, technically, is a kidney-shaped spud. 



    They have weird and wonderful names for potato shapes here in Italy. This shape's name is derived from "rene", Italian for kidney.

    I suspect they mean "round" and "non-round" but, as with the good advice above, ask them. 
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