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Red 'Rooster' Potatoes
Jonesk
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in Fruit & veg
This year in my new vegetable raised beds (very exciting!) I plan on trying some 1st early potatoes and some maincrop.
I love cooking with the red 'Rooster' potatoes from late summer/autumn. Particularly as these roast so well.
Can anyone recommend any varieties. Do I plant these at the time advised for maincrop potatoes?
Many thanks in advance
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If you don't know what your soil or area is like, I recommend the Sarpo range. They are blight resistant. The blue danube is a really good roaster.
Fantastic, thanks fidget.
popping to the garden centre this week so will see what they have in otherwise I'll look at mail order.
I got the Sarpo range from D T brown. They delivered in four days.
I did have a blue skinned potato from a heritage range by Alan Roman. They were dreadful at boiling but made the best ever roasty, just by peeling, rolling in oil, a little sea salt and then roasting . The insides were fluffy, the outsides crispy but not greasy. Unfortunately I can't remember the name, and Alan Roman appears to have given up his potatoes through ill health. He had a fantastic range that he would sell by the tuber.
Get your seed potatoes now for chipping, then plant all of them at the end of March. (Midlands). Adjust a week either way for North or South.
I will be planting my sister in Laws near Snowdon(Wet Wales) at Easter.