Allotment and Vegetable Gardening

As the spuds come up, undoubtedly members will want to post their results. It may be useful to keep them all in one spot, rather than have numerous threads all over the place.

So please post here. Please keep it brief, (as below) as with any replies, so that we don't end up not seeing the wood for the trees.

For a change, please keep this on topic! I will keep an eye on things and may just be tempted to press the "edit" or "delete" buttons now & then!

My results so far...

Swift (First Early). Average yield, slugs like them
Pentland Javelin (First Early). Very good yield, few slug holes
Charlotte (Second Early). Excellent yield, no slug holes.
Kestrel (Second Early). Excellent yield, some very large spuds. No slug holes

Charlotte (First Earlies), small container grown (!), very good crop (14 new potatoes per 14" flower pot), excellent consistency of spud size, no blemishes. Will definitely be growing these in beds next year. (I had the seed potatoes knocking around, nowhere to plant them, so thought what the hell, and put em in some spare pots. Result!)

Pentland Javelin (First Early). Very good yield, no slug holes up to 1.6Kg yield after 12 weeks. Comment: An excellent all round potato, served as new, mashed, roasted or surprisingly superb chips!

Charlotte (Second Early). Excellent yield, no slug holes. Massive fan of this spud. Great waxy taste, consistently good performer. First on my list!

Desiree (Main Crop) Early days, as only just dug first one up. Will report later.

1st earlies Vale Emerald decent yield out of tubs and bags, no blemishes no slug holes. Lovely when steamed.

2nd earlies Charlottes as above good yield in tubs and bags, no blemishes no slugs lovely spuds.

maincrop to follow.

Foremost.  Excellent crop ruined by slugs.

Kestrel (2nd Early) - Planted mid April, Excellent yield (6.5lb from the 2 I dug up 3 days ago), almost 20 spuds of a very good size, only 1 with slug damage.

Charlotte                  good yield, lovely spud no slug damage,    2nds dug first
Red Duke of york      poor yield, seemed to slough off a layer when boiled, no slug damage
                                1sts dug third.
Vivaldi                       big yield, great taste and some big enough for jkts, no slug damage
                                 2nds or early maincrop
All planted on 17th March and all gone
Hunter maincrop still in tubs........will add results later

Good idea, DD!  Might be useful if people could note soil type as well, maybe?

I'm on clay, and planted Dunluce, Desiree and Anya this year.  Results so far:

Dunluce - bit scabby but no slug holes; average yield; floury, falls apart a bit when boiled but good and crispy when roasted; average taste - not bad but I wouldn't shout about it.

Adding in the other two now I've dug them up:

Desiree - good yield, a bit of scab but not as much as the Dunluce.  Seems to be a good all-round potato, reasonably tasty but didn't knock my socks off.  Main problem seems to be that the few really huge potatoes were miles away from the stems so I put my fork through all of them... 

Anya - really poor yield, and what was there was mostly either rotten or eaten by slugs.  I got about one small usable potato from each seed potato!  The taste seems to be good, though, and they're an interesting shape.  I might give them a go in a compost bag next year but I don't think I'll be growing them in the ground again.