Potatoes - Diversity Website
I've put the more relevant stuff at the top of the page, and other things lower down.
FAVOURITE POTATOES
(in progress; many more to appear here)
Anya .. Arran Pilot .. Argos .. Bambino .. Bleu Auvergne .. Blue Belle .. British Queen .. Cabaret .. Catriona .. Charlotte .. Cherry Belle .. Claret .. Congo .. Cosmos .. Desiree .. Duke of York .. Dunbar .. Dunluce Elite .. Edgecote Purple .. Edzell Blue .. Epicure .. Flourball .. Golden Wonder .. Highland Burgundy Red .. Harlequin .. Heather .. Home Guard .. Isle of Bute .. Isle of Jura .. Jersey Royal .. Kerr's Pink .. Kestrel .. King Edward and Red King Edward .. Linzer Delicatesse .. Majestic .. Mandel .. Maris Piper .. Mayan Gold .. Mayan Twilight .. Mimi .. Moulin Rouge .. Nadine .. Odenwald Blaue .. Orion .. Orla .. Osprey .. Pentland Dell .. Pentland Hawk .. Picasso .. Pink Fir Apple.. Premiere .. Puritan .. Record .. Red Duke of York .. Red Laure .. Remarka .. Rocket .. Romano .. Rooster.. Roseval .. Royal Kidney .. Ryecroft Purple .. Salad Blue.. Sarpo Una.. Sarpo Mira.. Sarpo Axona .. Saxon .. Sharpe's Express .. Shetland Black .. Smile.. Swift .. Ulster Chieftain .. Ulster Prince .. Up-to-Date .. Valor .. Verity .. Victoria .. White Lady .. Winston .. Wilja .. Yetholm Gypsy .. Yukon Gold ..
New potatoes grown this year (2009): Mayan Twilight, Ryecroft Purple, Edgecote Purple, Blue Belle, Harlequin.
NEWS - I've heard of a new blight-proof potato: SETANTA. Watch out for it.
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GROWING
Chitting
Growing Potatoes - guidance from 1897
Growing maincrop potatoes (based on Beeton, 1890)
Growing in a no-dig bed
Growing in pots
Growing in pots - continued
Growing in barrels
Growing from true seed and getting new varieties
Preparing seed potatoes (Loudon, 1854).
Early Potatoes in Frames (Beeton, 1890)
Storing Potatoes
PICTURES
Tubers, table, 3 pages
Tubers, pictures listed by name
Flowers, table, 3 pages
Flowers, pictures listed by name
Blight -recognising on leaves
DISEASES & PESTS
Blight - intro
Blight -recognising on leaves
Blight -treating in a garden
Blight - League Table of varieties
Blight-proof & resistant varieties
Blight - using Bordeaux Mixture : 1948
Blight -Bordeaux Mixture, contd. : 1948
Slugs
Viruses -intro (Large, 1940).
Viruses - why tuber-grown potatoes degenerate (Large, 1940).
FLOWERS
Potato Flowers, table, 3 pages
Potato Flowers, pictures listed by name
COOKING
Boiling, Steaming, Mashing
Waxy, Floury, Multi
Introduction
Hash Browns
Examples of waxy, floury, multi
Common cooking mistakes
Cooking Qualities of specific varieties - see list at top of page
GENETICS
Colour of potato flowers and tubers
Genetically modified (antibiotic-resistant) potatoes
Genetics:
Intro
Flower
Skin
Flesh
Shape
An interesting cross
Chimeras
HISTORICAL
Early days of the potato: Loudon, 1847
English Potatoes available in 1847
Irish potatoes in the 1700s
Potatoes in the 1600s
Early potatoes in England (Loudon, 1857).
How this website started
PUBLISHED INFORMATION ON POTATOES
Books on Potatoes
Grow It: info
website
SELLING
Supermarkets - how some of them help our Farmers
TUBERS
Tubers, table, 3 pages
Tubers, pictures listed by name
VARIETIES
Top Ten potatoes, UK, 1992.
Coloured Varieties
Alan Gemmell's favourites
Blight-proof potatoes? - the Sárpo
Blight-proof Sárpo: the story continues...
Blight-proof potatoes - the most resistant varieties
Nadine - the all-purpose potato
BREEDERS
Jack Dunnett
BLOGS
Iain Barbour's potato blog
ENTERTAINMENT
ALPHABETICAL INDEX PAGE
BBC Radio 4: Gardeners' Question Time
Jane Galloway's Potato Show
