The Tastiest Potatoes to Grow
We are often asked "What are the tastiest potatoes to grow?"
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What are the tastiest potatoes to grow? We are asked this so often and it is such a subjective question and it is always hard to recommend a few varieties. It really depends on how you like to eat your potatoes. The three types are Floury, Waxy and smooth. As a general rule, most potatoes tend to fall into one of two categories; floury or waxy.
Waxy potatoes hold their shape and have a firm bite, so they’re great for salads or simply boiled and dressed with butter. Floury potatoes, on the other hand, fluff up when they’re cooked, making them perfect for chips, roast potatoes or baking. But there are varieties that fall in the centre, holding both waxy and firm qualities and these are defined as smooth. These make great all-rounders, and tend to have the creamy consistency needed for a smooth mash.
Five tastiest Potatoes for you to grow
Getting away from supermarket varieties is one of the joys of growing your own vegetables.
A very tasty potato – Cara
Cara
Gardeners love Cara for its high levels of resistance to drought, blight, common scab and viruses. One of the best hardy growers, the tubers are white and round with shallow pink eyes. In the kitchen they are good for baking and chipping.
Cara Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
One of the tastiest Potatoes – Casablanca
Casablanca
Chefs and cooks will love the versatility of the potato Casablanca. Good for all uses from boiling and chipping to mash and roasting.
This potato variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit because it has proved to be reliable in appropriate conditions and a good performing plant. For more information on RHS Award of Garden Merit plants visit .rhs.org.uk/plants
Casablanca Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00
One of the tastiest Potatoes – great for baking
Edzell Blue
A blue skinned and white fleshed potato which produces great flavoured and vibrant dishes in the kitchen when baked, mashed and fried due to its floury nature. Many of our favourite potatoes are old heritage varieties – these may be slightly more prone to diseases but have stood the test of time for a reason. That reason is taste.
This is one of Andrew’s favourites and served almost every Christmas as our centrepiece.
This variety is listed in the Ark of Taste. This project strives to draw attention to the products and the history behind them, inspiring people to take action to protect them.
Grandma grows these every year!
Pink Fir Apple
Well known novelty variety with long and knobbly tubers. Most people who don’t know potatoes varieties know the Pink Fir Apple. A firm white flesh surrounded by pink tinged skin. Waxy variety is always a delight to pull out of the ground and brightens any salad to get the conversation going.
This potato variety has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit because it has proved to be reliable in appropriate conditions and a good performing plant. For more information on RHS Award of Garden Merit plants visit .rhs.org.uk/plants
Pink Fir Apple Seed Potatoes
Price range: £7.40 through £62.00
One of the tastiest Blue Potatoes – Salad Blue
Salad Blue
Blue through and through – and makes great chips, crisps, mash and a colourful salad. Blue skins and blue flesh make this a very popular novelty potato. But there is more to the 1900s crop, a gentle flavour and good texture make this floury potato popular with chefs.
Our daughter loves Salad Blue purely as it is blue – she hates pink!
Salad Blue Seed Potatoes
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Cara Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00Casablanca Seed Potatoes Organic
Price range: £6.80 through £56.00Pink Fir Apple Seed Potatoes
Price range: £7.40 through £62.00Salad Blue Seed Potatoes
£7.00 This list is just some suggestions for you - and shows that there is no right or wrong way to pick your potato! We have an entire page for the best roast potato to grow! Do you agree or disagree with this list? We would love to hear about your favourites on our Facebook page. Whichever potato you grow will be the best and will taste far better than any bought from a shop and growing your own allows you to try many varieties not widely available to buy for consumption.
Grow Bags
Price range: £5.60 through £6.85We as a family are so lucky that we get to try so many different varieties and this list is in no way definitive and it does change! You can browse our entire collection by cooking type to find something to suit. We have lots of information to help you chose which potato to grow, as well as a great FAQ on how to grow potatoes. We are here to help at any time with your potato questions.
