The best potatoes.

The best potatoes - Telegraph: Sarah Raven picks her favourite best varieties of potato.
Earlies:
International Kidney (waxy)
Good for forcing early in bags, with good flavour and dense, waxy texture.
Belle De Fontenay (waxy)
A classic, French salad potato, with smooth, firm, waxy, yellow flesh and excellent taste, ideal for salad and boiling.
Winston (floury)
The earliest potato to give you whoppers with a good flavour and crumbly, floury texture, excellent for baking, chips or mash. A quick and early cropper.
The promise Large, evenly sized tubers. Creamy, moist flesh of excellent flavour.
Our result
Flavour and flesh Lovely.
Yield 3lb 12oz.
Condition A few had a touch of scab.
Texture Midway between waxy and floury so ideal for boiling, mash or baked.
Storing Said to be good.
Will I grow it again? Yes, my early potato of choice. Next year I will try two lots, some as tiny, very early new potatoes in May and some larger in June.
Second Earlies 'Anya'
The promise 'Desiree' × 'Pink Fir Apple'. A nutty flavour with a creamy flesh and smoother tubers than 'Pink Fir'.
Our result
Flavour and flesh Fantastic, 'Pink Fir Apple' taste and texture, but three times as healthy and quick producing.
Yield 1lb 5oz.
Condition Perfect.
Texture Very, very waxy.
Storing OK.
Will I grow it again? Yes definitely, one of the best salad potatoes.

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French potatoes: you say spud, I say pomme de terre.

French potatoes: you say spud, I say pomme de terre - Telegraph:
French flavour
What’s so special about French potatoes? As with most French food, the emphasis is on flavour – varieties simply don’t last long if they don’t taste good. Heft and disease resistance come a very distant second.It’s also partly cultural – potatoes are seen as a bright, pleasurable presence on the plate rather than edible ballast, something to fill up on, and the popular French varieties reflect that.
Potatoes divide semi-tidily into two camps: the early, largely salad varieties, and the later, often flourier types.
The first camp accounts for 80 per cent or more of my potato patch, largely because they perform as if someone listened to all our gardening whinges and invented early potatoes in response.
They give you the most flavour and the finest texture, and you get them cheaply: shop-bought earlies can be wildly expensive and the flavour of home-grown salad potatoes eaten soon after lifting is – as with asparagus, sweetcorn and peas – of a different order to even the best you can buy.
More importantly, growing your own gives you access to the most delicious varieties, largely not available in the shops.
Earlies are largely trouble-free too, being planted, grown and harvested before midsummer when the warm weather that encourages blight arrives.
Once potatoes are lifted, the space is freed in time to plant out courgettes, squash or whateveryou fancy to take its place. In short, growing predominantly earlies gives you the best of all potato worlds.
Thanks to Jean, I’m growing even more French varieties alongside ‘International Kidney’, ‘Foremost’ and other British earlies. And there is no need for any concern about how they might perform on this side of the Channel. Many have been developed and are commonly grown in high-altitude areas of France, making them well suited to our typically cool and rainy climate.

Planted potatoes.

Sharpes Express
heritage potatoes
JUN - First Early


Charlotte
JUL - Second early


Arran Pilot
RHS Award
JUN - First Early

Wilja
JUL- Second Early

посажено раньше - Anya
cross between Desiree and Pink Fir Apple
Second Early


купить Vivaldi - Low on carbohydrates and calories – the potato for slimmers

The British Potato Variety Database

Огород в городе - Выращивание картофеля на балконе.

Огород в городе - Выращивание картофеля на балконе:

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Varieties I’m Trying in 2014.

Cylindra Beetroot UK
Leeks - Musselburgh, Hannibal
Potatoes - Maincrop potato varieties, such as Maris Piper

Clearing an Allotment Plot Without Rotovating.

Clearing an Allotment Plot Without Rotovating | Real Men Sow:

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How to Plant a Sweet Potatoe Vine | eHow.com

How to Plant a Sweet Potatoe Vine | eHow.com:

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Sweet potato.

Hort Answers: Sweet potato (University of Illinois Extension)

Bounty from a North London Allotment Gardenista

Bounty from a North London Allotment Gardenista:

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Allotment. Огород.

Contemporary Landscape design by Other Metro Architect Carolina Katz + Paula Nuñez

Eclectic Exterior design by Boston Landscape Architect Natalie DeNormandie

Ptown in Arlington - eclectic - exterior - boston - Natalie DeNormandie:
Click these links for growing guides for each variety:
Popular and easy to grow in fall and spring: beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, chard, kale, lettuces, leeks, peas, radishes and spinach.

For the connoisseur: arugula, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, collards, endive, fennel, garlic, onions, parsnips, salad greens and turnips.

Surprising cool-season crops: including asparagus, potatoes and rhubarb. Yes, they are often thought of and grown in the summer, but they prefer the cooler temperatures of spring and fall.
How To!
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Vertical Allotments – what’s the cost?

Vertical Allotments – what’s the cost?: "Comparison with Allotments A survey in 2008 / 2009 found that allotment holders spent an average of £202 a year, and worked 203 hours to maintain a 300 square yard plot. The average yield worked out as nearly double mine at £1564 a year.  Based on my figures, this shows that an allotment produces double the return per hour invested. However, these figures don’t take into account the time spent travelling to an allotment (significant in some areas) or the benefits of having food growing at home and being able to harvest it just as you need it."

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Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: {

Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: {How To} : TipNut.com:

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How to start an allotment

River Cottage - Features - How to start an allotment - Channel 4: "Can I blag any freebies to get me started? Some of the more generous seed suppliers may offer you samples as an incentive and you can always look into joining your local Seed Exchange - a swap shop for seeds, seedlings and invaluable know-how between allotment keepers. Here are a few seed swap links: www.seedypeople.co.uk www.growfruitandveg.co.uk www.overthegardengate.co.uk"

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My allotment.

Мой огород сегодня.

Вот так растет ревень в темноте. Часть мы уже съели.

Он не выглядит столь мощным как хотелось бы.
Возможно потому, что он посажен только первый год.

Sandy soils. Grow suitable crops.

Good vegetable crops for sandy soils will include all of
- the carrots,
- beetroot,
- radishes,
- parsnips,
- garlic and
- the early salad crops of lettuce and the like.

Potatoes early crops are ok, but maincrop potatoes will need added bulky manures to keep the soil moisture levels high for good production.

Brassicas generally, runner beans (Early French Beans are ok) Celery, and Rhubarb are best not grown on sandy vegetable plot soils. They all need too much regular moisture for suitable growth.

What to grow in your allotment.

What to grow in your allotment - Times Online:

carrots
cabbage
calabrese
potatoes
quick-growing salads

cold frame: Try beans
peas,
radishes,
onions,
salad leaves
beetroot.

- need lots of watering:
Courgettes,
tomatoes,
squashes and
pumpkins