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Crotte D’our

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Fingerling

Also known as Blue Fingerling because of it’s shape, this heirloom potato from Quebec (1850’s) is very firm fleshed, dense potato with good flavour and storage. We eat our last ones in November 2010 from a September 2009 harvest.

$5.95

5 tubers

Salad Blue

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With deep blue skin and flesh that almost appears purple, here is another potato to brighten your table and your favorite potato salad. A family favorite for making awesome French Fries or Oven Fries. Abundant yields of medium sized oblong tubers.

First grown in Scotland in 1900's, Salad Blue is very blue. The skin and flesh are both a strong, deep blue. The potato is not a salad potato - it has high dry matter and fries and mashes well but it does not boil well because it is fluffy and disintegrates. Flavour is mild although texture is quite good. The blue pigment is an anthocyanin. It is an antioxidant, and Nutritionalists say antioxidants provide many health benefits, including protection against cancer and other diseases. Makes great novelty blue mash.

$5.95

5 tubers

Black Mignion

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A heritage variety also known as the Cups, has been grown since the 1870’s. A red skinned white fleshed potato that boils well and is great for potato salads. Definitely one of the best varieties that we grow, both in terms of taste and yield. Late variety

$5.95

5 tubers

Forty Fold

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Fortyfold is the oldest culinary British variety still available. It dates from around 1800 and was described as an "old type" in Victorian literature. It is thought to have come from the North West of England and had some publicity as being the original potato used in Lancashire hotpot and lobscouse, the Liverpool equivalent. The variety is a tall, vigorous late maincrop with huge yields of round tubers of all sizes splashed with mauve. They have a high food value with an interesting good nutty flavour, unlike anything today. I thrill to think that this was a variety known to Nelson's sailors and Wellington's troops.

$5.95

10 tubers

La Ratte

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Fingerling

Discovered in the Swiss Alps by French Farmer Jean Pierre Clot, the La Ratte fingerling has a rich and chest-nutty flavor and has long been a favorite of fine chefs. Wonderfully smooth and creamy when pureed yet maintains a firm texture when cooked. Mid to late season variety.

$5.95

10 tubers

Skerry Blue

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This is an old, late maincrop from Ireland which pre-dates the famine of 1845. It is low yielding but of the highest quality with very high dry matter. Its short oval tubers have blue skin with cream coloured, floury flesh. It is important historically because it is said to be the only variety with enough blight resistance to grow in the famine years. Unfortunately,during the famine, very few possessed tubers because everyone relied on high-yielding Lumpers . Does well here and is a great eater! Very rare.

$5.95

5 tubers

Quebec

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If we held a potato beauty contest, this one would be the number one challenger for top place. A long oval potato with white flesh and a vibrantly coloured skin of light ochre with large splashes and blotches of bright dark rose. Relatively smooth and of really good cooking quality boiled. Very rare.

$5.95

5 tubers

Nicola

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Nicola is a beautiful golden yellow inside and out potato that works well for boiling, mashing, and roasting along with a unique nutty potato taste. This is a waxy type potato that makes it great for salads too. When baked, this potato's excellent taste can stand alone without adding the extra condiments and is becoming one of our favourites. Shows resistance to scab.

Close grown Nicola have become popular in recent decades to supply the demand for small, firm, waxy salad/boiling potatoes with flavour. Nicola is yellow fleshed, eelworm resistant and grows long if given space. It used to be blight resistant but recent strains have changed this - Our is slightly resistant. Many new varieties are "designed" for Nicola's niche but usually lack the flavour.

$5.95

10 tubers

Houma

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A great high yielding yellow skinned, white fleshed potato from the USA (dating from 1936). Good flavour for general use.

$5.95

10 tubers

Desire

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The most popular "red" potato in Europe. Round to oblong tubers, satin-like pinkish/red skin and gourmet quality creamy-yellow flesh. Prolific yields of excellent all-around cooking potatoes. Very resistant to common diseases. An easy and very reliable gourmet potato to grow.

Hold the yield record of all our potatoes: 6 lbs a plant grown by R.P. in Harrop in 2010.

$5.95

10 tubers