Super market Maris Piper potatoes being mislabled

I have a small veg plot so no space to grow main crops. I do however plant one row of pink fir apple they are excellent. 1st earliest in containers in greenhouse went in early Feb so shoots now level with tops of bags. Swift, Foremost and some others.
Before I sorted my garden out I grew main crops in a 1000 kg bulk bag 1/3 full of soil and manure. V easy to keep watered good yields!
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I buy 25kg sacks of washed reds and I find them great for just about everything spuddy.
The ones I am most disappointed with, however, are the packs of supermarket baking potatoes which are watery and bland when cooked. Not sure of the type of sound, but not great.
I used to grow Piper,and Navan which is a Piper cross,so always try to get them in supermarkets,but had some reds from Aldi that cooked like Desiree and were delicious.
 
Socks & Croccs is so very wrong!

K
Yes, indeed, they belong in a birthing unit or on some guy with a big belly and a T-shirt that’s no longer big enough for him ……waiting for a McDonald’s family meal . They smell of sweat and stale alcohol.
Socks and Birkenstock go hand in hand with someone eating a bowl of fresh fruit covered musli …whilst waiting to take their homemade bread out of the wood fired bread oven. They smell of fresh wild flowers 🌺
Kindest regards, Olaf
 
Love the dazzling socks!
Thank you . My girlfriends mum knit’s them from Merino wool or sheep wool depending on what’s on offer when she stocks up on knitting ammo. She’s like a knitting machine ! Everyone knows what they will be getting off her for Christmas or their birthday. But they are always a surprise pattern and colours 😃
Kindest regards, Olaf
 
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Not sure what direction you are local to Berwick upon Tweed.
But Tilmouth Farm, about 7 miles out heading towards cornhill sells potatoes direct from the farm. £10 for a 20kg bag. cuts out the middle man and you know what your getting. 01289 382482 is the number to see if they have what your looking for beforehand.
Cheers for that, I grow my own and love Red Duke of York spuds but ran out in January, I'm up just North of Alnwick this weekend to go to the caravan and to look at a new farm for vermin control so I'll go a little further up the road and buy a sack of spuds whilst up there.
 
Yes, indeed, they belong in a birthing unit or on some guy with a big belly and a T-shirt that’s no longer big enough for him ……waiting for a McDonald’s family meal . They smell of sweat and stale alcohol.
Socks and Birkenstock go hand in hand with someone eating a bowl of fresh fruit covered musli …whilst waiting to take their homemade bread out of the wood fired bread oven. They smell of fresh wild flowers 🌺
Kindest regards, Olaf
I stand corrected and suitably reprimanded.

K
 
Are all the Jersey pots. really from Jersey these days?

In the early 70s I took time out from Blacksmithing to help at a local potato/veg/fruit delivery company.
Fruit and veg. shops would buy a few bags of whichever spuds on the waggon mostly and some would ask for King Edwards.
Chippies, on the other hand would ask for a couple of bags and try them, then if okay they would ask for as many bags as they could handle.
Much of the time it was Whites that were the preferred spud for chipping.
KB.
According to James Martins cookery program yesterday Jersey Royals are only grown on Jersey. There was a grower on the program.
Haven't looked at what google says.
 
According to James Martins cookery program yesterday Jersey Royals are only grown on Jersey. There was a grower on the program.
Haven't looked at what google says.

International Kidneys can be grown anywhere but only called Jersey Royals when grown on Jersey

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Made roasties this evening. Used Morrisons Maris piper and appeared good. The supplier was not Angus.
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