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Potatoes: Flowers, Varieties, Qualities

(and how to cook them... )

Books on Potatoes BBC Radio 4
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Question Time
Grow It: info
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PICTURES
Blight -recognising on leaves
Flowers, table, 3 pages
Flowers, pictures listed by name
Tubers, table, 3 pages
Tubers, pictures listed by name


INFORMATION
Alan Gemmell's favourite varieties
Archibald Findlay, potato breeder (1841-1921)
Blackleg - a bacterial disease
Blight - intro
Blight - more about it
Blight -how to treat, in a garden
Blight -Bordeaux Mixture : 1948
Blight -Bordeaux Mixture, contd. : 1948
Blight - League Table of varieties
Blight-proof potatoes? - the Sárpo
Blight-proof Sárpo: the story continues...
Blight-proof potatoes - the most resistant varieties
Blight warnings & Smith Periods
Chimeras
Chips
Chitting
Crisps
Crisps - choosing the right potato
Coloured Varieties
Cooking Quality - intro
Cooking Qualities of specific varieties - see list below
Colour of potato flowers and tubers
Early days of the potato: Loudon, 1847
English Potatoes available in 1847
Genetically modified (antibiotic-resistant) potatoes
Genetics: Intro Flower Skin Flesh Shape An interesting cross
Growing Potatoes - guidance from 1897
Growing in a no-dig bed
Growing in pots, instructions step by step
Growing in pots, but which varieties should I grow?
Growing in containers for variety
Growing in pots - some experiments
Growing potatoes from true seed and getting new varieties
Irish potatoes in the 1700s
Jack Dunnett, potato breeder
Jane Galloway's Potato Show
Nadine - the all-purpose potato
Potatoes in the 1600s
Seed potatoes, preparing (Loudon, 1854).
Top Ten potatoes, UK, 1992.
Smith Periods & Blight Warnings
Supermarkets - how some of them help our Farmers
Sweet Potatoes
Viruses -intro (Large, 1940).
Viruses - why tuber-grown potatoes degenerate (Large, 1940).
William Paterson (1810-1870), potato breeder

FAVOURITE POTATOES
(in progress; many more to appear here)
Amour .. Anya .. Arran Comrade .. Arran Pilot .. Arran Victory .. Argos .. Bambino .. BF 15 .. Bleu Auvergne .. Blue Belle .. Blue Kestrel .. British Queen .. Cabaret .. Catriona .. Charlotte .. Cherry Belle .. Claret .. Congo .. Cosmos .. Desiree .. Duke of York .. Dunluce Elite .. Edgecote Purple .. Edzell Blue .. Epicure .. Flourball .. Forty-Fold .. Golden Wonder .. Harmony .. 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 Peer .. Maris Piper .. Markie .. Marfona .. Mayan Gold .. Mayan Queen .. Mayan Twilight .. Myatt's Ashleaf .. Mimi .. Moulin Rouge .. Nadine .. Negresse .. 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 .. Sarpo Blue Danube .. Saxon .. Setanta .. Sharpe's Express .. Sherine .. Shetland Black .. Smile.. Stemster.. Swift .. Ulster Chieftain .. Ulster Prince .. Up-to-Date .. Valor .. Verity .. Victoria .. Vitelotte .. White Lady .. Winston .. Wilja .. Yetholm Gypsy .. Yukon Gold ..

OTHERS:
Annabelle .. Bintje .. Bonnie .. Dunbar Rover .. Kepplestone Kidney .. Mr. Bresee .. Purple Eyed Seedling .. Skerry Blue ..

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