Potato Varieties

 Hi all,

We just spent a few weeks on holiday's in the north of Italy and amoungst
other things foody discovered small cigar shaped potatos that were quite
delicious so I am trying to locate the same in Australia if possible.
The tubors were white skinned, around 10 cm long and 4cm thick, quite
twisted and uneven, and they have white to cream coloured flesh that is more
dense and solid than any I have eaten before - very nice indeed.
I am not sure of their variety name but as they were freely available at the
markets and supermarkets they must be a common crop over there.

Does anyone know the name of these little beauties and / or a seed potato
supplier in aus that has unusual varieties and a mail order service?
A long shot I know but the collective knowledge of the group is my best
shot.

Cheers
CT



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amoungst

possible.

is more

The only ones that I can think of that (sort of) fit that description
because the physical description is right but the colour is not right
(but may be if you are trying to distinguish them from say a red
skinned spud) are Kipflers (I wouldn't call them white skinned -more a
dun colour).  Kipfler is a salad potato and is disgusting roasted
(some dozy Chef at a very expensive restaurant I went to clearly
didn't know his bloody spuds and how they should be used).

 Farm1 wrote:


Ditto, We obtained our seed stock years ago from diggers club in
Melbourne. They are the only one of five varieties that have kept on
growing year after year. Warning, sieve soil with fine mesh after
digging because even little 5mm spuds will resprout.

 Terryc wrote:

Are they those dark purple ones? I got some of those from the
organic/gourmet spud guy (Josephs) at Fyshwick Markets years ago, didn't eat
them all in time and put the sprouting ones in the ground. decades later
they are flourishing, producing good crops every year. and yes, they are
awful baked, they go sort of weird and sugary.

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 ant wrote:


that is another one.

We had

pink eye; which has pink around the eyes,
the one in the vege shop (round, light tan) d???
and a couple of others. Might have had the purple one.

I think our problem is that our soil was still crap.
After years of feeding cow/mushroom/chicken compost to the soil, we
finally pulled out a nice big Kipler (15cm x8cm) recently.

So I am tempted to retry some of the unsuccessful ones, especially if
the above ground bin we planted a few weeks ago goes great.

The problem with our soil is the the previous owner had clorinated above
ground pool, which he dumped onto the soil each winter (it saved
cleaning all winter as it was under a gum tree. After years of adding
organis matter, we are finally getting good stuff back.