New Potato Varieties

New to us, that is. Our potatoes for 2012 have arrived, and are now sitting in egg boxes in the study, chitting.

We ordered 1.5kg of each of:

• Lady Christl: extra early. We really liked this, last year, and it yielded very well.
• Red Duke of York: early. New to us, but the yield is meant to be good, and I like having at least one red variety.
• Pentland Javelin: early. Not tried it before, but, again, meant to be a good yielder.
• Cara: maincrop. Druid, which we were impressed by last year, we couldn't get, but Cara's very similar.

We're going to maintain the spacings from last year for the earlies, but use the bigger spacing we trialled with Druid for the maincrop Cara. With Druid, doubling the space more than doubled the yield, which we were very happy with, so hopefully the same will apply.