Potatoes - King Edward & Red King Edward
Tall, thick haulms, a little less vigorous than PICASSO. Susceptible to blight; about 3 on blight scale, but its flavour is renowned and outstanding. I used to work on a small mixed farm and we grew 2 acres of these every year; they sold out very quickly.
In containers:
Yield around 1.5 lbs per pot 2 gallon pot; 2.5 lbs per 3 gallon pot. White skin with red eyes; very pale yellow flesh. A floury
potato (more so than PICASSO, which looks almost the same). Good boiled, mashed, baked or fried in oil.
The variant RED
KING EDWARD is a little more floury and for me produces higher yields; skin red which often
covers the whole tuber but sometimes with white patches. I'm sure this often has flowers but my
plants in pots had none.
Pictures (click on small images for detail):
Flowers
Tubers
Tubers
Seed tubers of this variety can be obtained from JBA Seed Potatoes by clicking the link below:
Red variant:
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
