Slug resistant Potatoes
Martin Elliff
can anyone recommend any varieties that are reasonably slug
resistant? I'd quite like to eat some of my crop this year!
Martin Elliff
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Janet E Galpin
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> Martin Elliff
> m...@sequent.com
On last week's 'Gardeners World', tests carried out showed 'Kestrel'
to have absolutely no slug damage. In contrast with other varieties
which were riddled with holes, the results looked quite impressive.
Janet Galpin, S.Lincs
Graham Anstey
>It's time to buy seed potatoes again. After last years slugathon,
>can anyone recommend any varieties that are reasonably slug
>resistant? I'd quite like to eat some of my crop this year!
Back in the summer Pippa Greenwood did a trial on Gardener's World to
see which potatoes were most slug resistant. From memory ISTR that
Kestrel came out best.
Last year I tried Maris Bard and another whose name escapes me for the
moment. Despite having slugs coming out of my wellies (almost
literally) both did reasonably well. I'll follow-up if I remember what
the others were... first earlies, one word name... nope can't remember
at the moment.
HTH
Graham
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Kay
>It's time to buy seed potatoes again. After last years slugathon,
>can anyone recommend any varieties that are reasonably slug
>resistant? I'd quite like to eat some of my crop this year!
I did OK with Pink Fir Apple.
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Kay
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Martin Elliff
Can these be purchased at your average garden centre, or are they a
mail order job. If so, anyone know any suppliers?
Judge Shredd
>
>Can these be purchased at your average garden centre, or are they a
>mail order job. If so, anyone know any suppliers?
Chase Organics sell them - do you need the address ?
Ta!
Judge Shredd
(W.Yorks) "I am the LAWn"
Martin Elliff
>>It looks like Kestrel are the ones to get.
>>
>>Can these be purchased at your average garden centre, or are they a
>>mail order job. If so, anyone know any suppliers?
>Chase Organics sell them - do you need the address ?
Yes please.
Martin Elliff
Twickenham Middx
Janet E Galpin
> Can these be purchased at your average garden centre, or are they a
> mail order job. If so, anyone know any suppliers?
I don't know about your average garden centre but Marshalls have them
for mail order. You have to order 6 kg (at £9.75)
Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Chris French and Helen Johnson
<m...@sequent.com> writes
>It's time to buy seed potatoes again. After last years slugathon,
>can anyone recommend any varieties that are reasonably slug
>resistant? I'd quite like to eat some of my crop this year!
>
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Chris French and Helen Johnson
Leeds
Judge Shredd
>
>Yes please.
>
>Martin Elliff
>Twickenham Middx
THE ORGANIC GARDENING CATALOGUE
RIVERDENE
MOSLEY ROAD
HERSHAM
SURREY
KT12 4RG
T: 01932-253666
F: 01932-252707
Kestrel are £5.95 - I think that was a 3KG. bag but I'm not overly sure.
Chris French and Helen Johnson
writes
>Judge Shredd <Ha...@SPAMNOTdweeb.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>
>>Chase Organics sell them - do you need the address ?
>
Riverdene Buisness Park
Molsely Road
Hersham
Surrey
KT12 4RG
01932 253666
John H Wood
>It's time to buy seed potatoes again. After last years slugathon,
>can anyone recommend any varieties that are reasonably slug
>resistant? I'd quite like to eat some of my crop this year!
Over the years I've tried many varieties, and eliminated most according to
taste and slug damage.
I have now ended up with Arran Pilot for 1st Early, Maris Peer for 2nd
Early and Desire for main crop.
Earlies being in the ground for a shorter period usually come off better,
with one notable exception. I remember Geoff Hamilton recommending Rocket
for taste and I later tried one and he was right a wonderful potatoe, I
grew some the following year and I did'nt taste any of them, they were
completely devastated by slugs.
Main crop varieties that I particularly remember being slug prone were Cara
and Kerrs Pink.
Edwin Tucker &Sons Ltd. of Ashburton, Devon have an impressive list of
potatoes including organically grown ones. Kestrel are £2.50 for 3kg. and
£4.60 for 6kg. And for the organically grown £3.20 for 3kg. and £5.80 for
6kg.
In their catalogue they list the following varieties as being resistant to
slug damage:
2nd earlies: Carlingford, Kestrel, Nadine, & Wilja
Main crop: Bintje, King Edward, Pentland Crown, Pentland Dell, Pentland
, Squire, Romano, Sante, Shula, & Symfonia
Their full address is :Edwin Tucker &Sons Ltd.
Brewery Meadow
Stonepark
Ashburton,
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ13 7DG
phone:(01364)652403
fax: (01364)654300
John
Uplyme,Devon
Phil Cooper
Judge Shredd wrote in message ...
>>>Chase Organics sell them - do you need the address ?
>>
>>
>>Martin Elliff
>>Twickenham Middx
>
>THE ORGANIC GARDENING CATALOGUE
>RIVERDENE
>MOSLEY ROAD
>HERSHAM
>SURREY
>KT12 4RG
>
>T: 01932-253666
>
>F: 01932-252707
>
>Kestrel are £5.95 - I think that was a 3KG. bag but I'm not overly sure.
>
>
>Ta!
>
>Judge Shredd
>
>(W.Yorks) "I am the LAWn"
The problem with mail order potatoes is the cost of postage.
My gardening group grew 50 varieties between us last year and found that the
all the reds eg Desiree did better than the whites or part coloured. The
other advantage is that common reds are availble from your local garden
centre with no postage cost.
Phil
Janet E Galpin
> My gardening group grew 50 varieties between us last year and found that the
> all the reds eg Desiree did better than the whites or part coloured. The
> other advantage is that common reds are availble from your local garden
> centre with no postage cost.
> Phil
Phil,
Could you just clarify whether you mean better against slugs or
better generally.
I was wondering about trying Desiree but Edwin Tucker don't list it
as particularly slug resistant (though they do list Romano). Kitchen
Garden magazine did a bit of a survey a few months ago and Desiree
came out quite well as slug resistant in that.
If you say you found it resistant that will be enough to clinch it for me!
Also, has anyone actually tried Kestrel, which is supposed to be so
good against slugs? In an article in the RHS magazine a few months
ago, they featured the early and second early potatoes which had been
given an AGM. Although Kestrel had been trialled it didn't win an
award, which made me think it must have some other snag - low yield perhaps.
Janet Galpin, near Spalding, Lincs
NeilTonks
In article <199901122...@zetnet.co.uk>, Janet E Galpin
<j.ga...@zetnet.co.uk> writes:
>Also, has anyone actually tried Kestrel, which is supposed to be so
>good against slugs? In an article in the RHS magazine a few months
>ago, they featured the early and second early potatoes which had been
>given an AGM. Although Kestrel had been trialled it didn't win an
>award, which made me think it must have some other snag - low yield perhaps.
>
I've tried Kestrel. The yield was pretty low and the tubers themselves pretty
tasteless. As I recall, they were untroubled by slugs, though. I wouldn't
grow them again, as I like some taste along with my cellulose, starch and
water!
Neil Tonks
(Peak District website: http://members.aol.com/pdwalks)
PMoore2966
For my part, Pink Fir Apple have not been touched by slugs in 3 years of
growing them. Not a maincrop though but delicious.
Pam
Pam Moore,
Keynsham, Bristol
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Jane Ransom
<pmoor...@aol.com> writes
>
>For my part, Pink Fir Apple have not been touched by slugs in 3 years of
>growing them. Not a maincrop though but delicious.
All this talk about slugs and potatoes.
I always thought that if you dug them up before August (or is it the end
of August? Must ask my veggie man again.), you would have no slug damage
to *any* kind of potato.
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Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
Jo Hayes
>> all the reds eg Desiree did better than the whites or part coloured. The
>> other advantage is that common reds are availble from your local garden
>> centre with no postage cost.
>
>> Phil
>
>
>Phil,
>
>Could you just clarify whether you mean better against slugs or
>better generally.
>I was wondering about trying Desiree but Edwin Tucker don't list it
>as particularly slug resistant (though they do list Romano). Kitchen
>Garden magazine did a bit of a survey a few months ago and Desiree
>came out quite well as slug resistant in that.
>If you say you found it resistant that will be enough to clinch it for me!
>
>good against slugs? In an article in the RHS magazine a few months
>ago, they featured the early and second early potatoes which had been
>given an AGM. Although Kestrel had been trialled it didn't win an
>award, which made me think it must have some other snag - low yield perhaps.
>
>
spuds were not badly affected, even though we left them in the ground
until November. Whether they qualify as "slug resistant", I can't say.
Can anyone give the expert explanation for slug resistance? Based on our
crop last year, my amateur guess is that slugs prefer the ones that fall
apart when cooked because they are less dense and less work for the
slugs to chew. They seemed to attack Wilja, which does fall apart when
cooked, more than Desiree and the salad varieties Belle de Fontenay,
Charlotte and Pink Fir Apple, which don't.
--
Jo Hayes
Paul Simonite
from Jane Ransom <ran...@mearsgyl.demon.co.uk> contains these words:
> I always thought that if you dug them up before August (or is it the end
> of August? Must ask my veggie man again.), you would have no slug damage
> to *any* kind of potato.
That's ok in the south Jane, but here in the far north (by John
O'Groats) the season is very late starting and only the earliest of
tatties are ready by that date.
I have fields all around my garden and slugs invade like Genghis Khan
and his hoards! To date the only two types I have found to be
resistant are Desiree an Kestrel. Both give low yields in my cold
clay soil but other high yielding varieties are so badly damaged that
I get a lower final yield in the chip pan with them.
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Paul (Compo) Simonite, Caithness.
Jane Ransom
<statio...@zetnet.co.uk> writes
>That's ok in the south Jane, but here in the far north (by John
>O'Groats) the season is very late starting and only the earliest of
>tatties are ready by that date.
>
>I have fields all around my garden and slugs invade like Genghis Khan
>and his hoards!
Ah well, if you will live in an unpopulated wilderness, you must take
the rough with the smooth.
You are inundated with slugs . . .
. . . we are inundated with homo sapiens!!!
Alan J Holmes
I can't believe you get _that_ many visitors down that lane of
yours!
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Shelley
<joh...@newsquare.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Can anyone give the expert explanation for slug resistance? Based on our
>crop last year, my amateur guess is that slugs prefer the ones that fall
>apart when cooked because they are less dense and less work for the
>slugs to chew. They seemed to attack Wilja, which does fall apart when
>cooked, more than Desiree and the salad varieties Belle de Fontenay,
>Charlotte and Pink Fir Apple, which don't.
I'm coming in a bit late on this thread, I'm afraid, but I have a big
problem with slugs, and las year grew Ratte (lovely salad spud).
Haven't noticed any holes so far, and pretty good yield too.
Jon S Green
> I'm coming in a bit late on this thread, I'm afraid, but I have a big
> problem with slugs, and las year grew Ratte (lovely salad spud).
> Haven't noticed any holes so far, and pretty good yield too.
Slugs hurt my Pink Fir Apples (no jokes, please!), but their damage was
almost entirely confined to the foliage. We still got a reasonable
yield, and the tuber damage was pretty low (maybe 5% of yield).
Jon
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>> I'm coming in a bit late on this thread, I'm afraid, but I have a big
>> problem with slugs, and las year grew Ratte (lovely salad spud).
>> Haven't noticed any holes so far, and pretty good yield too.
>Slugs hurt my Pink Fir Apples (no jokes, please!), but their damage was
>almost entirely confined to the foliage. We still got a reasonable
>yield, and the tuber damage was pretty low (maybe 5% of yield).
Picked up a leaflet in Country Gardens today on potatoes.
Under pests it says, 'Slugs, slug damage is more prevalent in wet and heavy
soils. Limit the use of manure in heavy conditions, Sprinkle slugs pellets
or Growing Success Slug Killer sparingly to help protect.'
I can't agree that it's only a problem in wet and heavy soils, cos mine is
neither, and last year, my first at growing potatoes here, the main crop was
quite badly damaged, the word badly, is, of course, relative!
Alan