June 30 update on our Potatoes

Here is another angle of our potato patch. There are so many varities of potatoes.  We planted Rooster and King Edward. Here are a few pictures of their blooms.

WIKI: Rooster is a red-skinned cultivar of potato, duller in colour than the Désirée, with floury yellow flesh. It was originally bred at the Teagasc Oak Park Research Centre in Carlow, Ireland[1].It has become Ireland's number one variety of potato; in 2002, it accounted for 33% of Irish potato production [2].  In the UK, it is currently grown and packed by Albert Bartlett & Sons Ltd [1], a vegetable packing company. They own exclusive rights to the potato

the UK and supply it packed to the UK's major supermarkets.

The distributor recommends that the Rooster is extremely versatile, and can be used for chipping, mashing, boiling, baking, and roasting.

WIKI: King Edward potatoes, like the majority of European and North American potato varieties, are derivatives of the 'Rough Purple Chili'[1] which was used as breeding stock after the 1840s Irish potato famine.[2] The King Edward potato is one of the oldest of these varieties.