Which is best, White or Red potatoes?

[gary350]

Wife keeps changing her mind which potato is best.

Now she claims, Red potatoes are creamy they are best, mashed & in potato Salad. White potatoes are best, Baked and Fried.

After eating Kennebec mashed potatoes for 6 month and tonight eating Red mashed potatoes, Red potatoes win 1st prize.

 

[Meadowlark]

Easy...grow both...as I have done for decades.

I also like to try different varieties and have had a lot of success with them. This year I'm trying out Sarpo Shona which is a new variety related to the Sharpo Mira which is a delicious potato I've been growing for several years now.

The neat thing about potatoes is I only need a few seed potatoes and I can grow and multiply them without ever having to buy seed again. Caribe,Caribou, Prairie Bush, Elba, and others are some I have done that way.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I haven't had good luck keeping the red potatoes in storage so i just grow yellow and white.

I'll make some mad but a potato is a potato to me

Kennebec is especially flavorless

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

Anyone try true seed potatoes? I didn't baby mine enough last year

 

[gary350]

Easy...grow both...as I have done for decades.

I also like to try different varieties and have had a lot of success with them. This year I'm trying out Sarpo Shona which is a new variety related to the Sharpo Mira which is a delicious potato I've been growing for several years now.

The neat thing about potatoes is I only need a few seed potatoes and I can grow and multiply them without ever having to buy seed again. Caribe,Caribou, Prairie Bush, Elba, and others are some I have done that way.

Have you tried white French Fingerling potatoes yet? Plant 1 seed potato it will grow 30 new potatoes. Potatoes are 1" diameter about 3" to 4" long. They multiply faster than mice. LOOK OUT lots of copy cats, red, purple, black fingerling. White fingerling is white inside, red outside is yellow inside, purple out is purple inside, black out is black inside. Also people calling white fingering, Russia or Sweden fingerlings. Volunteer potatoes the following year might be a 5 gallon bucket of potatoes.

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[Meadowlark]

Anyone try true seed potatoes? I didn't baby mine enough last year

What do you mean by "true"?

I grow two crops a year...200+ pounds of red and 200 pounds of white/gold...each crop and some specialty potatoes.

I normally buy very few seed potatoes rather grow my own which are well adapted to my area.

 

[Meadowlark]

I haven't had good luck keeping the red potatoes in storage so i just grow yellow and white.

I'll make some mad but a potato is a potato to me

Kennebec is especially flavorless

Actually my red lasoda are the best storing potato out there.

You won't make me mad but I just totally disagree...the taste differences are really quite remarkable...especially if you eat them raw...as I often do.

Kennebec is like eating cardboard...yuck,wouldn't have them in my garden and we agree on that.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

True Potato Seeds – Cultivariable

www.cultivariable.com

Actual seeds like a tomato

Maybe red potatoes do better for you because they have higher moisture content, better for long warm weather and worse in the near freezing temps I subject them to

 

[Meadowlark]

Ok,yes I have tried that actual seed...and found it to be next to worthless here. Far better to use seed potatoes especially those you have adapted to your own environment through multiple generations.

 

[Martin Mikulcik]

I think it's supposed to be worthless the first year, but if you keep what you get for replanting, then it'll be your own variety that will set fruit next year and the breeding continues

Being asexually reproduced, potatoes aren't supposed to adapt to your environment, or do so very slowly. Most have sterile flowers

I'm going to give them another shot this year, maybe plant them closer to water them. I think they're extra long season from seed

 

[Meadowlark]

Have you tried white French Fingerling potatoes yet?

No, no interest at all in growing them. I get plenty of "fingerling" potatoes with each crop twice a year and certainly do not need any more. Those red lasoda "fingerlings" are absolutely delicious thrown into a big pot of green beans or cooked with creamed peas...delicious absolutely delicious.

 

[Meadowlark]

...Being asexually reproduced, potatoes aren't supposed to adapt to your environment, or do so very slowly.

Well, I've been growing them since the 1970's... many decades...and I say they do adapt to the environment they are grown in.

So, we disagree again, but that's ok. It is all part of the gardening experience.

 

[roadrunner]

Sweet potatoes

 

[gary350]

Sweet potatoes

No, a sweet potato is not a type of potato; they are from different plant families, with sweet potatoes belonging to the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) and regular potatoes to the nightshade family (Solanaceae), and sweet potatoes are tuberous roots while potatoes are stem tubers. While both are starchy vegetables, they are botanically distinct, differing in origin, appearance, and taste, with sweet potatoes naturally sweeter and potatoes more neutral and savory.

 

[roadrunner]

No, a sweet potato is not a type of potato; they are from different plant families, with sweet potatoes belonging to the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae) and regular potatoes to the nightshade family (Solanaceae), and sweet potatoes are tuberous roots while potatoes are stem tubers. While both are starchy vegetables, they are botanically distinct, differing in origin, appearance, and taste, with sweet potatoes naturally sweeter and potatoes more neutral and savory.