Monday, 27 January 2014

B&M Potatoes and Onions




Onions

- Stuttgarter onions are a favourite which can be planted earlier than normal varieties.   Stuttgarter are a sweet, smooth and very mild tasting onion and they are an excellent variety for storage.

- Setton is a classic spring planting variety that produces high yields of great tasking onions.

- Red Baron is an excellent traditional onion and one of the longest storing onions we know.  It is a very attractive red skinned variety with pink and white flesh.

- Golden Gourmet shallots are easy to grow and store well.  This variety has good resistance to bolting and it may be planted out from January.

- Sturon is a good old fashioned variety with straw coloured skin and good resistance to running to seed.

- Centurion onion have a lovely straw yellow, semi round bulbs.  It has a good crisp flesh.  It is a heavy crop variety and an excellent winter storer.

Potatoes

- Pentland Javelin it's a popular first early potato.  It has white skin and white flesh, high yielding but tendency to bulk late.  Equally good if grown as a main crop, Javelin is one of the most disease resistant potato varieties.

- King Edward are commonly available across major retailers, are versatile potatoes that taste great boiled, baked, mashed or roasted.  It has a white skin with a pinkish tinge and a creamy floury flesh.

- Charlotte potatoes are classic salad potatoes, widely available across all major retailers.  They are small, waxy, with a pale yellow skin and buttery yellow flesh.  It holds an RHS AGM award.

- Maris Piper are a favourite potato grown since the 60s.  It produces dry, floury tubers with creamy white flesh of good flavour.  It rarely discolours on cooking.


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