Everything about potatoes for 2021

[Biobomb]

[quote = "Did67"

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Thank you Didier for this enlightened response.

[Julienmos]

who has ever planted potatoes of the "ratte" variety?
my neighbor has just made a very good harvest, telling me that in the kitchen they are the best (and also the most expensive in the trade?)

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

who has ever planted potatoes of the "ratte" variety?

Ah grow potatoes,
It's not funny. Between us,
They are in precarious health,
And I'm making a lot of bad blood
No matter how much I want to raise them
They are suffering on all sides.

I have the Ratte
Which expands
The darling
That deviates
Amandine
Who is born
I have Highness
In buttock skin
The Armada
flagada
The Charlene
Big problem
Desiree
Too much urea
Elodie
Which flaps
The Fourball
Who gets carried away
granola
Who is wrong
The Lenape
Who misses
The Lumper
Obliterates
Morene
Who brakes
The Nadine
Who mine
The Nectar
Who is scared
The Osiris?
She unscrews
And the Osette?
She is chard
Pompadour
Help!
The Velox
Who gets poisoned

Ah! good God ! how annoying
To garden potatoes,
Ah! good God ! how annoying
I like them though.

[Julienmos]

thank you for this very detailed answer

[Did67]

who has ever planted potatoes of the "ratte" variety?
my neighbor has just made a very good harvest, telling me that in the kitchen they are the best (and also the most expensive in the trade?)

For my part, I find that there is sometimes an element of snobbery in all of this. It's expensive, so I grow it. And as I cultivate it, I try to find it good ... In addition, Robuchon used it to make his purees ... So ...

Let's get along: it is surely excellent!

But I'm not sure that in "blind tasting" and without commentary, all of her fans would recognize her (aside from her characteristic irregular shape - for a blind test: steaming pucks and rings of the same size of a few other yellow varieties, number the dishes, serve, above all say nothing, the tasters do not speak but note, collect the copies; if you want to have fun you do that one evening with friends; and you will know if really, the average person notices the difference or if it is 1 in 2 or 1 in 3, etc).

I had some ... Surely very good, I don't remember any more ... I have no more ... But no more by no choice ... I always try new things ...

But beware: much lower yields (65% of Bintje, where Rikéa make 110%, are not very sensitive and ... excellent!), Susceptibility to diseases (quite sensitive to sensitive to almost everything!), Low conservation , etc ... So a choice that involves risks!

http://plantdepommedeterre.org/index/fi ... erre/ratte

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[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Let's get along: it is surely excellent!

I confirm, it has a little nutty taste. Afterwards, as you say, blindly, I'm not sure I recognize it, I ate it only a few times, and not at home.

[Biobomb]

who has ever planted potatoes of the "ratte" variety?
my neighbor has just made a very good harvest, telling me that in the kitchen they are the best (and also the most expensive in the trade?)

I had some ... Surely very good, I don't remember any more ... I have no more ... But no more by no choice ... I always try new things ...

But beware: much lower yields (65% of Bintje, where Rikéa make 110%, are not very sensitive and ... excellent!), Susceptibility to diseases (quite sensitive to sensitive to almost everything!), Low conservation , etc ... So a choice that involves risks!

Didier, your father, I am almost certain, cultivated it. My parents had them. They are the Misserla. You, you tried like me and you moved on.
We cultivated them because we could eat them with their skin, you remember there.
Personally, in front of the very low output, I had tried the Pompadour which reached the ankle.
I think that the rattes that Julien talks about are improved varieties, like cultivars or almost.

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[Biobomb]

I come back from the vegetable garden after having taken out a few pot plants. I couldn't wait any longer. I was afraid of mildew, but for nothing! But also the weather, because tomorrow we are told of the flood. Very good performance of rikea. Tof tonight.

[Biobomb]

I come back from the vegetable garden after having taken out a few pot plants. I couldn't wait any longer. I was afraid of mildew, but for nothing! But also the weather, because tomorrow we are told of the flood. Very good performance of rikea. Tof tonight.

The tof is loaded in vitamins 21.

[stephgouv]

3-4d ago, I made an amazing sighting!
I go for a walk in the vegetable garden, I approach the pot plants and I notice activity at the base of a plant.
I do not move and I try to observe between the plants, but really not obvious!
However, I manage to see a rodent (gray in color I think ... could it be a mole rat ???) gnawing a side stem of the plant and dragging it into its hole.
The animal will therefore prefer the foliage to the tubers ??? Or, he has eaten all the tubers and he goes to the foliage ...
The leaves are dark green in color, no late blight yet, and no flowers yet (just on 3-4 plants).

We'll see the result in a month or two ...