Comments on: Harvesting Blight Resistant Sarpo Mira Potatoes

By: Ian Geary

Ian Geary — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:00:28 +0000

I have grown sarpo for the last two years and have bought my sarpo mira seed potatoes this week from a nursery. I was fed up with blight. But last year was dry, so no sign of blight in th emidlands. I had an enormous crop of potatoes from my sarpo. They are irregualr shapes and some weigh over 2lbs each. They do tend to green over if you plant too near the surface.I find they keep very well indeed. We eat them in chips as well as everything else. I also grow Kestrel as I like a white one for a change and these are slug resistant. I use plenty of horse manue and chucked chicken pelllets under each tubar seed last year.

By: chuffa

chuffa — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:13:39 +0000

I will be growing Sarpo Axona in 2012 maincrop. They are similar to Mira but more creamy in texture and more regular in shape. The supplier (Alan Romans Potatoes) did say that they should not be left to grow to long as they can become slightly hollow.

By: don duggan

don duggan — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:18:59 +0000

I am very interested to read this page. This year I am growing Sarpo Mira for the first time. Compared to other varieties so far I have noticed that they are slower to sprout and start to grow, the leaves are a much darker colour and thenstems tend to remain closer to the ground. Also the leaf shape is more round than other varieties. Cant determine the blight resistance yet at its only early may and still cold here in Southern Ireland. Hopefully I get a crop like shown here.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:44 +0000

I too have had a great crop of Sarpo potatoes but although they were all well earthed up, I was very disappointed to discover on peeling about twenty of them today that the flesh under the skin of every one was green.I had to pare away half of each tuber to get to white flesh.As I have about five sacks of these in the shed I am very concerned that if we continue to eat these potatoes I will poison us all.I know that the odd tuber will go green when exposed to daylight while growing but to have this happen to every one is worrying.I am anxious to know whether anybody else has experienced this problem or is it something I am or am not doing correctly.