Food / Polish Potato Varieties [28]

I see Polish farmers continue to suffer a lack of EU export markets for their potato crops. And it's a natural state of affairs that those of us that live in the USA Southeast can pretty much only grow a few red potato varieties here. Plus sweet potatoes. I see a lot of information on boiling potatoes, salad potatoes and even crumbly potatoes. But little on high starch potatoes like Idaho Russet or typical UK Roasting types. What are the best Polish Potato varieties for baking, roasting and fries? The high starch powdery types.

Food / Poland origin apples and rootstock [18]

I am an American in Southern Georgia. And growing Apples are one of my passions. I've found Georgia and Poland have a lot of sandy soil in common. And appreciate most Polish P-series rootstock have big trunks and very big root systems. Which means they will probably do well here in our heat. Anyway I have P.1. P.2 and P.22 should arrive soon. And in November I should get P.14 as well. The only Polish apple variety I have comes from Poland but was apparently brought in by the Soviets as part of their command economy. Piervomaiskoie. I was wondering what people thought of this big intensely dark purple apple if anyone recalls it. I'm guessing it was not real popular. But also; please mention your favorite Apple varieties from Poland. I hope to collect ones I can find here in the USA. I'm attaching a photo of the big purple Soviet invader.

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