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Number of Reviews: 8
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 06/27/2012 by
Ferdzy
- An intermediate gardener
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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Lovely potatoes with startlingly yellow flesh and a rich potatoey flavour. Our soil is loose and sandy, and we got a very good yield of medium to large potatoes. Good keepers. Do give them lots of space, the plants got to be amazingly enormous. |
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Reviewed on 09/01/2010 by
bren
- An intermediate gardener
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Clinton, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Not Sure
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I grew these this year and they are great. My friends are fighting over who gets the extras. I canned some to see how they will do later as a mashed potatoe or for potatoe salad. Great taste. Now they will be a standard in my garden. |
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Reviewed on 06/14/2008 by
canadamike
- An experienced gardener
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Ontario, Canada
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Best tasting potato I ever ate, fantastic smell of ''old time potatoes'', worth the wait in the field. Tubers tend to be all over the hill , not regrouped. |
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Reviewed on 12/29/2007 by
Sam Yachup
- An experienced gardener
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Albany, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Have grown GBB for past 5 years. Have found them an easy to grow, dependable variety with good yields but relatively small size tubers so while not large "chefs" the total weight harvested was impressive and get raves for flavor from all the friends I shared them with. Yields have improved as the organic content of my soil was increased and I avoid fertilizers with high ratio of nitrogen. |
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Reviewed on 05/02/2007 by
darwin
- An experienced gardener
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La Porte, Indiana, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Yield was low and size small. This was first season and were not in the best of soil. Taste was as I recall good but there were few to evaluate as we only ordered a couple pounds to plant. Over wintered well and will plant again this year. Hope to report again. |
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Reviewed on 01/12/2007 by
starflakes
- An experienced gardener
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Roberts, South Dakota, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| This is the finest eating potatoe in the world as it has a wonderful flavor that has a hint of sweetness to it. It mashes well and fries up even better. The yield was twice for me what Yukon was and Yukon does not have near the flavor. I read below the comment on sprawling vines and yes Butterball does grow tall like a number of the older genetic varieties, but in that is the shade which conserves water and chokes out late season weeds. Butterball like all good potatoes though is not going to be hammered into rows as it is European bred for flavor and not a hybrid manipulated for farmers who sit on tractors tilling acres of plants for profit at confined spacing and 27 inch height plants. Butterball is quality as it won Rodale's taste tests. You have to water this potatoe like all potatoes to get size and yield, especially as it is a late season variety. Mine though survived 100 degree heat and I grow this instead of Yukon now as it is that great. |
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Reviewed on 12/25/2005 by
goodolboy
- An intermediate gardener
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Cocke, Tennessee, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| We grew this variety, Yukon Gold, and Yellow Finn, (among others), in as close to identical conditions as possible, a couple of years ago, as we were interested in finding a higher yielding potato than the Yukon, but with equally good taste, ease of growing and versatility of use as the Yukon which has been our favorite for over 10 years.
In our trial, the German Butterball was a very long season, rampantly growing, sprawling plant, that was more difficult than any other potato we have yet grown to control in rows, when trying to contain it in a reasonable amount of space. I allowed the vines to die back completely on their own so the tubers had the opportunity to maximize in size and weight.
The tubers we grew were primarily small in size, although their total yield in terms of poundage was considerably larger per foot of row than either the Yellow Finn or the Yukons. The average weight of the 100 largest GBB tubers was 3.04 oz., with the Yellow Finn being nearly identical in weight at 3.00 oz. Yukons averaged significantly heavier than the GBB or Yellow Finn in 2 years of comparison trials.
We obtained a yield of 1.65# per foot of row with a 10" in row spacing being used for the 3 yellow fleshed potatoes being compared. This compared favorably with the Yellow Finn at 1.20#/ft and 1.14#/foot for the Yukon Gold.
For comparison, the Red Pontiac we grew with the same spacing yielded 1.76# per row, ft., Kennebec yielded 2.71#/row ft, and Gem Russet came in at 1.92#/row ft..
Growing the saved GBB seed the following year at a 12" spacing yielded a similar figure.
In terms of taste, Both I and my wife found the GBB's and yellow Finn to be good, but not better than the Yukon's.
I've heard that there are at least 2 distinct strains of this variety, so if this is at odds with your experience that may be why. I may try this variety again using seed obtained from a different source, preferably one who can assure me that the size of their strain will be larger. |
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Reviewed on 01/20/2005 by
Carl
- An experienced gardener
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Sullivan, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Wonderful Yukon Gold like potato, but small size and yield |
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