Potato varieties—Valor

Valor is a main crop potato that we’ve grown before. Yields are good while the plants are very resistant to blight. However, we did get scab on a few tubers this year, despite Valor’s claim to be strongly resistant to scab. (In fact, Valor has been the only variety to have scab this year.)

We’re not keen on Valor as a boiling potato (it tends to dissolve into mush), but have found it excellent for roasting, baking, frying and chips. Careful steaming is more successful than boiling. It has a much more pronounced flavour than many of the other modern varieties, but it’s still mild compared to Cara, from which it was bred. We’ve had mixed results with storing Valor in the past—some tubers last seven months or more, but other last less than six.