No two potato cultivars are alike and every type of potato or cultivar has been bred for a particular purpose — like frying or boiling.
is a dark, red-skinned, white-fleshed oval potato recommended for boiling. Sangre matures slightly later in the season than Norland or Viking and is more susceptible to scab.is another dark, red-skinned, white-fleshed oval potato recommended for boiling. AC Peregrine matures late in the season but it has an excellent tuber set. Tubers do not tend to oversize.Purple Viking. Purple Viking is slightly later maturing than Viking or Norland and tubers tend to oversize.
Of these five cultivars, Russet Norkotah has the most uniform-sized tubers. However, the taste is probably the least favourable. Russet Burbank is the latest maturing. If growing conditions are not ideal, Russet Burbank tends to produce knobby and hollow tubers. All russet potato cultivars are fairly resistant to scab infection.
Many gardeners try to get an early start by planting their potato tubers outdoors early in May. This is not recommended as the soil can be quite cool at that time of the year. Cool soil conditions encourage potato seed tuber rot and a disease on potatoes known as rhizoctonia. Rhizoctonia looks like specs of dirt on the potato skin but this so-called dirt doesn’t wash off. The fungal disease, Rhizoctonia solani, can reduce yields and even kill plants if the infection is severe enough.
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