Kennebec Organic Seed Potatoes
Maturity: mid-season to late.
Tubers: elliptical to oblong, medium thick; smooth creamy buff skin; shallow eyes; white flesh. High yielding fast growing variety, widely adapted. Requires close planting (15 to 20 cm between plants) and vine killing to avoid producing oversized and rough tubers. Excellent storage quality. Long dormancy period. High total solids.
*tubers grow green rapidly when exposed to light.
Use: Excellent for boiling, baking, chipping and French frying.
Reaction to Diseases
Field resistant: PVA, PVY.
Resistant: tuber net necrosis.
Moderately resistant: foliage late blight, black leg , fusarium dry rot, phoma rot, potato wart, seed-piece decay, PVS and PVX.
Susceptible: common scab, fusarium dry rot, tuber late blight, leaf roll, pink eye and rhizoctonia.
Highly susceptible: verticillium wilt.
Tubers: elliptical to oblong, medium thick; smooth creamy buff skin; shallow eyes; white flesh. High yielding fast growing variety, widely adapted. Requires close planting (15 to 20 cm between plants) and vine killing to avoid producing oversized and rough tubers. Excellent storage quality. Long dormancy period. High total solids.
*tubers grow green rapidly when exposed to light.
Use: Excellent for boiling, baking, chipping and French frying.
Reaction to Diseases
Field resistant: PVA, PVY.
Resistant: tuber net necrosis.
Moderately resistant: foliage late blight, black leg , fusarium dry rot, phoma rot, potato wart, seed-piece decay, PVS and PVX.
Susceptible: common scab, fusarium dry rot, tuber late blight, leaf roll, pink eye and rhizoctonia.
Highly susceptible: verticillium wilt.
