The Astra potato is a high-yielding crisping variety known for its excellent frying quality, maintaining low sugar levels throughout the season and into spring. Astra is a robust variety that thrives on both sandy and clay soils. It is well-suited for conventional farming but also shows great potential for organic production.
Characteristics
- Category: Crisping
- Usage: Crisping
- Maturity: Medium early
- Yield: High
- Foliage: Strong - high
- Tuber size: Medium to big
- Tuber shape: Round-oval
- Number of tubers: 13-16
- Skin colour: Yellow
- Flesh colour: Light yellow
- Cooking type: BC
- IBVL frying colour: 8/8/7 (IBVL frying colour scored in November/January/March)
- Dry matter content: High (23-25 DM%)
- Dormancy period: Long
- Nematodes: Resistance: Ro 1,4
- Wart disease: Susceptible
- Foliage blight: High resistance
- Tuber blight: Moderate resistance
- Common scab: High resistance