The Tilbury potato is an early maturing variety with yellow skin and pale yellow flesh. It has an oval shape and shallow eyes. Known for its high yield and good resistance to common scab, Tilbury offers a firm texture and is ideal for boiling, frying, and roasting.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Emergence: fast
- Plant vigour: high
- Foliage maturity: medium late
- Tuber shape: short oval
- Shape uniformity: fairly good
- Eye depth: fairly deep
- Skin color: yellow
- Flesh colour: pale yellow
- Tuber size: large
- Tuber set: moderate
Resistances
- Resistance to foliage late blight: fairly low
- Resistance to tuber late blight: moderate
- Resistance to pvy: fairly high
- Resistance to pvyntn: very high
- Resistance to wart pathovar 1: full
- Resistance to pcn g.Rostochiensis (ro1-4): full
- Resistance to pcn g.Pallida (pa2-3): null
Quality
- Yield: fairly high
- Dry matter content: exceptional (>26%)
- Disintegration: medium
- After cooking darkening: fairly slight
- Cooking type: C
- Frying colour at harvest: very good
- Storage ability: fairly high
