The Yelda potato variety features white skin and flesh, with an oval to long shape and firm texture. It is versatile for boiling, steaming, roasting, baking, and mashing, providing a creamy interior and crispy exterior when cooked. Yelda potatoes are adaptable to various soil types and climates, offering a good yield and moderate to good resistance to common potato diseases.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage Maturity: Mid-Early
- Emergence: Fairly Fast
- Plant Vigour: Fairly High
- Skin Colour: White
- Flesh Colour: White
- Tuber Shape: Short Oval
- Shape Uniformity: Good
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Tuber Size: Large
- Tuber Set: Fairly High (10-12)
Resistances
- Resistance to Foliage Late Blight: Low
- Resistance to Tuber Late Blight: Moderate
- Resistance to Pitted Common Scab: High
- Resistance to Netted Common Scab: High
- Resistance to Pvy: Fairly High
- Resistance to Pvyntn: High
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO1-4): Full (9)
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO2-3): Moderate (5)
- Resistance to G.pallida (PA2-3): Null
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F1): Full (10)
- Resistance to Early Blight: Moderate
Quality
- Yield: High
- Dry Matter Content: Fairly Low (17-18%)
- Cooking Type: A-B
- Disintegration: Very Slight
- After Cooking Darkening: Very Slight
- Frying Colour at Harvest: Fairly Good
- Storage Ability: Moderate
