The Folk potato variety features yellow skin and flesh, with an oval to elongated shape and firm texture. It is versatile for boiling, steaming, roasting, baking, and mashing, offering a golden, crispy exterior and creamy interior when cooked. Folk potatoes are adaptable to various growing conditions, thrive in well-drained soils and temperate climates, and provide a reliable yield with moderate to good resistance to common potato diseases.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage Maturity: Medium
- Emergence: Fairly Fast
- Plant Vigour: High
- Tuber Shape: Short Oval
- Shape Uniformity: Good
- Eye Depth: Shallow
- Skin Colour: Yellow
- Flesh Colour: Yellow
- Tuber Size: Fairly Large
- Tuber Set: Fairly High (10-12)
Resistances
- Resistance to Foliage Late Blight: Fairly High
- Resistance to Tuber Late Blight: Fairly High
- Resistance to Pitted Common Scab: Fairly High
- Resistance to Netted Common Scab: Fairly High
- Resistance to Pvy: Very High
- Resistance to Pvyntn: High
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO1-4): Full
- Resistance to Pcn G.pallida (PA2-3): Null
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F1): Full
Quality
- Yield: High
- Dry Matter Content: Medium:18-20%
- Cooking Type: AB
- Disintegration: Slight
- After Cooking Darkening: Very Slight
- Frying Colour at Harvest: Good
- Storage Ability: Moderate
