The best potato varieties

Recommendation points

• Impala
• Rosara
• Nevsky
• Red Scarlett
• Colombo
• Sineglazka
• Adretta
• Gala

You have not yet decided which potatoes to plant next spring in the country? If you want to really get a good harvest, choose varietal potatoes, and not bought from Baba Nyura in a neighboring village, because even the most productive species degenerate over time.

Impala

Well known to many Russians, the Impala potato variety was bred in Holland. This variety is famous for the fact that it gives a good harvest in any climate. The bushes are quite tall and dense, germination is good. In appearance, ordinary and familiar to us potatoes, oval, light yellow, sometimes slightly darker, with a small number of eyes.

Impala belongs to the early varieties, usually ripens within 50 days after germination. So in the southern and central regions of our country, you can manage to harvest two crops. It is important that this variety is not exposed to viral and cancer diseases. The tubers gain a mass of 100 grams quickly, and the taste is excellent potatoes, quite boiled, the mashed potatoes turn out to be yellowish, beautiful. And yet – the Impala is perfectly stored all winter. These advantages made the variety so popular..

Rosara

Also a well-known potato variety to Russians, which was bred in Germany. The harvest will ripen within 60–70 days after germination. It features an easily recognizable pink-red rind. The bushes are medium in size, straight, and the corolla is reddish-purple. The flesh of this potato variety is yellow, usually the size of tubers does not exceed 150 grams, but one bush can contain up to 17 potatoes.

The taste is good, but rosara is lightly boiled, hard variety. Easy to transport, excellent storage, resists diseases such as potato nematode and common scab.

Nevsky

This variety, according to experts, is excellent for growing in the Moscow region and other central Russian regions. Nevsky ripens in 80–90 days, the bushes are low, with white flowers and straight branches. The tubers are oval, there are few eyes, and they are shallow, which is convenient during cleaning. The pulp is white, does not darken after cutting. Usually the mass of tubers does not exceed 130 grams, it is stored perfectly.

The yield is high, Nevsky is resistant to late blight and other diseases. Grows well on sandy loam soils and loam. The popularity of this variety was also brought about by its good taste..

Red Scarlett

This variety has a darker skin than Rosara, and the flesh is yellow. The height of the bush can reach 70 centimeters, the stems are up to eight pieces, the flowers are red-purple. The tubers themselves are oval, with small eyes. Under the bush there can be up to 23 tubers weighing up to 85 grams. From one hundred square meters in a productive year, you can collect up to 600 kilograms of this variety.

Not afraid of cancer and late blight. It keeps well in winter, practically without germinating in a cool basement. The pulp is hard to boil, but Red Scarlett is great for soups and frying.

Colombo

This variety was also bred in the Netherlands, the tubers are oval-round, with very small eyes. Usually the mass of one potato does not exceed 130 grams. Both the flesh and the skin are yellowish, the bushes will be medium in size with white flowers.

Note that the Colombo variety boiled in its jacket is very easy to peel, the peel literally leaves by itself. It keeps its shape well, if you cut it into cubes and throw it into soup or fry, the potatoes will remain intact. Good taste. The first, but still relatively small root crops can be harvested already 45 days after germination.

Sineglazka

A very popular at one time variety of potatoes with boiled white pulp. It was taken out in the post-war years in Russia, since then it has been popular with summer residents. Delicious, easily recognizable, the yield reaches 500 kilograms from one hundred square meters. Not afraid of rot, scab, late blight.

A stable harvest and excellent taste, especially in mashed potatoes, allowed Sineglazka to remain the leader on the Russian agricultural market for many years. But, let’s clarify, now this potato variety is increasingly replacing the medium late, newer and more productive variety Golubizna.

Adretta

This variety was also bred in Germany, belongs to the mid-season and ripens approximately 80 days after germination. The bush grows fast, strong, erect, beige flowers. Tubers gain weight up to 150 grams. The pulp is creamy, slightly yellowish, crumbly, cooks quickly.

Adretta is not afraid of viral infections and cancer, but the ground part can be affected by late blight. Gives a stable harvest, potatoes tolerate bad weather conditions well, which is why they are recommended for use in Western Siberia.

Gala

A full harvest of this potato variety can be obtained 70 days after the first shoots appear. Gala is famous for good yields, under a bush there can be up to 25 tubers, whose maximum size reaches 120 grams. The skin is yellowish and the flesh is pale yellow. During cooking and peeling, the pulp does not darken, retains its shape.

The disadvantage of the Gala variety is that it is susceptible to disease with the fungus rhizoctonia, but it usually affects the lower part of the stem, and not the tubers, although it will affect the yield.

Finally, some interesting information. Did you know that the heaviest potato tuber weighed 11.2 kilograms? True, we are talking about sweet potatoes, which we do not grow. Found such a giant tuber, which got into the Guinness Book of Records, a farmer from Lebanon. But the richest potato crop from one bush was removed by the Belarusian – 3.15 kilograms. 26 large tubers grew under one Sineglazka bush in a resident of Bobruisk.