Potato Varieties

The Gerona potato is a medium-late, high-yielding baby potato variety with round-oval, yellow-skinned and yellow-fleshed tubers, producing 20–40 per plant. It is valued for fresh market and peeling, has excellent washability, strong resistance to common scab, wart disease, and PCN, but is somewhat susceptible to foliage and tuber blight.

Markies is a chipping and crisping variety with a yellow skin and light yellow flesh colour. Tubers are big, oval long with shallow eyes, of uniform size, and deliver high yields. With a floury cooking texture and excellent dry matter content, Markies fries well and is known to absorb less oil when fried for either chips or crisps.

The potato is a sustainable choice. It has a very small Carbon footprint, compared to rice or wheat. And it gets even smaller now. HZPC presents you Even Greener - a selection of extra sustainable varieties with a lower impact.