These are a nice variety, though I've found very susceptible to Late Blight. I grew these last year as well and both times they got a real kicking from LB. Up until then, a nice easy to grow variety, some berries set but the plants were infected pretty early on so no ripe ones. The flowers produced a nice amount of pollen and I made a few crosses to Hot Dog, looking forward to getting some seed ready for next year.
The variety is modern and bred by Karsten Ellenberg (who bred Violetta too) tubers have a gorgeous red colour and are not so much a fingerling as a elongated oval, some are nice and long others a bit chubby and round! Pinky red flesh which taste good when freshly harvested, they boiled well and were tasty hot or cold, quite waxy but I think they get more floury as they age.



The variety is modern and bred by Karsten Ellenberg (who bred Violetta too) tubers have a gorgeous red colour and are not so much a fingerling as a elongated oval, some are nice and long others a bit chubby and round! Pinky red flesh which taste good when freshly harvested, they boiled well and were tasty hot or cold, quite waxy but I think they get more floury as they age.
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