Variety profile
Potato ‚Ackersegen’
Solanum tuberosum · Solanaceae
- Ripening
- spät
- Harvest
- Week 39 to 42
- Vigour
- stark
- Origin
- Deutschland
- Introduced
- 1929
- Open-pollinated
- Yes
- Heritage variety
- Yes
- Use
- Kochen, Lager
- Disease resistance
- Kraut Und Knollenfaeule: mittel, Schorf: mittel
About this variety
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The ‚Ackersegen’ is a robust old storage variety that has served as a reliable winter potato for decades. The round to oval tubers with yellow flesh are starchy and taste strongly earthy, ideal for mash, soups, dumplings, and stews. It ripens late, grows vigorously, and can be stored excellently over winter. In your home garden it is thrifty and yield-secure.
It tastes strongly earthy and starchy, breaks down when cooked, perfect for loose mash.
Care and diseases
Soil, feeding, pruning, companion planting and diseases apply to every variety of this species alike. You will find the full guidance on the species page.
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