Potatoes "Elizabeth" - description of the variety

It is difficult to overestimate the importance of potatoes on our table. For a long time this traditional vegetable was used both on weekdays and on holidays. And now we can not imagine our diet without this wonderful and satisfying product. Different types of potatoes are suitable for preparing different dishes.

So, in order for the fried potatoes to be crispy, and not steamed, one must choose such varieties that contain little starch. And vice versa - to get a delicious air mashed potatoes, you need to take potatoes with a large content of starch for cooking. It also brews much faster and is very friable, which is required for mashed potatoes.

There are such sorts of potatoes that combine in themselves and good taste and lezhkost, and stored well until the next season. One of these varieties is the potato variety "Elizabeth".

Potatoes "Elizabeth" - characteristics

This variety is one of the first breeds of potatoes bred by domestic breeders. Despite the fact that after it was opened a lot of different varieties, the potato "Elizabeth" - and to this day a welcome guest on our table. Vsevolozhskaya breeding station and the Leningrad Research Institute "Belogorka" jointly produced a variety of potatoes "Elizabeth" with excellent consumer characteristics.

The bush of "Elizabeth" is small, in comparison with its brethren. The leaves are large, saturated green. The variety blooms reluctantly with the dropping of the ovary and does not form seed peas.

The tubers are round in shape, some slightly flattened, the color of the peel from yellowish to light beige. The surface of the tuber is smooth, without rough edges with hardly visible eyes. The pulp is white, it is not subject to darkening during handling after cleaning, in contact with air.

The variety "Elizabeth" is very prolific - in one bush there are about ten large tubers, and from a hectare, with the right agrotechnics, collect from four hundred centners of potatoes. Excellent taste, average starch content, excellent preservation to a new crop without losses - all this can not fail like a simple consumer who wants to grow a delicious and high-yield product on his site. An important advantage of "Elizabeth" is considered to be a great resistance to all types of potato diseases, with the exception of late blight - to it the stability is average.

Today, the planting material "Elizabeth1" is presented on the market, which is genetically modified. If you are not afraid of experiments, then buying this potato, the Colorado beetle and diseases are not terrible, and a large crop is guaranteed. But those who do not want to risk health, you should choose the old and tested for years "Elizabeth".