Picture and Description of Nadine Potato Seed and its Cooking Qualities
View our Nadine potato seed - texture and disease resistance table - for this seed variety. It has a cream flesh and is a great potato for roasting. Produces a good yield and is disease resistant - grown all around the world. A potato you can use for the showbench.
Potato seed variety: Nadine 
Cream skin, cream flesh. Firm, waxy texture.
A second early variety.
Nadine potato seed produce excellent tubers for: Photo used with kind permission of the British Potato Council
For Details Click Image | Suttons/Dobies is our prefered supplier. Their potato seed are inspected by the relevant certifying authority and that number is featured on the bag labels (within riddle size 35mm x 60mm). This eliminates over-large and very small potatoes.
If specific variety is not stocked - many varieties to choose from. |
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Texure of PotatoWaxy potatoes are firmer and hold their shape. Floury potatoes are softer and break up more easily. The potato varieties mentioned on this web site are suggestions only and there are many more available.
1 is WAXY and 9 is FLOURY
Pest and Disease ResistanceIt`s understandable that the humble potato may develop a `persecution complex` as there are numerous pests and diseases that can attack and reduce yields. But only five may prove to be a serious threat. You should have relatively few problems if you purchase certified virus free seed potatoes. It is important though that in knowing how to grow potatoes properly... know your enemy. Some of the more common ailments are indicated below. The numbers given for pest or disease susceptibility or resistance are to be read as indicators. Factors like soil, crop maturity and skin thickness can affect the outcome of these readings - they are only a guide... don`t get hung up.
1 is Susceptible and 9 is Resistant
Blt = Blight CS = Common Scab PCN = Potato Cyst Nematode
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