Picture and Description of Rocket Potato Seed and its Cooking Qualities

View our Rocket potato seed - texture and disease resistance table - for this variety.

It is a white fleshed boiler with a waxy texture. Produces large crops of uniform tubers with a very mild flavour. Probably the earliest early around.



Potato seed variety: Rocket

White skin, white flesh. Firm, waxy texure.


A first early variety.


Rocket potato seed produce excellent tubers for:

• Boiling

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Suttons/Dobies is our preferred 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.

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Texure of Potato

Waxy 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 Resistance

It`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