Kerr's Pink Potato: Growing Tips

Key facts

Seed company

Dept For Agric And Rural Development

Listed for

United Kingdom

Overview

Kerr's Pink is a Scottish potato with deep eyes and pink skin. The flesh is starchy and floury, and it is good for mashing and boiling. It has very high resistance to slugs, which helps on heavy or damp ground, but it catches blight easily. It is widely grown in Ireland and across the UK.

Kerr's Pink traits

• Deep-eyed potato with pink skin
• Floury, starchy flesh
• Very high resistance to slugs
• Prone to blight

Good for

• Mashing
• Boiling

Kerr's Pink FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every potato variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Potato growing guide
• Seed Potatoes: Chitting, Cutting and Drying Before Planting
• When and How to Plant Potatoes: Depth, Spacing and Soil
• Earthing Up Potatoes and How Many Shoots to Keep
• Potato Growing Calendar: Spring and Late Summer Crops
• Potato Problems: Blight, Scab and Green Potatoes
• When to Harvest Potatoes and How to Store Them
• All 20 potato varieties

Source

Source: APHA (Animal and Plant Health Agency)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.