Red Skin Potato
- Type: annual vegetable
- Planting time: in early spring as soon as soil is workable
- Features: tubers with gold, buttery-tasting flesh
- Height: 30 to 36 inches
- Light: full sun
- Soil: fertile, well-drained
- Spacing: 10 to 15 inches
- Garden use: kitchen gardens, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, containers
- Culinary use: baking, mashing, steaming, boiling, frying
Homegrown potatoes offer a world of variety and flavor. Red potato is a case in point. With pink tinted skin and snow-white flesh, this potato serves up versatility in the kitchen. These spuds have a high starch content, whipping up into outstanding mashed potatoes. They also make terrific homemade potato chips. Use this all-purpose potato for steaming, frying, boiling, and baking. Tubers mature early and have excellent keeping quality. Because red potatoes mature so quickly, you may want to make three plantings, one month apart. Successive plantings will provide a summer-long supply of fresh potatoes for eating, along with a last harvest for winter storage.
Some Bonnie Plants varieties may not be available at your local stores, as we select and sell varieties best suited to the growing conditions in each region.
