What's good about Asterix potatoes?

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Nowadays, the number of different varieties of potatoes is simply amazing, and they are all different! Ripening time, degree of disease resistance, nutrient content, storage conditions and taste all this must be taken into account! Now we will look at what basic qualities it has Asterix potatoes.
Asterix is ​​a relatively new potato variety that has a table purpose.

Features of the Asterix potato variety

  1. Ripening speed: Mid-season variety
  2. Starch content: since the variety is classified as medium-late, its starch content is above average.
  3. Taste: this variety has excellent taste and is great for deep-frying. At the same time, Asterix cooks well, not my color.
  4. Morphological characteristics: Asterix potatoes have reddish tubers, elongated oval in shape. The pulp of the tubers is yellow in color.
  5. Dry content: This variety has a fairly high dry matter content.
  6. Storage and transportation: thanks to the dense peel, it is resistant to mechanical damage and dark stains from impacts.
  7. Resistance to diseases: potatoes of the Asterix variety are practically free from golden nematode and cancer. Resistant to virus X. Good resistance to fusarium. Moderately susceptible to Phoma and leaf curl virus. However, the variety remains susceptible to virus Y.
  8. Growing features: the Asterix variety does not like soils that are oversaturated with nitrogen.In dry times, beds with this potato variety must be watered additionally. On well-cultivated soil provided with additional watering, planting elite tubers of the Asterix variety can yield 2.5-3 kg per bush.

Thanks to the above positive qualities, Asterix potatoes are included in the top of the best elite varieties.