Potatoes - Charlotte
CHARLOTTE
Flowers white with yellow centre. Medium to tall haulms, very thick.
Considerable trouble with stem rots and blight in some years. Yield
typically 1.25 lbs per pot, but much lower in blight years. Pale
yellow skins and off-white flesh; very waxy. Excellent when new for
boiling. No good for mashing or baking; OK for frying in oil when
young. On storage the skins gradually become tougher and the flesh
less pleasant; by late April, stored tubers may start to go woody.
Pictures (click on small images for detail):
Flowers
Tubers
Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
