Melody Seed Potato
dry floury texture, High Yield, Mid Season, Oval Shaped, Yellow Fleshed
Melody is a great all around container and garden variety. This delicious yellow fleshed variety grows high yields of round oval, smooth-skinned potatoes. Melody has excellent resistance to common scab, is heat and drought tolerant and is one of the best long term storage varieties.
EarthApples are sold in 1 kg boxes
Number of Melody per 1kg: 10-12 seed potatoes
Planting, maturity and harvest times
Space whole seed potatoes approximately 25-30 cm (10″-12″) apart. This variety matures late-season and is ready in about 100-110 days. It is an excellent garden and container variety that shows very good resistance to common scab, and is also heat and drought tolerant. Give adequate nutrients at planting time.
Cooking Applications
Melody is a somewhat mealy textured potato and a good all around general purpose cooking variety. It works well for boiling, mashing, and baking.
Storage
Excellent long term storage variety! Approximately 7 mo