huakaroro taewa potato Huakaroro Taewa Potato

No scientific name recorded
Also known as huakaroro (en) Karoro (en) peru ma (en)

A variety of potato

How to sow huakaroro taewa potato: Direct seed outdoors after last frost. Each piece must have one eye.

Sun requirement for huakaroro taewa potato: Plant in Full Sun

Pre-European potato from Aotearoa New Zealand. (Taewa)

Yellow fleshed, yellow-skinned knobbly ugly looking Māori potato. Good for chips. Waxy when young and fluffy when mature. A good keeper with a buttery rich flavour.

This potato is a creamy skinned, with a creamy coloured, very waxy flesh and deep eyes. It is a small, round, hard potato, excellent for potato salads, and steaming. Beautiful in a hāngī.

Grow for five months.

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Growing huakaroro taewa potatoes

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

19 weeks

First harvest expected

15 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

19 weeks after planting

Grown for

tuber harvested 2 times

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Huakaroro taewa potato harvests

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Karoro potato at Koanga Institute

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Note from Koanga institute about huakaroro taewa potato

Sent to Koanga by Rex Mundy of Kerikeri. He said it came from the Banks Peninsula, "growing there as long as the locals can remember at an isolated bay, among the boulders on the foreshore. The runners went lon…

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Note from Koanga

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Growing notes for: huakaroro taewa potato

2012 - Medium height, strong top growth but very very crinkly leaves, and some yellow blotching average weight 1kg

2013 - More even line, but poor yield. …

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