This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer..
Waiporoporo Taewa Potato that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-p…
Huakaroro Taewa Potato has been planted 1 time by Growstuff members.
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.
Only plantings by members who have set their locations are shown on this map.
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This year i grew ELEVEN types of potato over summer..
Waiporoporo Taewa Potato that were [ready early](/plantings/shiny-front-lawn-p…
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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 l…
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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. …
Grown for: tuber (2) whole plant (1)
huakaroro taewa potato is a variety of potato
None known.
There are no seeds available to trade on Growstuff right now.