Sangre Potato - 2 Pound Bag

Perfect for Baking, Boiling, and Baby Taters
$17.95
  • Buy 3+ for $15.95 each save 11%
Out of stock
SKU
36592
Item Form
Bareroot

Compatible

with your zone

See Details »

Incompatible

with your zone

See Details »

Enter your zip code to verify compatibilty with your zone.

Features to Note

Zone

2 - 11

Mature Height

15 Feet

Mature Width

20 Feet

Light Requirements

Full Sun

Moisture Requirements

Moist, well-drained

Soil Tolerance

Normal, loamy

Zone Compatibility

This Variety's Zone Range
2 - 11
My Hardiness Zone
?

Based on your zip code, Change Zip Codes

The USDA hardiness zones offer a guide to varieties that will grow well in certain climates. Each zone corresponds to the minimum winter temperatures experienced in a given area. Make sure that your hardiness zone lies within the zone compatibility range of this variety before ordering.

Description

Days to Maturity: 95

Looking for an all-around superior red potato that you can dig young for tender baby veggies or let reach full size for meaty, flavorful boiling and baking? Sangre is the best choice. Developed from the old favorite Viking by Colorado State University for the USDA in 1982, it's simply the taster's choice for flavor as well as the gardener's choice for trouble-free growth and good yields.

Sangre is a smooth red potato, oval to round, with thick skin and dense, waxy, delectable white flesh. A good storing variety, it keeps its color even in long-term storage, and it holds both shape and color when cooked. No mealy, mushy, fallen-apart potatoes in your crawfish boil or frogmore stew when Sangre's in the pot.

Sangre is not the first potato out of the soil in spring. It emerges slowly, then makes up for lost time with vigorous, quick growth and great productivity. The plant is vining and dense, with lavender blooms. It matures in early to midseason, or may be dug young for baby veg.

In addition to its great flavor, Sangre has higher concentrations of Vitamin C than many others, and its eyes are quite shallow, creating a smoother bite. It resists many potato diseases, including leafroll virus, leafroll net necrosis, potato virus X and Y, and early blight. A good choice for beginning gardeners as well as seasoned veterans, it never lets you down.

Set the seeds into the soil up to 3 weeks before the last scheduled frost. If your soil is light or loamy, bury the seeds about 4 to 6 inches deep; if it's heavy or clayey, 3 inches is a better bet. Space the seeds 12 inches apart in rows about 24 inches apart. Then mulch them in well, and after the seedlings appear, apply a feeding of bone meal. Water heavily but infrequently, letting the soil dry out a bit between waterings.

When it's time to harvest the potatoes (Sangre sets its crop all at once, so the entire patch will mature at the same time), either wait for the foliage to begin to wilt and die back or, if you want to stop the growth, break off the stems aboveground. Then wait, leaving the potatoes in the soil for 2 more weeks. This will cure them, helping them to store well. Keep them in a cool, dark place until ready to use.

Seed Potato Definition:
A tuber that has several eyes whose purpose is to be planted.
Genetically identical to the parent potato.
A faster way to grow potatoes vs seed.
Guaranteed virus free and disease free stock.

2-pound bag of tubers, plants 20 to 25 feet of row.

Details

Genus: Solanum
Species: tuberosum
Variety: Sangre
Item Form: Bareroot
Category: Vegetables
Bloom Season Start: Early Spring
Bloom Season End: Late Spring
Bloom Color: Lavender
Habit: Spreading
Days To Maturity: 95
USDA Zone Low: 2
USDA Zone High: 11
Uses: Beds, Cuisine, Outdoor, Vines and Climbers
Zone: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
State Shipping Restrictions: GU, HI, ID, MT, PR, VI
Shipping Method Restrictions: none
Discount Exempt: No

Recommendations

Reviews

Write Your Own Review
Only registered users can write reviews. Please Sign in or create an account
Copyright © 1997-2023, Wayside Gardens. All rights reserved.