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Sarpo Axona

The SHAPE & TASTE Sarpo

Our best selling seed potato, developed to provide gardeners, allotment holders, small scale and organic growers. Axona is related to Sarpo Mira but with even better characteristics that make it easier to grow, easier to cook and with a superb taste.

Axona is a pink skinned main crop potato that is winning critical acclaim wherever it is grown and eaten. Its great blight and disease resistance, coupled with its weed smothering foliage and natural dormancy makes it ideal for the Grow It Yourself enthusiast or beginner. The potato plants come up and fill the available space with stunning dark green foliage and eye stopping pink flowers that is untroubled by Potato Blight and other diseases such as virus’ and silver scurf.

As it grows Axona fills out to produce large regular shaped tubers that can produce very large yields of very flavoursome potatoes. Whether you store your harvest or keep in the ground, Axona’s inbuilt dormancy means that it will keep fresh and without sprouting until spring.

Dr. David Shaw says …

• Superb potato taste

• Large and regular tubers

• Weed stopping foliage with pink flowers

• Extremely tolerant of blight and other diseases

• Just keeps growing and yields can be huge

Culinary Comments

Best for…

Sarpo Axona is a high dry matter potato with multiple uses to sit alongside its great cultivation characteristics. If you like your spuds chunky and full of flavour then Axona is the one for you. As an aside, Axona makes great crisps with “good fry colour and tste”

Top River Cottage Chef, Gelf Anderson says…

Made the best mash of the bunch, light, fluffy, really good flavour, a pleasure to work with

Really good chips hard to fault, light, crispy didn’t take on too much oil, really good quality

Nice cold could be put to many uses without too much needed to help it out, retained it’s flavour and maintained a good texture

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Характеристики сорта:

Включен в Госреестр по Центральному (3) региону.
Среднеспелый, столового назначения.
Растение средней высоты, листового типа, прямостоячее. Лист мелкий, темно-зеленый. Волнистость края слабая. Интенсивность антоциановой окраски внутренней стороны венчика слабая.
Товарная урожайность 169-373 ц/га, на 15-107 ц/га выше стандартов Луговской и Аврора. Максимальная урожайность 424 ц/га, на 216 ц/га выше стандарта Аврора (Тульская обл.).
Клубень удлиненно-овальный с глазками средней глубины. Кожура красная. Мякоть кремовая. Масса товарного клубня 80-149 г. Содержание крахмала 15,0-18,3%. Вкус хороший и отличный. Товарность 80-95%. Лежкость 96%.
Устойчив к возбудителю рака картофеля, золотистой картофельной цистообразующей нематоде. По данным оригинатора, устойчив к морщинистой мозаике и скручиванию листьев.

PARENTAGE

The parents of Sarpo Axona are trial varieties which have never been
released to the public. For the technical minded they are 76PO1214268 and
D187.

APPEARANCE, TASTE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SARPO AXONA

Sarpo Axona Potatoes  (click to enlarge)

The potatoes have a skin colour which ranges from dull brown to slightly
rusty-red.
They tend to have a slightly rough texture all over. The
skin is thicker than average but it has few eyes. The size varies significantly; from the same
plant you will get large baking potatoes and also much smaller potatoes and
probably every size in between. The retail trade don’t like this but for the
average cook it’s quite convenient to have a choice of sizes.

Sarpo Axona is most definitely only a maincrop potato and it produces the
largest potatoes a couple of weeks later than most other maincrops. Like
most maincrops they have a floury, rather than a waxy texture, so they are not
very good for boiling.

The reason is, floury potatoes absorb water far
quicker than waxy potatoes. This causes the outside of the potato to become
«watery» before the centre has fully cooked through. Microwaving is one
option which works for many instead of boiling. This variety stores
exceptionally well; in correct conditions many will still be edible four
months or more after harvest.

The plants themselves grow slightly taller and quicker compared to most other
varieties, so much so that weeds simply don’t stand a chance. The dense foliage also has the benefit of excluding almost all
light from potatoes growing near the surface — this prevents them turning
green. We wouldn’t grow them in very windy conditions because they are liable to
to be blown over.

Foliage and flowers of Sarpo Axona

Wind damage can be dealt with, apparently, by simply cutting away any fallen
foliage. Sarpo Axona potato plants are so vigorous that they simply sprout
new foliage and continue growing. Disease resistance is excellent,
especially to blight of the tubers and foliage. See more specific details
later in this article here.

POSITIVE POINTS FOR SARPO AXONA
High resistance to all
forms of blight, good taste, reliable variety producing good crop levels late in
the season.

NEGATIVE POINTS FOR SARPO AXONA
A few have found that the
texture was slightly more floury than they would prefer, although others prefer
the fuller texture. To reduce the floury texture, harvest the potatoes a couple
of weeks earlier than normal. See the section on harvesting dates for more information.

BUYING SARPO AXONA SEED POTATOES

Sarpo Axona has now become a relatively common variety of potato which is readily available
online and sometimes in garden centres. The company which markets them and has
breeders rights ensures that prices for this variety of potato are slightly
higher than other varieties.

We recommend buying your seed potatoes from certified suppliers because
those sold in supermarkets for consumption can be a source of disease and
pest. We would avoid buying them from online general retailers such as as
Amazon or E-bay unless you know exactly who is supplying the seed potatoes.

Buying seed potatoes from the discount store can be a good deal but it
can also result in a sub-standard crop. The discount stores take the second
quality seed potatoes whereas the more specialist suppliers take the best
quality. Unfortunately you will only find this out after you have carefully
tended your crop for several months.

ALTERNATIVES TO SARPO AXONA POTATOES

The two primary qualities of this variety are excellent blight resistance
and large crops of good tasting potatoes. The first alternate variety to
recommend would be the «sister» variety Sarpo Mira (awaiting review results)
which has many of the same qualities although it grows even taller making it
liable to wind damage. The second highly blight resistant
variety which we would recommend is the Irish bred
Setanta.

For other potato varieties which we have fully reviewed, click the drop down box below, select a
variety and then click the More Information Button.

The planting and harvest dates used below are correct for the UK average. If you want them to be even more accurate and adjusted for your area of the UK click here. It only takes a minute and the adjustment affects every date in this site and lasts for six months.

WHEN TO CHIT / SPROUT SARPO AXONA POTATOES

We recommend that you start chitting / sprouting Sarpo Axona potatoes in
the third week of February. This will give them four to five weeks to develop healthy sprouts just at the time when they are ready
to be planted out. Keep the potatoes in cool but light conditions to ensure they grow short, green
sprouts. Click here for our page dedicated to
chitting / sprouting potatoes in the UK and Ireland.

WHEN TO PLANT SARPO AXONA POTATOES

Sarpo Axona potatoes are a late maincrop variety of potato and they are ready for
harvest, if conditions are correct, approximately 20 weeks after the seed potatoes are planted. The key factor governing the time for planting all potatoes
is the date of the last frost in your area. Even a touch of frost can damage
potato plants if their foliage is above ground, an unexpected severe frost
can kill them completely.

The date for planting Sarpo Axona potato seed can be calculated on the
basis that seed potatoes will take four weeks before they appear above ground.
Given also that you want them to appear above ground only when the danger of
frost has passed
(the last week of April is the UK average)
the last week of March is about right time to plant them. If you miss this date, planting them up to a
month later will still result in an acceptable crop.

WHEN TO HARVEST SARPO AXONA POTATOES

The harvest date for all potatoes is not only dependent on when you plant
your seed potatoes, it also depends on the weather conditions throughout the
growing season. But on average you can expect your potatoes to be ready for harvest some time between
the second and last weeks of August 2017 in your area of the UK.

This maincrop variety can be left in the ground longer than the normal 18 to 20
weeks and it will increase in size for four weeks or so, growing strongly into
November in many areas of the UK. It will become more floury by the week, but it still makes a very
good potato.

PEST AND DISEASE RESISTANCE OF SARPO AXONA

The table below sets out how good or bad this variety is at resisting common pests
and diseases in the UK. The 0 point is average with minus (red) values showing lower than average
resistance and plus values (green) showing higher than average resistance.

The picture above shows a healthy crop of Sarpo Axona next to a crop of
Maris Piper which has been decimated by blight.

SUMMARY CHARACTERISTICS OF SARPO AXONA

TYPE: Late Maincrop

USE: Good for roasting, chips, saute, baked 

SKIN COLOUR / TEXTURE: Light red-brown, thick skinned

FLESH COLOUR: Cream to yellow

TASTE AND TEXTURE: Good taste, floury texture

STORAGE: Four months

POTATO SIZE: Medium to large, variable.

REGULARITY OF CROPPING: Regularly produces a good yield

AWARDS: None

SPECIAL FEATURES: Excellent resistance to all forms of blight