Potato
Spunta potato
Spunta potato: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
'Spunta' is a variety of Solanum tuberosum, the potato species in the nightshade family. Its tubers are often large, with an oval to elongated shape that looks more stretched than the rounded outline of many other potatoes. Yellow skin surrounds light yellow flesh. These underground parts are the edible crop: they are storage organs of the plant rather than roots. Their size varies with the growing season and conditions, although large tubers are a familiar feature of this variety. Spunta therefore has a recognisable appearance without every potato looking exactly the same.Above ground, the plant develops herbaceous stems with green, compound leaves. Its flowers, when present, are white and show its botanical relationship with other members of the same family, including tomatoes. They are not the crop normally sought in a vegetable garden. Any berries that appear among the foliage are different from the edible underground tubers. The leafy growth…
