Maintains its purple color after boiling, roasting or frying. Packed with anthocyanins, powerful antioxidants that can lower risks of heart and neurological diseases. The plants are ostentatious with sprawling blue-tinted foliage.
Although tuber dormancy is short and Blue is susceptible to scab, scurf and CPB, its appearance is awfully festive. Walter de Jong and his potato-genetics buddies at Cornell released Addie Blue in 2003.
The word Adirondack is thought to come from the Mohawk word ha-de-ron-dah meaning ‘eaters of trees.’ French missionary Joseph-François Lafitau recorded that the word was used by the Iroquois as a derogatory term for groups of Algonquins who did not practice agriculture and therefore sometimes ate tree bark to survive harsh winters.
Note: storage life is short, so seed may be ugly when it arrives. Plant them anyway—odds are they’ll be just fine.
We have no suitable substitutions for this unusual variety: even if you accept substitutions, you will receive a refund instead of potatoes if this variety is out of stock.
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