Blauer Schwede / Blue Congo / Idaho Blue
Variety
Blauer Schwede / Blue Congo / Idaho Blue
Approved Data
created by Theresa1 at 25.02.2021
Features
Color
Wurzel: violett
Wurzel: bläulich
Wurzelfleisch: violett
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Propagating
Planting
Harvest
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Description
Predominantly firm-cooking, medium-early. Maturity: 130-150 days. Also called "Blue Congo" or "Idaho Blue". Blue-purple flesh. Old variety. An insider tip as a health potato and suitable in creative cuisine as a salad, baking, jacket or boiled potato. Try the Blue Swede as a baked potato, where the intense color is best preserved. Strong, slightly sweet taste. (Source: kartoffelvielfalt.de)
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
Pre-germination at 15°C = 2 weeks growth progress. Germination from 7-8°C. Cook with husk, then the blue color is less lost. Also suitable for cooler regions. Pile up a little as soon as the first shoots and leaves are there.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Light (sandy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Plant distance
35 cm
Row spacing
75 cm
Seeding depth
10 cm
Companion Plants
Bean (Broad bean / Faba bean / Field bean)
Bean (Dwarf bean)
Borage
Caraway / Meridian fennel / Persian cumin
Chamomile
Chives
Common marigold
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Corn / Maize
Currant
Dill
Forsythia
Garden cosmos / Mexican aster
Garlic
Garlic chives
Gooseberry
Grasses - Fescue
Grasses - Other
Grasses - Sedges
Kohlrabi / German turnip / Turnip cabbage
Larkspur
Lavender
Lupine / Bluebonnet
Mint
Nasturtium
Onion (Spring onion)
Oregano
Parsley
Phacelia / Scorpionweed / Heliotrope
Raspberry
Sage
Soybean
Spinach (Summer)
St. John's wort
Tagetes / Marigolds
Thyme
Weigela
Antagonistic Plants
Arctic Bramble, Mammure
Aster
Aubergine / Eggplant
Basil
Beetroot
Blackberry / Brambles
Blueberry
Broccoli raab / Stem cabbage / Cima di rapa
Brussels sprouts
Celery (Celeriac / Celery root)
Celery (Celery)
Celery (Leaf celery / Chinese celery)
Chard
Chili
Chinese kale - Kai-lan / Chinese broccoli
Comfrey
Courgette / Zucchini
Cucumber (African horned cucumber / Kiwano)
Cucumber (Caigua)
Cucumber (Melothria)
Cucumber / Gherkin
Dahlia
Elderberry
Florence fennel / Finocchio
Funk
Garden squash - Patisson / UFO squash
Hair cucumbers / snake gourds
heather family
Ivy
Jerusalem artichoke / Topinambur
Large cranberry / American cranberry
Lilac
Lingonberry / Partridgeberry / Mountain cranberry
Lovage
Make
Melon (Sugar melon)
Melon (Watermelon)
Mizuna / Japanese mustard greens
Napa cabbage / Chinese cabbage
Nightshades (Other)
Okra
Ornamental pumpkin
Pak Choi
Pepper / Paprika
Physalis
Pumpkin / Squash
Rapini / Broccoli rabe
Rosemary
Rutabaga / Swedish turnip
Sea coal
Sponge gourd / Egyptian cucumber / Vietnamese luffa
Sunflower
Tomato (Bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail bush tomato)
Tomato (Cocktail Stake Tomato)
Tomato (Stake tomato)
Turnip
Turnip greens - Choy Sum / Chinese flowering cabbage
Turnip greens - Mizuna
Turnip greens - Tatsoi
Turnip-rooted chervil
Turnips - Oilseed turnips
Turnips - Wild turnips
Yalta tomatoes
Diseases
Fusarium
Powdery mildews
Early blight of potato
Black spot of roses
Soft rot
Brown rot
Pests
Root knot nematodes
Stem borers
Land snails
Cutworms
Larvae
Ten-lined potato beetle
Nematodes
Aphids
Wireworms
Voles
