Rocket
Variety
Rocket
Approved Data
created by Marius D at 19.12.2023
Features
Color
yellow
Taste
aromatic
Location
planting: greenhouse
planting: outdoor
Resistances
Little susceptible
Cultivation Break
4 Years
Season Overview
Sowing
Harvest
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Description
The Rocket seed was the fastest growing of all early potatoes when it was launched. The ability to grow large quantities of uniform round tubers has made it very popular and it has been regarded as one of the better exhibition potatoes. Rocket is a good potato for container or bag growing. However it is grown, it is recommended to uproot it before full maturity to avoid bursting of the tubers. It has good disease resistance to blackleg, scab and sporulation. The main culinary uses are early cooking and salads. This seed is a first early variety that is harvested as soon as it is large enough and used fresh or stored for a short time. Produces round, white-fleshed and skinned tubers with flat eyes.
Non hybrid
Not frost resistant
Growing tips
Choose a suitable day between mid-March and mid-April that is dry and frost-free. If you are growing in beds, lightly rake the prepared soil into a workable layer. Then dig a trench about 10 cm deep and place the seed potatoes 30 cm apart. Make sure that the potatoes are placed with the pink end facing upwards. This is the end with the most sprouts. Once the potatoes are in the trench, cover them with soil and press them down lightly. A light layer of potato fertilizer can be applied to the top of the trench. Watering the trenches is not necessary at this stage, but may become necessary in the following months if the weather is warm and dry.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Moist
Soil
Light (sandy)
Nutrient requirement
High
Plant distance
30 cm
Row spacing
60 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
