Rockvale Farm has grown many different varieties throughout the years to keep up with an ever changing market. This has ensured that all our customers receive exactly what they require, and are completely satisfied at all times. We have an excellent track record in growing trials for customers and investigating new varieties. Over the years our company has grown in excess of 18 different varieties and continues to trial new potato varieties every year.
Planting
Potato Drills
Emerging Potato Crop
Potato Blossoms
Harvesting Potatoes
Potato Storage Boxes
Current Varieties
Markies
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Markies
Availability: September - July
Chipping
Peeling
Markies are a late maturity variety with smooth yellow skin and light yellow flesh colour. They are big tubers with a long oval shape and shallow eyes. They are uniform in size and shape. Due to excellent dry matter content, they fry well leaving a great fry colour and absorb less oil when fried for chips or crisps. Markies are primarily grown for the chipping, crisping and peeling market.
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Ramos
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Ramos
Availability: August - December
Chipping
Peeling
Ramos is an early to medium maturity variety with a light yellow skin and a creamy flesh. It has a uniform oval shape with shallow eyes and smooth skin making it a favourite for peeling or chipping. The variety is also suitable for baking, boiling, roasting or steaming.
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Rooster
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Rooster
Availability: Year Round
Table Potatoes
The Rooster is Ireland's most popular variety, mainly because of its attractive bright red skin and floury yellow flesh. It has a uniform roundish shape with shallow eyes making it easy to peel. It is a general-purpose potato and can be boiled, mashed, chipped, roasted, steamed or baked, and will always taste delicious.
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Kerr's Pink
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Kerr's Pink
Availability: September-May
Table Potatoes
An old Irish favourite, Kerr's Pinks have white skin with pink shading and deep set eyes. They have a distinctive dry floury flavour. Kerr's Pinks are suitable for a wide range of uses including boiling, baking and chipping but are at their best simply steamed in their beautiful white and pink skins.
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Agria
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Agria
Availability: August - July
Chipping
Peeling
Agria is a variety suitable for fresh table consumption, french fries/chips and it also crisps well. The cooking type is floury, with excellent fry qualities. Agria has big, oval long tubers, a yellow skin and deep yellow flesh colour. The dry matter content is high.
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Beo
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Beo
Availability: August - June
Crisping
Beo is a specialist crisping variety, with high dry matters and low reducing sugars. It has early crop maturity and is suitable to quality crisp production either fresh or from long term storage. They are uniform, round tubers that produce a golden crisp when fried.
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Lady Rosetta
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Lady Rosetta
Availability: August - October
Crisping
Lady Rosetta is a specialist crisping variety, with high dry matters and low reducing sugars. It has early crop maturity and is suitable to quality crisp production either fresh or from short term storage. Moderate to high yields of uniform, round tubers.
