Grow and cook your own potatoes fresh from the vegetable patchmain crops if planted in mid march would be ready to harvest within 15 20 weeks desiree has high resistance to potato virus y and powdery scab with a floury tasting feel this variety has a firm cooked texture and is good for boiling baking chips and mashdesiree is a red skinned potato a heavy cropper with a firm pale yellowy waxy flesh is of main crop maturity and offers brilliant early bulking