Relatively new variety. Great skin finish making it a good candidate for the show bench. Makes very good chips
Rocket seed potatoes when first released in 1987 were the quickest bulking of all early potatoes. Rockets ability to grow large crops of uniformed round tubers made it very popular.
Considered to be one of the better exhibition potatoes at the time. Tubers are white fleshed and skinned with shallow eyes with a mild taste.
There is good resistance to blackleg, common scab and spraing.
Lifting of Rocket before full maturity is recommended to avoid tubers cracking.