Grow & Cook Your Own Potatoes Fresh From The Vegetable Patch Main crops: If planted in Mid March would be ready to harvest within 15-20 weeks. Desiree has high resistance to Potato Virus Y & Powdery Scab. With a floury taste, this variety has a firm texture when cooked & is good for boiling, baking, chips & mash. Desiree is an oval, red skinned potato, produces a bountiful harvest, with a firm, pale, yellow, waxy flesh, is of Maincrop maturity & offers bountiful crops & early bulking.