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 tasting feel this variety has a firm cooked texture & is good for boiling, baking, chips & mash. Desiree is a red-skinned potato. A heavy cropper with a firm, pale, yellowy, waxy flesh, is of Main crop maturity & offers brilliant early bulking.