Named after Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley where many field trials were run under Dr. B. Christ's observation. A "blue-collar" variety with high yields and which grows well in many climates. "We're unlikely to have a season where it bombs." Dr. DeJong favors Lehigh for his own dinner table because of its texture, flavor and versatility.

• Maturity: Mid to mid-late season (relative to Atlantic)
• Yield: Medium to High (~366 cwt/a, marketable), with large percentage being marketable tubers
• Tuber set: Medium, slightly less than Atlantic, but tuber weight is greater
• Nitrogen: 125-150 lb./a. (mineral soils); 100 lb./a. (muck)
• Specific gravity: Moderate (1.077 to 1.082), slightly less than Atlantic
• Diseases: Resistant to blackspot. Tolerant to common scab,. Susceptible to Golden nematode (Ro1), late blight, leaf-hoppers, CPB.
• Storage: Dormancy is about two weeks longer than Atlantic.
• Market: Fresh market, tablestock, chipstock, i.e. chipping (from storage)
• Advantages: Attractive shape, striking yellow flesh color, relatively few pickouts, high yielding results across diverse growing regions, chips better than most yellow-fleshed varieties

• Plant
  • Growth habit/canopy: Semi-erect. Shorter plant with a less upright growth habit than Yukon Gold
  • Efflorescences: White, with yellow anthers
  • Stems: Absent or very weak anthocyanin coloration, medium thickness, low swelling at nodes
  • Leaves: Medium green, closed to intermediate silhoulette
• Tubers
  • Shape: somewhat irregular, round to oblong, slightly flattened
  • Eyes: moderately shallow
  • Skin: Uniform, moderately smooth netted skin, buff color. Yellow at base of eye.
  • Flesh color: Pale to moderate yellow with no secondary color
• Other
  • Tubers have been described as "strikingly pretty" with fine skin and "bright appearance"

• Taste/flavor: Good
• Texture after cooking: Resists sloughing. Medium. Good.
• Uses: Very good boiled. Good baked and fried.
• Presentation: Resists graying, does not turn gray after boiling