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
• Yield: very good yields with large percentage of marketable tubers
• Tuber Set: TBD
• Specific Gravity: moderate, 1.077 to 1.082
• Diseases: Resistant to blackspot, common scab, Golden nematode (Ro1). May be susceptible to hollow heart and brown center.
• Storage: Dormancy is about two weeks longer than Atlantic.
• Market: Fresh market, tablestock, chipping.
• Advantages: Attractive shape, relatively few pickouts, low levels of internal defects. Chips well from storage.

• Plant
  • Growth habit/Canopy:
  • Efflorescences: white
  • Stems:
  • Leaves:
• Tubers
  • Shape: somewhat irregular, round to oblong, slightly flattened
  • Eyes: moderately shallow
  • Skin: uniform, moderately smooth netted skin; buff color
  • Flesh Color: pale to moderate-yellow
• Other
  • Tubers have been described as "strikingly pretty" with fine skin and "bright appearance"

• Taste, flavor: Good
• Texture: Good
• Sloughing/Graying: Resists sloughing. Resists graying
• Uses, presentation: Very good boiled. Good fried and baked.
• Nutrients: TBD