Cecile is an excellent salad potato with a fine gourmet quality taste, developed for the haute cuisine restaurant trade in Europe. You could call Cecile a "modern fingerling", with the same quality but easier to grow and easier to peal.
Long oval shapes with a smooth beautiful red skin and bright yellow flesh color. Shallow eyes. High number of tubers per plant.
Cecile will quickly develop a high, good ground covering foliage with erect, tall stems.
Resistant to Golden Nematodes and immune to Wart disease. Also good resistance to Common Scab.
Perfect for salads as well as boiled or steamed. Waxy type tubers with fiirm texture. Excellent quality.Cecile is ideally suited for meals requiring that special touch as flavor and plate presentation are unsurpassed.
Good drought resistance, easy to grow and has a low nitrogen requirement. Adequate top killing is very important. Cecile has a strong foliage. Skin set takes time. Short dormancy.