Why mow the tops of potatoes before digging? plus many

Welcome gardeners!

Today I decided to tell you about one interesting feature - mowing (or cropping!) Potato tops shortly before digging carefully grown tubers. Maybe someone from the readers of know-how cause confusion and even indignation. But if critically evaluate the results, it becomes clear that the benefits of this action is, and rather big.

Why timely pruning bushes potato is beneficial - and harvest, and to gardener? And how do things right? I cover these fad in a note 📝

Kosi, spit!

Benefits mowing potato tops - not empty fabrications those who are itching to create on my site something original. Here are the reasons why to take a haircut on arms worth every ovoschevodu:

✅ The most important thing was I was convinced from my own experience - to dig potatoes without green dowry much easier. Tough stems do not fall under the shovel and not get confused in the forks.

✅ Hemp tops precisely prompt, where the center of

little family of tubers, and is much easier to determine the trajectory of motion. I cleaned the tops rake immediately after cutting, so after work and so exhausting digging much less. That for such a lazy summer resident, I can not help but be a significant plus. And leave crop residues on potato mini-golf - as for me, not comme il faut.

✅ Pruning potato leaves - not just a recommendation, and the persistent requirement for planting, contaminated Phytophthora. It is worth to delay - and already the tubers will be spoiled, absolutely unsuitable for productive storage. Not all gardeners know and notice the first signs of Phytophthora. Therefore it is better to be safe than nedobzdet ☝

✅ Our "second bread" - a culture with a certain cycle of development. Formation of tubers due to the functioning of the green part is only in the next month after flowering. therefore benefit from the stems / leaves now, already at sunset of the summer, there is no.

✅ "potato" The system is designed so that the body maintains a balance between the above-ground part and underground. The more green leaves, the lower thickness peels of root crops. Everyone is aware that the new potatoes for long-term storage is practically unusable. If the pre-remove the tops, at the time of digging peel potatoes become thicker and the harvest will be better kept.

✅ Probably many noticed that without the intervention of the experimenter's hand-grower on the same randomly potato field greens dries unevenly. Look, there, in the barn, half of the band had almost dried up. And mangalnoy bushes zone are cheerful as July! This is - a vivid sign of the uneven ripening of tubers. Why is this happening, I tried to explain above it is available. Squinting in advance tops, summer resident deliberately provoke maturation opozdashek.

Enough? And now about how to do everything correctly and not nakosyachit 😇

Potato haircut algorithm

1. You can mow or cut potato tops anything. Although sickle, though advanced innovations garden machinery. My husband does a good old spit. The main thing - keep penechki height of 10-15 cm.

2. After flowering, wait at least a month. I already wrote that, during the 30 days after wilting buds green part of the plant still needs to build up large nodules!

3. Sick phytophthora potatoes? It is not necessary to test Flora - it is better to remove and destroy damaged shoots.

4. I mow the tops for 10-14 days prior to the scheduled harvest date. Sometimes, as in this year, guided by the state of plants: shrubs 70-80% withered (excluding illness) - send her husband's oblique and bear the date of excavation. The main thing is that by cutting up the excavation was 10-14 days. Note has been helpful? Please put "Thumbs up!" All good potatoes! ☺