I disinfect potatoes before planting with a 20-ruble drugstore, and no "chemistry" is needed

Any housewife knows how important it is to have self-grown potatoes in the house. The store one is inferior in taste to the home one, and every time it is not very convenient to carry from there a heavy bag of potatoes, among other products.

Only now homemade potatoes are harmful and sick, and in order to grow a good harvest, you need to try. But an interesting recipe fell into my hands, which I once tried, and now it has become my secret, which I will gladly share.

Essential iodine

Iodine is an important element not only in the human body. Plants also need it and begin to signal about it, only you need to understand it in time. If there is not enough iodine in potatoes, then it gets sick and is attacked by pests and diseases.

In addition, the process of tuber formation also requires a sufficient amount. Therefore, the use of iodine for processing potatoes in my case not only reduced the soreness of the plants, but also increased the yield and mass of tubers.

Iodine is able to solve a number of problems that arise when growing potatoes and which not all gardeners know how to deal with.

· Reduces the number of pathogenic microorganisms.

· The vegetative parts of the plant gain strength and the ability to resist disease.

· The potato begins to rapidly gain deciduous mass before our eyes.

· Phytophthora is afraid of iodine.

· Pests avoid interaction with this non-chemical agent.

For me, this discovery became in a sense salutary, because now there is no need to spend money for expensive drugs and worry about the chemical effect on potatoes when fighting pests. The twenty-ruble remedy is always freely available at the pharmacy.

Mode of application

To carry out the manipulation, a 5% alcoholic tincture of iodine is useful. For a ten-liter bucket, I use 10 drops, that is, in a ratio of 1 drop to 1 liter of water. Before planting, it is helpful to soak potato tubers that have been prepared as seeds.

Long soaking is not required enough to do this a few hours before the potatoes go into the ground. That is, the procedure itself will not cause difficulties. Many housewives prefer to water the ground with the same solution after planting potatoes, but for me personally, this is not entirely convenient. It is much easier to properly prepare the tubers for planting.

The result will not be long in coming. Soon, you will notice how the potatoes begin to gain strength, and in the fall they will give a rich harvest.