Have the potatoes come up? I advise you to do 4 things to collect an extra harvest bag

Do you want to increase the yield of potatoes from your summer cottage? Then a fiery salute, comrades, restless vegetable growers! Today I will talk about 4 useful and seemingly simple activities that allow you to dig up more tubers in the fall.

So, our seed potatoes cheerfully wave green leaves from the ground, like flags at a May Day demonstration. This means that the tubers have already spawned under the soil layer, and at first they will feed on their own reserves. But the inaction of lazy citizens is dangerous: the first month of life directly affects the further fate of our potato rows and our harvest, comrades.

When not to water and when to water

The Potato Epic: Part Two

It is not for nothing that they love to plant potatoes in Russia. It is not just a popular ingredient in both everyday and specialty dishes. She is also eerily unpretentious! My friends drunks do nothing at all with plantings except hilling, and even dig something up.

AND at first you do not need to water the potatoes

But when the lush growth of greenery begins (the stems will grow up to 10 cm) - comrade, feel free to grab the hose with water and arrange a large watering. The next grandiose watering in the absence of such luxury as rain is the beginning of flowering. At this time, the potatoes are drinking, like a gelding.

Weed the potatoes. But without fanaticism - the back is more expensive

Do not pull out every speck from the field. Monkey labor! Strong shoots of potatoes are not puny seedlings of some kind of tomatoes, which will be hammered by a mediocre quinoa.

By the way, it is now fashionable to mulch potatoes with cut grass or straw. So the earth dries up more slowly. You tried? What do you think?

But potatoes are not supposed to sit in dense weeds either. Weed out anything large that might obscure young plants. Light is incredibly important for them now and I want to emphasize this! Save energy - boldly wield a hoe between the rows.

Feed the potatoes for the first time. It is possible without chemistry

Comrade! At first, on the agenda in the growth of potatoes is a set of green mass, without which a little later it will be impossible, in turn, the desired growth of large, numerous and juicy tubers.

So, after the emergence of potato shoots, fertilize your plantation with either organic matter or nitrogen fertilizer. Do not use special fertilizers "For potatoes" yet, because they traditionally contain more potassium. Such products are good from the moment of flowering.

Of organics everything will be used: humus, compost, manure infusion. It is impractical to use dry manure, because while it breaks down in the soil into the necessary substances, the potatoes will need others. Choice nitrogen fertilizers is also great: for example, universal urea or calcium nitrate, which is indicated for use on acidic soils due to the liming effect.

And please, friend: do not miss the appearance of our good old friends - the Colorado beetles. Start the fight against the ideological enemy as soon as he is discovered.

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