The battle for the harvest: how to plant potatoes

Sprouting, rearing, processing of ash and other techniques

Potatoes like everything, and it seems that every expert himself in the cultivation of this crop. But there agronomic rules that allow get a bigger harvest; there are varieties that are tastier and better than other stores. This is evidenced by the experience of the participants FORUMHOUSE, which we have studied and systematized.

Content:

• potato Features
• How to plant early potatoes
• As plant potatoes for long-term storage
• Cultural practices that enhance crop of potatoes
• Popular varieties of potatoes

potato Features

The main thing that you need to know on potato - it makes no sense to plant them early (reservation - is not the usual way, that which is, explain below).

Potato tubers start to grow at a temperature of 10 degrees. To put it in a conventional manner in the cold ground meaningless.

That is why always agronomists warn fans of early planting: Tubers useless "after spending" in the cold ground for 30-40 days, nothing will.

In this short period the potato growing season - from 60 to 120 days depending on the variety, so that to grow, he still has time, even if the heat will come to your site at the end of May. Again, with any method of planting is not necessary to dig the tubers deeply: because he is not only worse than rises, but longer ill.

How to grow early potatoes

By mid-summer, when there are normal fresh vegetables, old potatoes from the cellar there is no longer want. By this time it is possible to get an early potatoes a new crop. This potato "to eat" are planted in small amounts is much earlier than the rest, which would be stored all winter. The timing of this potato planting depends on the region - so, in the south this March or even February, and where colder - April. The method, which is used for early planting, is compatible with the cold ground, because we plant germ, and even already podroschennye potatoes.

Approximately two months before planting germinated tubers using a method for creating an artificial differential temperatures: first tubers (they must lie in the box in one or two layers) on some time is left in a very warm room from 22 to 26 degrees, after the eyes "hatch", and shoots grow up to 5mm tolerate the cool - wherever 8-10 degrees, and a lot of light. The ideal place would be a loggia or terrace with large windows. At that time, the boxes with tubers swap and tubers shift them to the light got everything - it slows down the growth rostochku.

When the left before landing 9-10 days, the tubers are placed in a moist environment. Most often it is a mixture of sawdust and compost. Technology is as follows: in a box poured sawdust and humus layer (3-5 cm) on her shift tubers - can be both careful not to break the shoots, fall asleep again with the same mixture of sawdust and compost, then a layer of potatoes over and t. d. The box is allowed a maximum of five potato layers. After potatoes covered with the upper, opilkoperegnoy properly watered to damp all of its layers, including the lowest. In this water can (and should) adding copper sulfate at the rate of 10 grams per 10 liters of water. These boxes are kept in a temperature of 15 degrees, and, if done correctly, the tubers on the third day to appear roots.

After the appearance of roots germinated potato recommended pour biostimulants: epin (polampuly 200 ml of water), succinic acid or yantarinom (0.005%).

Plain potatoes are planted when the ground warms up to +8 degrees at a depth of 10 cm. The above-described technology can not wait for this plant and the tubers in the soil is cold. It is not necessary to be afraid of, rather more dangers promises too long content in the boxes in a moist environment - the roots and rostochku will be entangled and break off.

To protect the fragile roots and rostochku, tubers can germinate in kulechkah the ground.

Nadezhda1303

Participant FORUMHOUSE

I prefer kulochki tuber with soil and germinate in a shoe box. I think March 15-18, buried in kulochki (now lodge in the light stands), planted on April 7-10.

Before planting, germinated tubers sprinkled wood ash (20 kg tubers - 1 cup ash). It is generally believed that if you make the hole in the wood ash, it will affect not only on the growth of plants, but also in the future as tubers - they will be more crumbly when cooking.

Early potatoes are planted shallow, at a depth of 5-7 cm, it will accelerate the emergence of seedlings. Landing harbor immediately lutrasilom or polyethylene film, the edges of the material is fixed, covered with earth. Covering material is removed when the seedlings grow to 25 cm, and as the weather at that time is unstable, bushes immediately spud as high as possible and thus to protect the tops of frost on the ground. If the potato is still washed frost, tops it is necessary to spray a solution of Alpin and Silko.

All these techniques will accelerate the emergence of the crop by 15-20 days: neproroschennye tubers begin to sprout Only after 1-2 weeks after planting, and about twenty days, it is necessary to wait until the first shoots seem.

How to plant a conventional potato:techniques that increase crop

Seed potatoes must be healthy, with no signs of rot or frostbitten. Skin blemish is likely to indicate fitofotoroz or other disease. Moreover, the tubers should be selected in size - then all the plants on a bed of potato will develop evenly. In most regions of our country are optimally selected for planting tubers weighing 50-80 grams.

viktor48

Member FORUMHOUSE

Typically, the seed tubers were selected, weighing 40-60 grams. Well, in the stores sell seed potatoes 20-40 grams.

Large tubers before planting germinated and cut into pieces, while if the cut showed signs of illness, can not use its entire portions; knife, which cut the tuber treated with a dark solution of potassium permanganate. Tubers should not be cut into very small pieces, and, moreover, it is risky to put some sprouted eyes.

kim555

Member FORUMHOUSE

Sprout grows much better when attached to at least part of the potatoes, for example, to 1/4 of the tuber as "derives" from it the nutrients much better than koreshochkami absorbs them from soil.

Cut the tubers before planting powdered ash.

potato banding

Many participants FORUMHOUSE at potato planting apply this technique as "ring cut". This technique stimulates the development of it and the side of the lower buds on the tuber - as a result, this leads to an increase in the number of tubers from one plant.

An incision is made before the eyes begin to "wake up", otherwise you will achieve the opposite result - Bottom eyes have not touched in growth, and a large harvest in the hole, which will be planted this tuber, you do not get.

An incision is made after a good drying tuber, a knife in the middle of the tuber, along its circumference. The notch depth should not exceed 10 mm. After the cut tubers germinated and planted without breaking a, namely as a whole.

Nadezhda1303

Banding is done to awaken all the buds at the same time. In this case, in the bush all stems almost the same size, and the tubers are more aligned in size.

Ring is not all varieties. For example, there are varieties in which almost all eyes are on the top of the tuber, and the rest part of a maximum of 2 - incision in such tubers will have no meaning. Also, do not ring potatoes for early cultivation: notched tuber may simply rot in the cold ground.

potato processing mineral fertilizers and ash

Processed before planting Potato tubers ash or mineral fertilizers, we help them to get extra power for First, the initial period of growth, and seedlings will be used for a few days, the plant will grow faster and give better tubers.

fertilizers Processing is as follows: in larger tubers grids is immersed in a solution of ammonia and sulfur superphosphate for about an hour, then carefully dried and proceed to the landing. A solution of 10 liters of water, 400 grams of superphosphate, 400 g ammonium nitrate.

ash treatment is carried out as follows: 50 tubers sprinkled kilogram of ash. This treatment is considered to be a good prevention of Phytophthora.

Potatoes are not designed to "eat in the summer," and for storage, put in a preheated ground.

RFM

Member FORUMHOUSE

Potatoes should be planted like a birch leaf will be a five-ruble coin.

Popular varieties of potatoes

Experimenting with varieties, be aware that depending on the variety, not all, on different sites in different regions of the variety may give different results. In addition, it is not necessary to wait for the first year of a great harvest.

Unskilful

Participant FORUMHOUSE

I was given the secret of the potato in the second or third year maximum yield will, accustomed to the ground.

Here is a list of varieties that have received good reviews on FORUMHOUSE. -This leads Impala variety praised for its unmatched taste. But this sort of low-lying, and that it is always in the first place koloradets throws.

Also, the participants of our portal like:

• Colette (good for early use, but is susceptible to weather conditions);
• Vineta;
• gala;

klauslarsen

Member FORUMHOUSE

gala – kartofan really delicious and beautiful, but requires good farming practices, otherwise it will be a lot of fines. Need a well seasoned with soil and plenty of water.

• Crown;
• Jelly (it grows in all conditions, but the tubers are too large);
• Trip set (similar to the Impala, but harder);
• Bellarosa;
• Adretta;
• Jelly;
• hostess;
• Picasso.

Great salad and starchy white potato varieties that will please even those who basically eats only yellow:

• Blue Danube;
• Cornflower;
• Divo;
• Petersburg's
• Nevsky;
• Sineglazka;
• the pot;
• Lorch.

Yellow varieties that have long-standing good reputation:

• Adretta;
• Pace;
• Lasunok.

Recently there colored potato varieties (With blue flesh) domestic breeding, are not only rich in antioxidants and lower blood pressure, but also really tasty: Amethyst and Northern Lights.

Good taste and potato varieties with pink flesh - Rosamar and Red Wonder.

On FORUMHOUSE you can watch a video that tells the farming practices and varieties of colored potatoes, and a video about it, how to grow potatoes from seed, Read an article about how to grow potatoes in straw, discuss Any questions potato.

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