How to grow 500 - 600 kg of potatoes per hundred square meters, and not as usual!
Honored agronomist Vladimir Ivanovich Kornilov, a famous professional potato grower. A person needs about 100 kg of potatoes per year, and a family of 4 people needs about 400 kg. According to the system of ecological organic living farming, it is necessary to carry out vernalization. By vernalization you activate tubers for rapid germination, health improvement and protection from diseases. For one hundred square meters you will need approximately 500 tubers the size of a chicken egg (70 g). POTATO PLANTING TIME Dates by zone In the middle zone (Moscow, Ufa, Chelyabinsk), potatoes are planted approximately May 8 - 10. In Perm and Yekaterinburg, they are planted around May 15th. In Voronezh, Saratov... - April 10, and in warm latitudes (Krasnodar, Rostov) they are planted around March 10, i.e. 50 days earlier. The best time for planting in our middle zone is the beginning of May (May 8 - 10). Many people look at folk signs: the unfolding of a birch leaf to the size of 2 ruble coins of the latest issue. If you planted it earlier, your potatoes may be overtaken by frost. In such a situation, the seedlings must be hilled up, that is, covered completely with soil. WE REVIVE THE SOIL, MAKE IT FERTILE... WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR THIS? Honestly, even with a smaller amount of fertilizer applied, you can get a larger harvest, but you should add organic matter, humus substances and beneficial microflora. Most of the nutrients are in inaccessible form.When we add organic matter, macro- and microelements, with the help of biota, are transferred into an accessible form and this will be enough for the plants. According to proven scientific research, 500 kg of potatoes remove 2.5 kg of nitrogen (N), 1 kg of phosphorus (P) and 5 kg (K) of potassium from one hundred square meters. Here and further we are talking only about soluble nutrients, and there are much more insoluble nutrients, that is, inaccessible to plants in the ground. It would be nice to do an analysis of your garden soil at least once. Such analyzes are carried out by agrochemical services in your city. Potatoes love loose soil, so if you have problems with this, you should add 2-3 buckets of washed sand + a bucket of humus or compost per acre. Only rotted manure can be added. We apply 40 kg of organic fertilizer Bionex, 7 kg of soft fertilizer Gumi-Omi Potato and about 4.5 kg of Gumi-Omi Potassium per 1 hundred square meters. The soil will receive nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and trace elements in sufficient quantities. Plow everything up. In this way, we revived and enriched our soil with useful elements for a long time. By the way, instead of Bionex, you can apply 20 kg of fertilizer per hundred square meters. Chicken manure is REAL, it is disinfected three times: microbiologically, thermally at a temperature of 300 degrees and with natural sorbents. PLANTING SCHEME, PREPARATION OF THE HOLES AND THE PLANTING TUBER ITSELF We make holes on the spade bayonet (25 cm), 60 cm between rows and 35 cm between holes. Do not thicken the plantings. You will not get a good harvest this way. In each hole we place a handful of soft fertilizer Gumi-Omi Potatoes and Bionex (or 1 tablespoon or half a handful of REAL chicken manure). MUST mix the contents of the hole with soil and sprinkle on top (3 cm). We do this so that as the plant grows, the roots receive constant nutrition.Two hours before planting, we begin to prepare the potato tubers. First, we soaked them in advance for half an hour in a solution of three biological products: Gumi, Fitosporin and Borogum (1 tsp + 5 tsp + 5 tbsp per 5 l of water). Or dip it in this solution, but it’s better to soak it, then the tuber will be saturated with the necessary microelements and natural phytobacteria will protect from the inside, as well as repel the attacks of bacteria and fungi with a protective film. You can also use instead of regular Fitosporin-M a biosolution of Fitosporin Olympic, which contains 90 microelements, Gumi and beneficial phytobacteria. Gumi increases the stress resistance of our potatoes during frosts and drought, and Borogum is a biological product, thanks to which the seedlings in the eyes of potatoes grow more actively and thus the future harvest increases by 20%! After soaking, place the tubers to dry. Landing. We lay the tuber horizontally so that the distance from the top of the tuber to the soil surface is 6-7 cm. After planting, level the soil with a rake to reduce moisture evaporation. Well, the potatoes are planted. Next comes care, hilling... and, of course, protection from diseases and the Colorado potato beetle. We recommend using biological preparations such as Gumi+ BTB in your garden. Gumi here increases the turgor of plant tissues, and our potatoes will be strong and less susceptible to pest activity. And BTB acts already at the larval stage, disrupting the digestive system of insects and significantly reducing their ability to reproduce. Gumi+BTB is absolutely safe for the environment and does not accumulate in the crop. The waiting period between processing and eating potatoes is only 5 days. Wishing you large and healthy harvests!
We have been using Nanomix liquid foliar fertilizer for potatoes and have been getting a yield of around 500 kg per hundred square meters for several years now. The fertilizer is easy to use, just dilute it to the desired consistency and spray it.
Doesn’t anyone worry that in this way you will get potatoes with a huge amount of nitrates and other harmful substances that shoppers in stores are so afraid of? We need to strive not for quantity, but for quality. And if you want a larger harvest, you need to select the seeds correctly and care for them, and not pour tons of fertilizer.
Of course, if there are a lot of potatoes, this does not mean that all the harmful substances are in a balanced state and their level does not exceed the norm. Therefore, it would be better to choose the right planting material rather than plant everything in a row.
And I have no idea how many potatoes we collect. We have never weighed it, and we have not one hundred square meters, but four. We dig it up, scatter it on the ground, dry it and put it in bags. And then to the cellar.
It is quite possible to weigh the potatoes in one bucket and then fill the bags with it. Then it will be possible to fill the bags with this bucket and determine how many potatoes have grown on four acres.