Growing potatoes, potato varieties in pictures

Personally, I can’t imagine life without fried potatoes and without mashed potatoes, therefore, with the arrival of spring, I always plant early varieties of potatoes on my summer cottage in order to reap the long-awaited harvest as early as possible.

Everyone knows that there are a great many varieties of potatoes, but when I saw potato varieties in pictures on the Internet, I was amazed at their abundance and diversity.

Potatoes are a very unpretentious crop and will not grow even with a very experienced gardener; the main thing is to choose the right variety for a particular area, because the soil and climatic conditions are completely different everywhere.

Economically valuable characteristics of different potato varieties:

• productivity;
• precocity;
• taste qualities;
• starch content in tubers;
• resistance to certain diseases;
• storage time during winter.

In central Russia, early potato varieties are usually planted, such as “Arina”, “Vyatka”, “Vesna”, “Uralsky early”. The latter variety is especially good; the tubers of this potato have excellent taste. But it should be remembered that such varieties are quite capricious, they are more often susceptible to various diseases and produce a poorer harvest.

In addition to early potato varieties, there are:

• mid-early;
• mid-season;
• mid-late and late;

A very good and unpretentious variety is the mid-early variety “Volzhanin”; this variety tolerates drought well and is not resistant to late blight and cancer.The tubers of these potatoes are incredibly crumbly and ideal for making mashed potatoes.

For winter consumption of potatoes, it is recommended to cultivate mid-season and mid-late varieties, as they have very good taste and are stored well throughout the winter.

Having once seen potato varieties in pictures on the Internet, now I experiment and plant first an early variety, and then a later one, so I harvest potatoes twice a summer!