How to grow a good potato crop?
How to grow a good potato crop? Both in spring and autumn, this issue worries gardeners and summer residents.
How to grow a good potato crop? In order to get a good harvest, it is necessary to observe all the nuances at each stage of cultivation. Before planting potatoes, the field needs to be prepared. It's needed treat with herbicide and plow up. The choice of potatoes for planting and its variety directly determine the future harvest. Potatoes required sort, we remove diseased and damaged tubers, leaving healthy tubers the size of a chicken egg. You can pre-tubers soak in nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizer.
Potatoes should be planted at the moment when the eyes on the potatoes have already woken up and started to grow, but they should not outgrow. Because in this case they become brittle. You can start planting potatoes when the ground warms up. up to eight degrees Celsius. Potatoes are planted deep about 6-8 centimeters. At this level the ground will be quite warm. When the first potato sprouts appear on its surface cover with earth, which is taken from the row spacing. In this way, weeds that did not die during etching or whose seeds flew into the potato field are destroyed.
It is necessary not to forget about fight against the Colorado potato beetle. Periodically potatoes fed. Water the potatoes if there has been no rain for a long time.
Potato varieties must be changed periodically so that the variety does not degenerate and a high and high-quality harvest is maintained.
Comments
In my opinion, the yield depends very much on the quality of the soil. No matter how hard we tried on our plot, the yield was not high. Although the potatoes were still very tasty and beautiful in appearance.
Productivity also depends on the quality of harvesting. Here is information on potato diggers:
And in our family we have a rule: when harvesting, we always leave only good, large and healthy tubers for seed potatoes. If you plant small and inconspicuous potatoes, then you will get a meager harvest, it has already been verified!
Thanks for the useful article!
However, I would like to know more about the fight against the Colorado potato beetle. And in general with pests. So far I have only learned to deal with moles (with the help of an ultrasonic repeller, we have an ecosniper LS-997R - there are no more moles). I don’t know much about other pests.