Treatment of potato seeds before planting

The late spring has finally begun! With the advent of the sun, the snow melts very, very quickly, so it’s time for gardeners to actively begin this year’s sowing campaign in order to get a harvest in their garden plots on time.

Mid-April is the best time to prepare for sowing potatoes. Many people prefer to grow it on their plots, because their own potatoes are always tasty and crumbly! Therefore, today we’ll talk about how potato seeds are processed before planting, which allows you to get a rich harvest and excellent taste.

After the autumn harvest, you, of course, selected the best seeds from the potato bushes. Now it is necessary to move the selected tubers from the basement, cellar or other cold storage place to a well-lit place with a temperature of 15-20 degrees in order for the vernalization process to begin, i.e. sprouting potato buds.

After about a week, when the potato tubers have awakened and warmed up, they should be treated with solutions of mineral fertilizers. It is good to use melt water to prepare the solution, since there is still a lot of snow outside the city. Superphosphate is diluted in it with the addition of copper sulfate, potassium permanganate, and urea. Processing potato seeds will go faster if the tubers are placed in a net and dipped in a mixed disinfectant-nutrient solution for several minutes. This treatment will speed up the emergence of seedlings for about 5 days.

Then the tubers treated with fertilizers should be placed again in a room with good lighting, but not in direct sunlight. At least once a week, spray the seed with warm water so that the potatoes do not lose moisture, and turn them from barrel to barrel.

When the weather becomes steadily warm, then we can plant our potatoes. I advise you to wait for weather conditions when the soil is warmed up to 8-10 degrees. This will ensure rapid germination and will not allow the newly planted material to freeze.