We study potato varieties in the photo and by description

When studying potato varieties in photos and descriptions, you may encounter a number of questions. For example, what is better – the prolific Dutch or our unpretentious one?

Content:

• Which potato variety to choose
• Brief tips on agricultural technology
• Characteristics
• Flesh colors

Which potato variety to choose

When choosing potatoes, you may find that Dutch ones are considered the best. In general, foreign varieties grown on the basis of hormones and suspicious fertilizers are prohibited as carriers GMO, have many advantages. But domestic varieties are still considered competitive. Which varieties are the most popular?

• Zhukovsky early – its ripening time is 70-80 days. This variety is loved for its plasticity. It also has good yields. Even low temperatures won't bother him. It also has some of the best taste;
• Spring white - also early ripening. This variety is a table variety and has high marketability. Potatoes have beautiful white tubers. The variety is considered tasty;
• Timo Hankkiyan has a good marketable mass of tuber. This variety was imported from Finland. All types of soil are suitable for cultivation. The tubers are round in shape, white, with good taste. Its shoots are friendly and strong. The variety is suitable when it is to be grown in drought;
• Udacha is another early ripening variety. He is very popular. You can get a large number of fruits. The first commercial harvest is obtained in June;
• Povin is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. A very popular variety.The peel is red, the tubers are round, medium in size;
• Borodyansky pink is a mid-early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are round, medium size;
• Dnepryanka is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is yellow, the tubers are round and large;
• Lugovskoy is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are oval, large;
• Tiras is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the eye stands out bright red, the tubers are oval, large;
• Slavyanka is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is red, the tubers are round and large;
• Fantasia is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are oval, large;
• Shchedryk is a mid-early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is yellow, the eye stands out bright red, the tubers are oval and large.

Brief tips on agricultural technology

When selecting a potato variety for planting, you need to study different growing conditions, features of soils in Ukraine. Based on this, it will be easier to choose the variety you are interested in.
Pay attention to studying agricultural cultivation techniques, become familiar with moisture conservation techniques such as loosening and mulching potatoes, look at planting patterns and drip irrigation.

In addition, it is advisable to take note of compliance with crop rotation requirements, otherwise the soil will be depleted and diseases and pests that are dangerous for nightshades will accumulate in it. Will help restore soil green manure.

Characteristics

Let’s touch a little on the characteristics of potatoes based on their ripening time. Potatoes of early varieties, although they produce less yield, due to their early ripening, provide early vitamins and nutrition. Often, gardeners choose early potato varieties because they tolerate dry times well and have time to gain weight.Proper collection and timely cleaning of tops will protect potato tubers from damage late blight. Many of them are well kept.

Mid-season varieties are more often susceptible to fungal diseases, and therefore require more care (regular spraying, pruning of affected tops). But you can select such high-yielding varieties that you will provide yourself and all your relatives with wonderful potatoes until the beginning of summer.

Late varieties are also demanding of care; usually these potatoes are harvested before the end of September. They are not recommended to be planted in the south, since the plants suffer greatly from drought and when the heat sets in, they try to withstand a dormant period without growing tubers. Depending on the variety, the yield is high; tubers are subject to long-term storage.

Flesh colors

Naturally, if you are deciding for the first time which variety of potatoes to choose for planting, you need to look at a lot of photos and read the descriptions. Perhaps you will choose a variety with colored pulp that is new to our latitudes. In the West and the American continent, they love varieties with pulp of cranberry, beet, blue, purple, and so on.

Our consciousness is still familiar with the creamy, yellow and occasionally pinkish colors of the pulp. Perhaps this is temporary. After all, the colored pulp contains many useful substances.

We looked at several varieties. There are many more of them. Famous Dutch Condor, Picasso, Courage, Romano, Carrera and Sante, which taste good and last a long time. Dutch early Ariel, Riviera, Prior, Red Scarlett, Estima manage to produce a magnificent harvest before it is affected by late blight. Remember that an accurate conclusion can only be drawn from experience, multiplied by the desire to get results. You can only understand which varieties of potatoes in the photo are better through practice.