Is it necessary to treat potatoes before planting?

Treating potatoes with chemicals before planting is considered by many to be a panacea, but it has both positive and negative sides.

Negative side The point is that all summer residents and gardeners want to grow absolutely pure vegetables without any treatments or chemical additives, but after processing the potatoes, we still introduce chemicals. There are also reviews from those who treated potatoes with chemicals before planting - their taste changes, and there is no guarantee that in the end you will not eat potatoes with chemicals.

Positive side processing is that it still protects the potatoes from beetles and all sorts of diseases. Most of those who process potatoes claim that in the end they get a good harvest, beautiful and tasty potatoes, and also spend less effort on caring for potatoes.

And here Treatment of potatoes before planting with a mixture of mineral fertilizers and ash is desirable. This will help speed up the germination of tubers and strengthen their protective mechanisms. Many also advise washing potato tubers with potassium permanganate before planting; this promotes the germination of strong shoots and strengthens the protective forces of the tubers.

You can make a protective-stimulating mixture: dissolve a teaspoon of boric acid, a teaspoon of copper sulfate and a teaspoon of potassium permanganate in ten liters of water.We carefully place the selected, already slightly sprouted tubers in a net and lower them into the mixture for fifteen minutes, then take them out, let the mixture drain and heavily powder all the tubers with wood ash.

For planting, you should choose large, clean tubers, such tubers are strong and give a good harvest, choose a good area with fertilized soil, do not forget about watering and fertilizing, observing the dose of fertilizers. Weeds that sprout should be cut with a hoe and left in the area with potatoes as mulch.