WAYS TO GROW POTATOES

The dream of every summer resident and a gardener is to grow a high crop of potatoes. That is why the main task of the gardener is the high-yielding cultivation of potatoes. How to do it? Which potato varieties are better to choose? How to grow potatoes in different ways? Answers in this article.

Secrets and rules of growing high-yielding potatoes

The right choice of varieties of potato with high quality tubers. Repeated use of small planting material can lead to the fact that there will be no harvest at all.
Understanding and control of the emergence of new potato tubers.
Fertilizer selection. The most common fertilizers for potatoes are manure, wood ash, potassium superphosphate, humus.
The same plot of land for growing potatoes can be used for no more than five years in a row. In order to clear the soil of pathogens, in the fall should be planted winter rye on the site.
To collect a double crop of potatoes, use early varieties.

The technology of growing high-yielding potatoes

Soil preparation is best done in the fall, immediately after harvesting the previous crop. This is done as follows: with the help of ropes or pegs make the markup on the site. To do this, 40 cm is left at the edge of the site, then a ditch is dug further (ditch width 25-30 cm, depth - 40-45 cm).

After 50-60 cm make another ditch, and so it is done to the end of the site. The earth dug between the trenches is laid with mounds. The location of the trenches should be necessarily from north to south. In the fall in the trenches, you can put the remains of plants, weeds, kitchen waste. All this late fall asleep layer of fallen leaves. Tamper and condense the plant mass can not.

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A month and a half before planting potatoes, the tubers must be germinated and discarded substandard. Planted potatoes in the ground in early spring. Ash, superphosphate and manure are poured into the prepared trenches.

You can use only manure and one fertilizer of your choice. Then, at a depth of 7-8 cm, potato tubers are planted and covered with earth. As soon as the potato stalks have reached 10–15 cm in length, it is necessary to pile it up, that is, to fill it up with soil.

The hilling process is repeated several times. It depends on the degree of growth of the stems. Throughout this time, potatoes should be watered. Depending on the climate and weather conditions, watering may be more frequent or, on the contrary, rare. The lack of weeds affects the production of high yields, so you have to constantly fight them. You should also fertilize potatoes.

A month before harvesting, the irrigation and fertilizer procedures are stopped, and hilling and tillage continue in the same way. Harvesting potatoes is carried out in early autumn.

Ways to grow potatoes are standard (planting tubers in open ground) and non-standard (planting in a barrel, planting under a black film, planting in a bag, planting in straw, etc. Let's consider one of these non-standard methods.

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Growing potatoes under straw

This method is over a hundred years old. Very much like and suits those people who are very busy and they have little time left for the garden. It is also good to use in regions with a hot, arid climate during the summer. Straw here serves as a protector from high air temperatures, and also contributes to the development of the necessary moisture for the plant.

How to grow potatoes under straw? Prepare a compacted garden, which lay out the potato tubers. At the same time they should be pressed a little into the ground. Then the tubers are covered with a layer of straw, the thickness of which should be 10-20 cm. In order to avoid future weeds, you can increase the layer of straw to 25 cm and cover it with an opaque film.

After the shoots have sprouted to the film, cuts are made in it. You can also not cover the film.

In this case, in the fall, when the potato trunks start to dry out, a layer of straw should be removed and the potato crop should be harvested directly from the ground.

According to the statements of people who have already used this method of growing potatoes, the yield is greater than with traditional planting.