Cultivar and disease resistant potato variety “Queen Anna”: characteristics, description, photo

More recently, the Anna Koroleva variety, which is productive and resistant to many diseases, was tested and included in the State Register of the Russian Federation.

In addition to these advantages, the variety has a great appearance of root crops, good taste and the ability to grow on almost any soil.

In this article we will describe in detail what the Queen Anne potato is, what are the peculiarities of cultivation and other characteristics.

Variety description

“Queen Anne” is an early ripe variety, from the moment of the emergence of most shoots to technical maturity no more than 80 days pass, you can start eating potatoes until the end of the vegetative period, conditional maturity comes before the technical one.

The root crop has dense smooth yellow peel and yellow pulp of firm structure. The eyes on the peel are small, planted shallowly, practically on the surface.

The presence of surface eyes facilitates cleaning and further processing of potatoes, such potatoes are more convenient for packaging.

Form - oblong, elongated - oval. Potatoes have a high percentage of marketability - more than 94%.

Weight - from 84 g to 140 g., Dimensions - reaches more than 10 cm in length. Starch content - from 13 to 15% - the border between low content and high.

Attention! The amount of starch depends on weather conditions - in a dry hot summer starch in tubers will be more than in rainy.

Fertilizers affect the level of starch, do not allow it to decline.

Potatoes with low starch content - up to 14% suitable for cooking soups, salads, boiling potatoes - are not boiled soft during heat treatment.

In the table below you can see how many percent of starch is found in other varieties of potatoes and compare them with this:

Specifications

The bushes of the Queen Anna potato variety have the following distinctive characteristics:

• Escape sprawling erect or half-standing shrub of medium size.
• The leaves are large and have a typical potato shape, wrinkled structure with slight pubescence, dark green in color, spaced apart.
• A lot of flowers, corolla large white.

Climatic zones of cultivation

Successful testing of potatoes was carried out in the Middle Volga region. Queen Anna due to precocity may be grown throughout the territory of the Russian Federation and nearby countries, as well as in Europe. In arid regions, good watering is required.

Yield

The yield of "Queen Anne" exceeds the standards of the Middle Volga region, the maximum yield of 450-500 centners from 1 hectare, with the first sample on the 45th day after germination about 100 centners from 1 hectare collected. Practically does not have small potatoes when digging into technical maturity.

The yield of other varieties for comparison is presented in the table below:

Using

The variety is an early, table, intended for use after heat treatment, more suitable for frying, soups and chips.

Taste qualities

Queen Anne is noted for excellent taste and rich “potato” flavor, like all varieties of yellow potatoes. Potatoes do not taste bitter, have not very pronounced sweetish taste. It does not fall apart, it will look great on a festive table as a side dish.

A photo

We suggest that you visually familiarize yourself with the “Queen Anne” potato - a noble type, the description of which is set forth above on the photo we proposed:

Advantages and disadvantages

Deficiencies were not found, nuances in the form of single diseases are possible. It needs watering in dry weather, it has moderate resistance to dryness.

Differs such virtues:

• bountiful harvest;
• large, almost equal in size, root vegetables;
• surface eyes;
• excellent taste;
• high content of carotene;
• resistance to mechanical damage;
• high resistance to major diseases;
• it is not exacting to soil type;
• long stored.

Storage does not require any special conditions. In our articles you will find detailed information on storage conditions in the winter, on the timing and choice of the right place.

Country of breeding

Queen Anne "bred by breeders from Germany. In the Russian Federation, he proved himself from the good side, passed all the tests. In the State Register of the Russian Federation in the Middle Volga region recently included, in 2015.

Features

Growing

“Queen Anne” is an early variety, it is possible to start cultivation from April, usually they start planting in mid-May. Agrotechnics is nothing complicated.

Too low or too high temperatures adversely affect potato germination., for planting it is necessary to choose not hot weather, the soil temperature at a depth of about 10 cm should be heated to at least 10 degrees.

Early potatoes should not be kept in the ground after ripening. A week before planting, potatoes need to be sorted out (pick up spoiled rodents or very small root vegetables). Queen Anna responds well to pre-highlighting.

Gardeners often leave green tubers for seeds, such potatoes cannot be eaten because of the high content of poisonous substance - corned beef, but they germinate the following year and develop much better.

Reference. Corned beef - a substance that is formed in the potato with a long stay in the sun, in small quantities, it is not dangerous for the body, but in large quantities will cause harm.

Potatoes of this variety develop many tubers, so more distance is required between plants, at least 20 cm. Potatoes should be planted in furrows or on beds in highly moist soil. The type of soil is not important, but the potassium content should be high..

It behaves well when loosening, hilling, weeding. Fertilizers fertilizer required. About how and when to make them and how to feed potatoes when planting, read the individual articles of our website. For the successful development of tubers, the flowers on the shoots should be cut off.

Storage

Most early ripe potato varieties are not stored for long. Queen Anna, with almost zero constant temperatures, transports storage positively, the main condition is a dry dark place.

Diseases and pests

This potato has a high percentage of resistance from late blight of the tubers and shoots, the cyst-forming nematode, potato cancer, wrinkled banded mosaic and leaf rolling.

Attention! Planting potatoes next to tomatoes or to areas where tomatoes grew last season is not allowed - they have common diseases and pests.

Prophylactic spraying in dry weather against insect pests is needed.

Everyone knows that the Colorado potato beetle is the main pest of potato and tomato plantings.

We offer you a useful material on the fight against it, read all about chemical preparations and folk remedies against adults and beetle larvae.

“Queen Anne” conquers all gardeners with an abundance of harvest and taste.

In the table below you will find links to varieties of potatoes with a variety of ripening periods presented on our website:

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