Newcomer from Europe - Granada potatoes: variety description, characteristics and photos

If you have tried many types of potatoes, but have not found that one, then you can look at the new budding varieties. One of these is our guest today - Granada potatoes.

This is a newly bred European potato variety, which has not yet been registered in Russia. However, it has many positive characteristics, because of which it will be useful to get acquainted with it now.

Potato Granada: variety description

The variety Granada belongs to mid-late potato varieties, its growing season is fully completed in 90 - 110 days after the first shoots. It was removed in 2015 in Germany. It is expected that in the territory of the Russian Federation Granada will be registered in 2017. Its phenomenal yield immediately catches the eye, with an average of up to 60 tons of potatoes per hectare of crops.

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

Another advantage will be keeping quality, which is kept at 97%, which allows you to keep it in cellars for long-term storage.

In the table below you will find the keeping figures for comparing Granada potatoes with other varieties:

Read more about the time, place and temperature of storage of potatoes, about the problems that arise.

We also recommend useful and informative articles about storing root crops in the winter, in vegetable storehouses, as well as in the apartment and cellar, on the balcony and in the boxes, in the refrigerator and in peeled form.

Tubers are medium in size and have an oval oblong shape. The weight of one commercial tuber is 80-100 g, and their number under one bush varies from 10 to 14. Those who grow potatoes for sale will be pleased with the fact that the tubers of this variety have a very good appearance.

The skin is thin, smooth and has a pleasant light cream color. Its pulp is also light or light yellow, contains about 10 - 17% starch. Does not darken during heat treatment or cuts. The eyes are usually small and evenly located on the entire surface of the fetus. Popularity variety is also added to the taste and benefits of root crops. Read all about the properties of potatoes: the danger of solanine, whether it is possible to eat raw potatoes, why they drink potato juice and eat sprouts.

Shrubs in a variety of height can not boast and belong to the intermediate type. They are mostly low, although in some cases they grow to medium sizes. The leaves of Granada are also small and have a light green color. During flowering, the tops of the bushes are covered with flowers with white corollas.

Characteristics and features of cultivation

Many western farmers and specialists note the excellent taste qualities of this variety and rate them at 4.8 points out of 5 possible. Due to a sufficient amount of starch in the potatoes, it does not boil soft and does not darken. Tubers of this plant can be used to prepare almost any homemade dishes.

As for the characteristics of planting and care, in general, we can say that the Granada potatoes are not too whimsical. Seed potato varieties of Granada, you can begin to select in the fall, it is best suited exactly large tubers with the best bushes.

This will subsequently provide a more abundant and high-quality crop.. Selected tubers are placed in wooden boxes and covered with peat mixed with soil (tubers should sink about two-thirds of the depth of the box).

The resulting seedlings are covered with film and left on a well-lit place with a temperature of about 12 - 14 ° C. Sprouts begin to appear within two to three weeks. From one germinated tuber should take no more than two shoots. Chances are that all subsequent ones will be weak and will give a poor harvest.

Landing is carried out in late April or early May.. By that time, the soil should already be warm to ~ 8 ° C, and all the frosts will be left behind.

Between the rows of potatoes should do the intervals of 70 cm, it will provide your plants with air, light and facilitate you hilling. In the rows between the planting material should be kept at a distance of 25 - 30 cm. Mulching between rows will help in weed control and maintain the correct microclimate.

IMPORTANT! Depending on the type of soil planting material is buried at different depths. If your beds are surrounded by clay soil, then the depth of the digging should not exceed 5 cm. If you plant seedlings in loose soil, then it will be buried to a depth of about 10 - 12 cm.

Agrotechnology is nothing complicated and the subsequent care of the plant will require you to perform several basic procedures:

• Never forget about hilling, it stimulates the formation of underground shoots, and also protects immature shoots from the still not too warm spring weather.

  Read more about whether hilling is necessary, what technical means it is better to produce, what differs manual and with the help of a motor-block. And also, is it possible to grow a good crop without weeding and hilling.

• Granada tolerates drought well, and therefore does not need abundant watering. If you live in regions with frequent rainfall, then until flowering your plants will not need manual watering. In the southern areas, watering should be done every 10 days.
• As a top dressing it is best to use bird droppings and a mixture of urea, sulfate and superphosphate. The first fertilizers are introduced into the soil a month after planting.

  Read more about how to feed potatoes, when and how to apply fertilizer, what is the use of minerals and how to use them properly when planting.

A photo

See below: potato variety Granada photo

Diseases and pests

This plant as a whole has an excellent immune system, which protects it from: potato cancer, scab and golden nematode, phytophthora, and also prevents the leaves from curling and rotting of tubers.

However, Granada has a weak protection against fusarium wilt, which has the unpleasant property of rapidly spreading. With the defeat of this disease, the leaves begin to acquire an unhealthy light color, and the stems on the contrary grow brown. After a few days, the whole plant begins to fade. In the fight against this scourge can help:

• Compliance with the rules of crop rotation;
• Timely destruction of all infected plants;
• Pre-treatment of seed tubers with solutions of salts of trace elements boron, manganese and copper;
• Chemical preparations "Maxim" and "Baktofit" have proven themselves well.

Read also about such common diseases of Solanaceae, as alternarioz, late blight, scab, verticillis.

As for pests, mostly gardeners have to contend with the Colorado potato beetle and its larvae, medars and wireworms, potato moths and aphids.

We have prepared a series of articles for you to combat them.:

1. How to get rid of the wireworm in the garden.
2. What to use against Medvedka: folk preparations and chemistry.
3. We destroy the potato mole: methods 1 and methods 2.
4. Fighting the Colorado potato beetle - folk remedies and chemicals:
   • Aktara.
   • Regent.
   • Corado.
   • Prestige.

It is becoming obvious now that Granada is a premium class potato, and it will undoubtedly be a worthy competitor to all the varieties that are popular with us. The number of its advantages far exceeds the number of disadvantages, so that many gardeners are already waiting for its official registration in our country, especially since in other countries it has long been very popular.

We bring to your attention a series of interesting and informative materials about the most different ways of growing potatoes: Dutch technology and the cultivation of early varieties, methods under straw, in barrels, in bags, in boxes.

We also offer to familiarize yourself with other varieties of potatoes that have different ripening terms:

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