Scientists recommend on how to plant potatoes
May started, the sun finally warms up, and there are potato growers starting their work. They are waiting when, as required by technology, the soil warms up to 8-10 degrees. According to popular belief - this is the beginning of the blooming of birch. And it doesn’t matter if you are a week late for this moment - potatoes prefer warm soil.
“Second bread” is probably the only product that does not bore. From it, according to literature, you can cook 2,000 different dishes. But how to grow a high yield?
The leading researcher of TatNIIKh, candidate of biological sciences Zenon Stashevsky names the main conditions for obtaining high yields on potato plantations. These are, firstly, favorable weather conditions, and secondly, technological factors - soil and its preparation, varietal seeds, planting protection against weeds, pests and diseases, storage.
We are not safe from the vagaries of the weather. Unless we can pour potatoes in the heat, but there is no salvation from showers or hail. But we can properly prepare the soil: it must be fertile and well dug up. Planting tubers must be pre-vernalized by air-solar heating. These tubers acquire a green color.
If you plant potatoes under a shovel, as many people do, then rows are placed at a distance of 60-70 cm from each other.
Zenon recommends such varieties as Courtney, Reggae, Samba, Zumba, Tango. Many lovers of such varieties as Red Scarlett, Vineta, Zekura, Luck, Roco. Each variety has its own characteristics. Some people like highly starchy, boiled tubers, others like a beautiful round shape, easy to peel, with a white peel, with a red one ... You can buy everything from the breeders of the Tatar Scientific Institute of Agriculture at the base in the village of Bolshiye Kabany of Laishevsky district, (843) 277-51-04, 89173954758.
But planting is just the beginning of a long way to form the crop of the “second bread”. How to form it is a separate article. In the meantime, we recommend processing seed tubers against the Colorado potato beetle. There are a lot of drugs in garden centers. You can use the proven Prestige and Actara.