Planting and growing potatoes under straw or hay, in bags, in soil, in barrels: technology and methods

• Potatoes are usually planted in the open ground in late April or early May, when the soil at the depths has already warmed up to 10 degrees.
• Potato tubers must be prepared in advance. For planting, select tubers of medium size, without rot and damage.
• One month before planting the tubers need to germinate. For this, lay them in a bright place under a layer of sawdust or peat. Air temperature should not exceed 15 degrees
• Before planting tubers can be treated with special means against pests and diseases.
• Plant potatoes in moist soil. Plant it better in the holes or grooves
• Distance between the holes should be 30 - 40 cm
• After digging a hole, throw a handful of wood ash, a few tubers of potatoes and pour the ground. Depth of the hole - 5 - 10 cm, depending on the soil density
• Places to be planted often need to be loosened and weeded
• When the shoots arise, they need to be weighed and continue weeding
• Also, you need to treat the potatoes from pests and diseases
• You often do not need to water the potatoes. Watering is required only when the soil is dry at 8 cm deep

Growing potatoes in rows for the

• motoblock Today, progress has taken a step forward and more can not bother digging holes and furrows for potatoes. There is a special device for the motoblock that will help you with the
• landing much faster. It makes beds and furrows, falls asleep with their ground, and a special nozzle will even allow you to automate the placement of potatoes in the hole
• . You set the depth and just go for the motoblock, making furrows. The first furrow should be made as flat as possible, because the rest will be made relative to it.
• You can fill the furrows with the ground manually, or you can use the
• motor cultivator. There is also a special nozzle that digs out the potatoes. Therefore, the motoblock is an indispensable helper in the garden
• The advantages of this way of planting and harvesting the harvest are speed, small labor. Also, experts say that mechanically, the earth loosens better
• Of the disadvantages can be noted the significant cost of such a device and all the necessary attachments. For an ordinary summer resident who grows potatoes for himself, the motoblock is unlikely to pay off

Motoblock for growing potatoes

Growing Dutch potatoes

• Planting potatoes in Dutch technology is based on a shallow planting of potato tubers - up to 10 cm deep. Thus, potatoes are absorbed by the heat of the earth and receive all the necessary trace elements.
• First you need to prepare the potatoes. It should be big enough - the size of a chicken egg. Potatoes need to germinate
• You need to start planting when the ground is moist and warm enough, because the potatoes are thermophilic
• Make holes and plant the germinated tubers of potatoes
• After about two weeks shoots need to be bored - cover the shoots with loose earth
• After another two or threeWe need to repeat the hilling. This will allow the potato to develop faster, protect it from diseases and parasites
• If necessary, water and weed potato beds, process from Colorado beetles

Potato planting dates in Russia, the Urals, Siberia, southern Ukraine: on which days, at what temperature, what is the last potato planting time?

Selecting the potato planting time is an important factor in obtaining a good harvest. There are several rules that will clearly help to choose the time for planting potatoes in any region:

• Soil and air temperature is a very important factor. In cold soil, the potatoes simply will not germinate, and if the air temperature drops sharply, the shoots will just freeze
• Soil should have a temperature above 6 degrees at a depth of up to 10 cm.
• The air temperature should not drop below -1 degrees, there should not be nightly strong frosts.
• Anotheran important nuance is the soil moisture. After a plentiful melting of snow, you can not immediately start landing. The soil must be moist, but with this loose

The main factor is the soil temperature. For some time, the potatoes will be in the ground and will not be affected by external temperatures. To tighten with planting, waiting for warmth, also does not cost

Approximate time for planting potatoes in different regions:

• In the Urals and the suburbs it is better to start landing in the first half of May, after the May holidays
• In Siberia, the temperature is lower, so the landing begins in late May -early June
• In the southern regions of Russia and Ukraine - in late April - early May
• In the south of Ukraine - in mid-April

Also, you can check with the lunar calendar for planting potatoes. However, you should not rely on it completely. After all, it does not take into account regional features, but only the influence of the moon's forces on plants

Potato planting dates

Potato processing before planting: germination of seeds

• Seed treatment before planting any crops to protect future crop from damage by parasites and diseases, naturally increase the endurance of
• For potatoes, the seed material is the tubers. They are usually used when planting
• Preparation begins with sorting tubers by size. For planting suitable tubers of medium size
• Material for planting should be completely healthy, obtained from healthy and strong plants. On tubers there should be no places of decay or black
• One month before planting the tubers need to germinate. To do this, they are placed in 1 - 2 rows in boxes and put in a warm place( about 15 degrees).To the boxes there must be access of light
• If there is no possibility to leave the tubers under the light, they can be warmed. For this, a higher temperature( 20 degrees) is used, and the tubers begin to germinate 2 weeks before planting
• . Also, the potato can be treated with a special stimulating agent that increases the yield. Of the most famous drugs - "Mikom", "Poteytin."Instruction for use is on the
• package. Another step is the pickling of tubers from pests and diseases. There are a lot of drugs on the market that have different spectrum of action, for example Prestige, Maxima, Aktara and others.

. Potato sprouting

. The best fertilizers for planting potatoes in the hole: mineral, ash

• .In this period, potash fertilizers( superphosphate, potassium sulfate) can be introduced. This is especially true for soils with pests and diseases
• At the site of the future planting of potatoes in autumn, after harvesting the tops, you can plant mustard white. This culture will become a natural fertilizer for potatoes in spring
• The combination of organic and mineral fertilizers in spring brings the best result. There are several schemes of fertilizer application for potatoes
• For example, per square meter of soil can be used: a bucket of humus, 3 tbsp.spoons nitrophosks and a glass of ash
• When planting potatoes can also make fertilizer. Directly in the hole throw ash or humus. From chemical fertilizers - nitrofoscu
• Before hilling, fertilizers also contribute. Among them, bird droppings, herbal infusions, mineral fertilizers( nitrogen, phosphates and potash fertilizers)

are the most effective. After that, what crops are best for planting potatoes?

The best potato precursors:

Cabbage

Salad

Cucumbers

Peas, beans

Pumpkin

Squash

Do not put potatoes after:

• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Eggplant

Do you need potting water when planting?

• When planting potatoes should not be watered. There are several reasons for this. First, the soil during the landing should already be wet. Secondly, the tuber for planting already contains some moisture, which it will give to the future shoot
• Watering for potatoes is needed, well, in another period. When the buds appear and the drought begins. Watering should be done under the root so that moisture does not get on the leaves

Do I need watering potatoes?

Processing of potatoes when planting from the Colorado beetle

• Cultivation of the culture from the Colorado beetle begins before the potato planting. When processing special chemicals are used which are sold in trucking stores
• Then the potatoes are processed after the sprouts have grown by 15 cm. To do this, use a special solution: for 10 liters of water, 150 g of copper sulfate. Do this procedure in two stages. The second stage - 12 days after the first
• The famous preparation "Prestige" fights well with Colorado beetles, but has a toxic composition. It can be used only if harvesting is planned for August.
• The safest way is to collect pests and their larvae by hand. This procedure should be done as necessary
• Folk remedy - use of decoction of wormwood, which scares away beetles. They can regularly spray the bushes
• Also, between the bushes, you can decompose mint, sage, matiol, calendula. These plants discourage Colorado beetles

After the potato rises after planting

• If the soil temperature during planting was below 10 degrees, the seedlings will appear on days 20 to 25
• If higher, then after 15 to 20 days
• Sprouted tubers grow much faster( on average, for a week)
• To grow tubers faster, it is better not to dig in to a greater depth. Especially if freezing is not planned
• In order for the shoots to be uniform, you need to choose tubers of the same size and varieties. They should be grown at the same time

Distance when potatoes are planted between rows, wells

• Potato grade determines the best distance between rows
• Early varieties are best planted at a distance of 60 - 70 cm
• Late grades - at least 70 cm, well, better - about 80 - 85 cm
• When calculating the distance between the wells, also consider the grade. Early varieties are best planted at a distance of 20-25 cm, late and medium - more than 30 cm

Distance for planting potatoes

Depth of planting potatoes

• For northern and central latitudes the depth should be 10-12 cm, for southern 14-16 cm
• Also,depth of planting depends on soil type
• Light soils - about 12 cm
• Heavy soils - up to 10 cm
• Peaty soils - up to 7 cm

How to grow a second potato crop?

There are several mandatory conditions that will allow growing two potato crops in temperate and southern latitudes:

• A fairly fertile and fertile soil. To implement this condition, it needs to be fertilized even in the autumn. Next, apply fertilizer for each planting and during growth
• Select a variety of potatoes. In order for it to grow and mature, early varieties
• are needed. Complete thawing of snow and warming of the soil. Not always weather conditions, especially in the central regions, please with early warmth. But there are a few tricks that will help to warm the soil faster
• As soon as the snow comes down and the frost runs out, the soil is poured hot water( up to 65 degrees).And then plant the early varieties
• It is necessary to germinate the potatoes before each planting

Technology of growing young, early potatoes

• Tubers must be germinated. This is done in a bright and quite warm room( up to 15 degrees) a month before planting potatoes in the ground. Potato tubers should be periodically turned over so that they sprout evenly
• To get young potatoes in the shortest time, plant early varieties in prepared furrows. It is necessary to adhere to the distance( 50 -60 cm between the rows, 20 -25 cm between the tubers)
• If suddenly there are frosts, potatoes must be covered with film, hay or tops.
• Sometimes it is necessary to water potatoes, the soil should not be too wet. The ideal interval between watering a week is 10 days.
• When the flowering is over, young potatoes can be scooped out. Dig up the tubers better gradually as they are used by

How to grow young potatoes?

Method of planting and growing potatoes with

• sprouts This technology has been known for a long time. Its essence is the cultivation of potatoes without the use of tubers. For the cultivation of new bushes, we need shoots that are obtained by germination of
• . These shoots settle down like seedlings in the strengthened primer.
• There are two types of shoots - light and shadow. Shadow appear when germinating in a warm, but dark place. Light - with light and moderate temperatures. Light shoots are more tenacious and do not break
• First the tubers need to be planted in peat cups, fertilized and wait until sprouting. Then, separate these shoots and transplant them into separate peat pots with
• primer. When the sprouts take root, they can be transplanted into the soil to a permanent place.
• The method is suitable only for medium-ripening and late potato varieties
• . Plus this method is a considerable saving of seed. Minus is the expenditure of labor and time. Differences in the crop were not detected

How to plant and grow potatoes without digging the land?

• In the classical method of planting a soil digging is an important stage in the cultivation of any crops. It gives the soil oxygenation, raise the fertile layers
• However, as practice shows, not always the yields differ
• This is especially characteristic for planting methods, when planting is carried out at a shallow depth. In this case enough loosening of the rakes
• True, there are disadvantages. The first is the difficulty in harvesting. The second is smaller roots than when digging up the soil

Why does hilling help increase the yield of potatoes?

• When hilling the tubers grow up the stalk. Thanks to this, the yield is better and more, and the bush itself is stronger
• Humming allows to saturate the soil with oxygen and nutrients, which will affect the yield of
• . It protects the plant from frosts, strong winds and other bad weather
• Humming improves the moisture supply to the root system of the plant.
• This procedurereduces the amount of weeds, and hence the labor for weeding
• Processing and harvesting potatoes with burrowed beds is much easier

Video: The method of growing potatoes withouthogging and weeding