Remember how Tosya Kislitsyna, played by Hope Rumyantsev, lists how many dishes can be prepared from potatoes? Great variety. And the varieties of this tasty and beloved tubers no less! What if potatoes also grown personally, it is at times tastier and more useful shopping!
If you intend to as I get two crops, you should start with the selection of planting material. Not every grade suitable for use of such a method. About the most productive varieties and their benefits, I will talk about later, but for now that,
How to get two crops of potato bush
To collect double the harvest from a bush suitable only early-maturing varieties, including the above.
Tubers necessarily sprout, sprouts should be Kripen'ka, but not overgrown, no more than 15-20 cm.
It would be nice to treat propagation material growth stimulants. The soil for planting should be light, fertile, well-hydrated. In the spring the soil need to make superphosphate and potassium fertilizer.
Very good potato responds to the application of wood ash. Place potatoes better after legumes, on a well-lit area.
5-7 days before the intended landing is necessary to form a ridge height of 30-35cm. Row spacing of 60 cm (for Scarlet Red 70cm). The distance between plants in a series of 30cm. High school course, we remember that in the chlorophyll grains of carbon dioxide and water formed starch.
Therefore, when the cultivation of potatoes in a timely manner, do not forget to water the flower bed. Be sure to spend 2-3 hilling.
On the 45th day after emergence neatly shovel from bush land and choose the largest tubers, without breaking with stolons smaller nodules. Return the soil into a ridge, water, and after 1-2 days extra spud. After another 10 days podkopki repeat the procedure. After three or four weeks completely remove the crop.
What grades can easily double to give the potato crop
✔ Red Scarlett
For about two decades, it enjoyed continued popularity among gardeners. It can be grown in almost all regions of Russia. Early maturing, new potatoes can undermine a half months.
Under a bush form to 20 beautiful oblong-oval bright pink aligned in size tubers. Shallow eyes, yellowish. The flesh is light yellow, when cooking does not change color and does not fall apart. The starch content of 10-15%. The taste is very good. The average weight of tuber 80-150, the Well kept, virulent cancer and nematodes.
✔ Colette
Very early variety, allowing tubers to get the first 45 days. Mature tubers harvested 70 days.
Tubers are smooth, oblong-oval, light yellow, eyes are almost invisible. Pulp is pale yellow, due to the low content of the starch during the heat treatment retains its shape. With the bush to receive 14-16 potatoes. Very picky about soil: high yields can be obtained only on light, fertile soils, on high agricultural background.
The method is based on the fact that, when removed from the bush large tubers, power plant sent to the nutrition and growth of the remaining tubers. If such separate general cleaning the yield from the bush is obtained by 25-30% higher. You good harvests! By the way! I almost forgot to ask you to look at the photo below ...