I grow potatoes on the site every year. 1.3 acres of land are allocated for this culture. I do not use manure due to its absence, but I cannot complain about the harvest. I'll tell you about my own method of fertilizing the soil for potatoes.
✅ In the fall, after harvesting, I scatter mustard and rye seeds across the potato field. I consider this a universal method of autumn cultivation of the land. Siderata enrich the soil with the necessary nutrition, loosen the soil and do not give any opportunity to wield the bear and wireworm. And the stalks of rye, rotting, are an excellent compost.
✅ In the spring, my husband harrows this site. I just rake and pull out the weeds.
The site is located in an elevated area, so I do not make large ridges, and build them in the direction from north to south at a distance of 60 cm from each other.
✅ I plant medium-sized (!) sprouted tubers, pre-treated with a disinfecting solution, for the preparation of which I add to 1 bucket of water:
- 1 g of potassium permanganate.
- 15 g of boric acid.
- 5 g of copper sulfate.
After carrying out this procedure, I gain confidence that no diseases will become attached to potatoes.
I plant potatoes at a temperature of 8 - 10 degrees above zero. Usually birch buds begin to bloom at this time. Throughout the small field, I make small holes on the ridges and fill them with fertilizer.
✅ I pour a handful of humus into each hole (I extract it from the lower layers of a wooden box with removable walls, where I put in the fall:
- Fallen leaves.
- Tops from root crops.
- And all year round I "pack" in a box for cleaning vegetables, egg shells, banana peels and other leftovers from the table.
- I definitely add some stove ash, onion and garlic husks to the humus.
The contents of the box rot during the winter, and all the necessary elements for the nutrition of the tubers accumulate in the lower layer, - phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium. And here is how I make such quick compost, I already wrote here.
✅ I mix all the components with ordinary earth and put the tubers sprouts up on this "pillow". I spill it with water heated in the sun so that the tubers are immersed in the nutrient mixture. I fill the holes with earth and leave it alone.
This nutrition is enough for the potato uterine tuber to give strong and healthy offspring!
✅ Further care consists in loosening, weeding and feeding with herbal infusions. For this, I have set aside an old barrel, where the cut grass wanders in the water, thereby creating an excellent drug not only for "feeding" potatoes, but also other vegetables. After the rain, pour 0.5 liters of infusion under each bush.
For such a "free" food, the potato thanks the excellent harvest. Original article.
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