Potatoes – very popular vegetable on kitchen gardens and personal plots. Often it occupies the most part of all earth intended under landing. In our country many inhabitants willingly use it for preparation of various dishes.
When to hill potatoes
Usually earthing up is carried out at the end of May - the beginning of June depending on shoots. At this moment the tops of vegetable has to be about 20-25 cm above the ground. Then repeated earthing up is carried out already approximately in the middle of July.
Why to hill potatoes
After landing and shoots of potatoes on kitchen garden its underground part – tubers which are necessary to people gradually begins to develop. But they deeply are underground, and the lack of moisture negatively affects their development. At earthing up of potato the top soil is removed and tubers become closer to nutrients. Also earthing up helps from abundance of weed. The grass gets off mattock or okuchnik and then worse sprouts.
As it is correct to hill potatoes
For a start decide on the tool for earthing up of potatoes. It can be ordinary mattock, opashnik, okuchnik or the motor-block. Certainly, the checked option – mattock.
To begin earthing up of potato, rise in the beginning of furrow since one end of arable land. Legs place at shoulder length and are located so that the furrow of potatoes passed between them. Then mattock row up the earth on potatoes at first on the one hand, moving back, and then already with another. It is better to pass two furrows at once: at first two with one, then two with another. Thereby you will not trample down legs earth crests. Mattock have a little obliquely, getting the earth one corner. To work with all lower plane very hard and forces, especially on clay soils can quickly come to an end.
How many times to hill potatoes
If the kitchen garden is located on sandy soils, then there is fast destruction of furrow. In this case it is necessary to carry out several repeated okuchivaniye, no more than two times, in process of growth of potatoes.
On other soils will be to correct furrows in month once enough and more not to hill any more.