How many times need to be watered potatoes during the vegetative period – question ambiguous. With other vegetables and root crops clear. And here potatoes – he on: also you will water – will grow, and you will not water – will be.
Actually potatoes need to be watered. It will grow, of course, but without abundant summer waterings of good harvest you will not wait. And, before beginning to look after potatoes, it is necessary to plant it correctly.
Preparation of the soil and landing
The earth for landing of potatoes needs to be prepared. It is the best of all to make it, having landed previously on the site of siderata. They are sowed in October, after harvesting of the previous cultures, or in March, before landing of various garden and garden plants. When siderata grow up, plow them to the earth, and then, in May, sow potatoes. And the first watering of potatoes is necessary for it even before crops. It is necessary to plant potatoes to the damp earth. If the winter was snow, in the earth there is by the time of landing of potatoes sufficient reserve of moisture. And if snow was not enough, it is the best of all to plant potatoes after rain. So classical thunderstorms at the beginning of May are not just poetry, but also the help of the nature in cultivation of good harvest of potatoes.
Leaving and watering
After potatoes are correctly planted, it is possible to begin behind it leaving, one of the most important elements of which is watering. The soil around potatoes has to be supported in friable and not excessively damp state. But it should not dry up too. To potatoes roots more than to other vegetables, air is necessary. In the soil flooded with water the tubers will choke and on many parties are not formed at all. Where there is risk of overwetting, it is necessary to lay drainage. And in the dried-up soil the thin young backs will die. It is possible to hope for atmospheric precipitation again. And it is possible, having taken care of harvest in hand, to water potatoes. Especially during its blossoming. During blossoming the plant needs a lot of moisture. At least potatoes need to be watered during the season three times – after shoots, after formation of flower buds and after blossoming. But watering is better to carry out two-three more times during blossoming in addition.
This plant quite drought-resistant. But if potatoes begin to lack moisture, it will signal about it faded leaves and the hung stalk. In this case the potato plantation needs to arrange deep watering that the soil has got wet at size of fertile layer, that is on 20-25 centimeters. Also it is worth watering potatoes and after application of fertilizers. Then potatoes will be born large, and from each bush it will be possible to collect many root crops.