Each gardener dreams to receive good harvest of potatoes from the beds even if you have planted only several bushes, only to be indulged with young potato, without being going to keep it. When landing in big squares it is important to consider not only fertility of the earth, but also still a number of factors. Let's understand one after another.
It is required to you
- - potato tubers;
- - special literature;
- - fertilizers;
- - shovel.
Instruction
1. Think and read the corresponding literature to pick up that grade of potatoes which well grows in your strip.
2. Do not plant potatoes on one site more than 6 years. It considerably will lower harvest, and tubers will be subject to different diseases.
3. Pave the way for landing. The site needs to be opened in the fall, and make on it furrows in the spring. Distance between furrows usually 70 cm. Do poles under tubers at distance of 30 cm from each other. Do ridges under landing from the North to the South.
4. Fertilize the earth under potato tubers. You introduce organic fertilizers. Scatter manure across the field in the fall. Autumn landings of mustard or colza which you razboronit in the spring will be additional fertilizer.
5. Couch potatoes before landing. It is desirable not to cut tubers before bookmark to the soil. If the soil insufficiently warm, then the cut potatoes can ache.
6. Put potato tubers not really deeply. If you have heavy earth on kitchen garden, then depth of landing has to be no more than five centimeters. At the easy friable soil put not more deeply than 8 cm. Air is necessary for seed potatoes, at its shortcoming it is necessary to wait long for sprouts, and the harvest will be worse.
7. Hill potato beds. The first time do it before emergence of shoots, and then still few times during the summer to enrich the earth with air.
8. Water potato sprouts. Only pour water not under each bush, and into furrows. Do watering not less than three times during the summer.
9. Feed up plants nitrogen fertilizers. Do not forget about phosphoric and potash.
10. Potatoes are subject to disease of phytophthora who can only be warned. Process plants special medicines.
11. Weed potatoes. Do not allow it to grass.
12. Reap potatoes crop at the end of August or at the beginning of September, depending on grade and your location.
13. Think of how to keep your good harvest.