You can plant potatoes in old barrels, in man-made towers, bags on kitchen garden, even in flowerpots on the balcony. Such devices demand the minimum leaving, will help to receive excellent harvests.
How to plant potato in barrels
Such way perfectly will be suitable for those who want to save the place on the site. Here main advantages of vertical placement of potatoes:
- roots of plants well get warm;
- here practically weeds do not grow;
- it is easy to look after such landing, it is not necessary to bend down;
- economy of the place;
- great way of use of old barrels.
If you have metal container, paint it desirable color, by means of cliche put the drawing. Such tanks will become not only vertical bed for potatoes, but also subject of decoration of the site.
Take it:
- barrels;
- easy soil;
- compost;
- complex mineral fertilizer;
- germinated root crops of potatoes;
- nail;
- hammer;
- water.
By means of nail and the hammer make in day of barrel and in the lower part openings for oxygen penetration on each side. If you have plastic capacity, then the nail needs to be heated on torch, to make such holes by means of it.
Fill as drainage of a little beaten brick or filling brick down, fill capacity with the compost mixed with the easy soil, but not up to the top. Spread out root crops at distance of 15 cm, powder them from above with the earth on 10 cm.
In the course of growth of green material you will cover the lower parts of stalks with soil to hill them.
When comes it is time to dig potatoes if barrel without bottom, incline it and pour out harvest through bottom. If the bottom is available, invert it, take potatoes outside.
How to put in oil-cloth bags, pots
Such methods of cultivation of potatoes perfectly will be suitable for those at whom is not present on kitchen garden. Receive root crops directly on the balcony. For this purpose fill fertile soil in oil-cloth bags, buckets, big flowerpots.
Care in the basic consists in waterings and in rare liquid fertilizing. When tubers grow up, you can dig out only large, and small will continue to grow.
For this purpose even before landing make three cuts in the bottom of oil-cloth bag, attach velcro here or sew lightnings. When want some young potato, undo the turned-out pocket, take root crops.
For this purpose, before planting potato in flowerpots, take their two. At smaller cut off sidewalls, insert it in bigger.
It is possible to plant potato in bags and at the dacha, it is only better in black that root crops were not planted trees and shrubs in the sun.
Cultivation of potatoes in tower, mat
For the first method it will be required to you:
- metal gauze;
- straw;
- humus or compost;
- complex mineral fertilizer;
- drainage;
- potatoes;
- wire;
- water.
Twist grid rectangle that it became oval form. Enshrine design in such provision by means of wire. Put drainage in the form of stones in bottom, on it place small layer of straw, also close it sidewalls of "tower". Fill humus or compost here, plant potato, powder with soil on 10 cm.
Cover with straw, make one more tier for landing of potatoes.
The appeared sprouts from base layers will make the way in life in tower sidewalls, and top will reach for light vertically.
You can use the Vietnamese mat instead of straw, having fixed it on internal walls of grid.
These methods of cultivation of potatoes will allow to receive quite good harvests of tasty vegetable at the minimum financial expenses.