Increasing the yield of potatoes: planting method, feeding and growth stimulants

Potato Is one of the most demanded crops. Not one feast or just a hearty snack can not do without it. A huge number of dishes can be prepared from potatoes ... Growing your favorite potatoes is not so troublesome, but sometimes the harvest leaves much to be desired. How can you increase it? In this article, we will look at the main factors that directly affect the yield. potatoes.

Content:

• Good potato seeds
• Top dressing of potatoes
• Excellent predecessors
• Potato planting method
• The fewer flowers, the more fruits!
• Use of growth stimulants

Good potato seeds

As many of us know, the potato harvest directly depends on caring for it. Whatever you use the seeds and fertile soils, if there was no proper care for a given crop, then you won't have to think about any big harvest. Care must be produced according to agricultural technology cultivation potatoesI'm in these climatic conditions.

In addition to proper maintenance, good seed material should be used when planting potatoes.

The future harvest directly depends on its quality. With the annual selection of seed potato tubers among the obtained crop of this year, you yourself, without knowing it, select tubersthat have accumulated a lot of viruses over the summer. The viruses caught lead to the development on the tubers of various diseases, due to which its harvest... Even providing proper care will not help you achieve good results.

Therefore, before you start planting potatoes, you should get good seed material:

• Buying tubers of good potato planting material is a very costly business, especially in the spring pre-planting period.
• It is much more profitable to grow a new variety from seed.
• There is a wide selection of seeds in specialized stores potatoes, zoned for different climatic conditions.
• In addition, a brief description of the variety and its taste are indicated on the seed bags. Thus, you yourself can choose the seeds in the store that would meet your needs.
• Once you have purchased the desired potato seed variety, all you have to do is learn how to grow potato tubers from its seeds.

If you do not have the opportunity to purchase potato seeds, then you can simply exchange your seed potatoes with the seed potatoes of a friend, friend or neighbor. In this case, you can also achieve a high potato yield by changing seeds. Before planting the seed potatoes obtained in this way, you should carefully examine them for stains or rot. If such lesions are found on tubers, then shoots can not be expected from such seed material.

For planting, it is advisable to use large tubers, since they contain much more organic matter necessary for the formation of seedlings.Small tubers contain less organic compounds, and it is simply not realistic to get a large potato yield from them.

Top dressing of potatoes

You can provide yourself with a high yield of potatoes if you use a small feeding... It is the "food" of fertilizers that is so necessary and necessary for the growth of potatoes. Fertilization is especially necessary on soils with a meager content of the fertile layer.

A certain amount of fertilizer is recommended to be applied to the prepared soil hole along with the tuber dropped into it.

Thus, you will provide the entire plant with the necessary trace elements for its growth. What kind of fertilizers, then a large number of them in a large assortment are produced for such purposes.

The most popular fertilizers are:

1. Fertilizers of Kemira are Finnish fertilizers with a complex effect. Chlorine is not included in their composition, but the content of a large number of trace elements is included. Thanks to the action of these fertilizers, there is an enhanced growth of tubers. potatoes and enriching it with the necessary compounds. With the help of Kemir fertilizers, not only a bountiful harvest of potatoes is obtained, but also its saturation with starch. Tubers grown in the area where this fertilizer was used contained a higher concentration of starch, in contrast to tubers grown without it. The use of this fertilizer will help you to get a high yield of potatoes without minimal costs on your part.
2. The use of such fertilizer as Peaks supercompost when growing potatoes will allow you to get a bountiful harvest without undue effort. The composition of this fertilizer includes a huge number of microorganisms useful for the growth, the activity of which stimulates the process of assimilation of nutrients necessary for growth by potatoes. This fertilizer should be correctly applied under a plant such as potatoes. Supercompost Peaks, like the previous fertilizer, is placed in a small amount in the wells before planting. This fertilizer can increase the potato yield several times.
3. Urgasa is one of those fertilizers that is not only effective but also easy to prepare. To do this, all food waste in the house is treated with a special bactericidal solution, which can be purchased in specialized stores. The fertilizer prepared in this way is folded into plastic bags with thick walls and sprinkled with a thin layer of old sawdust... Thanks to this, the moisture level in the bags will significantly decrease and there will be no decomposition of the compounds necessary for the growth of potatoes.

In the spring, a small amount of fertilizer is placed in the prepared potato planting hole, slightly mixing it with the soil. Due to the mixing of fertilizer and soil, the concentration of compounds around the tuber is reduced and the possibility of the plant getting burned is excluded. With the help of this fertilizer, the process of photosynthesis is enhanced, the green mass of the plant and its tubers increases.

Excellent predecessors

As you know, the yield of many crops directly depends on their predecessors. It is the use of good predecessors that will allow you to get a large crop yield.

The best precursors for potatoes are:

• Pumpkin
• Cucumber
• Cabbage
• Legumes
• Root crops

Planting potatoes in this area after these plants, the yield will always be higher, and the number of plants affected by rot will be minimal.

Potatoes should not be planted after crops such as:

• Tomatoes
• Sorghum
• Sunflower
• Nightshade
• Pepper

These plants remove from the soil all trace elements and compounds useful and necessary for the growth of potatoes. The alternation of potato planting sites carried out at the same time will also have a beneficial effect on the future harvest. At the same time, the fertile soil layer will be restored in the area where it grew potatoes... The alternation of places for planting potatoes is widely used not only in our country, but also in foreign countries. This event helps to cleanse the soil layer from the pathogens of a bacterial, viral or fungal nature present in it.

Potato planting method

For a high yield potatoes, consisting mainly of large tubers, it is important to observe certain distances during landing.

This applies primarily to the width of the potato row spacings. The larger it is, the larger the potatoes will be.

In many countries, this pattern has long been noticed and is widely used. So, Dutch gardeners leave a row spacing equal to seventy-five centimeters. In their opinion, it is this distance that is optimal for the growth of potatoes. Due to various circumstances, this given regularity is neglected and a small distance between the rows is made. This leads to a deficiency of trace elements necessary for the growth of potatoes and, as a consequence, a decrease in the future yield. At the same time, narrow aisles are quite difficult to weed and dig in, as you can damage neighboring plants. Therefore, it is worth considering and observing the recommended landing distances.

Soil fertility also directly affects the yield. The higher the content of humus in the soil layer, the more likely it is to obtain a high yield of potatoes. For these purposes, virgin or soddy chernozem soils are well suited. Well-fertilized land with organic manure is also good for potato growth.

Before planting potatoes, it is imperative to pre-plant the soil.

It is advisable to plow in the fall and cultivation in the spring. These measures will saturate the soil with moisture from melting snow and provide them with full oxygen access.

The fewer flowers, the more fruits!

As you know, potatoes belong to angiosperms, which are characterized by obligatory flowering. Potato flowers are quite noticeable and are collected in small inflorescences. Thanks to them, the area where the potatoes are planted becomes like a flowering carpet. But in this case, there is also a reverse side of the coin.

Organic compounds formed in the plant due to the activity of photosynthesis go to the formation of these flowers and inflorescences, and could be spent on the growth and enlargement of tubers.

This has been proven by numerous studies and experiments. On average, for the formation of one potato flower, the same amount of organic compounds and trace elements is spent as they go to the formation of one tuber. So much for arithmetic!

On a profusely flowering potato plot, potatoes are significantly poor in starch and are not significant in size. Therefore, you should not give potato plants active flowering, as this affects the amount of the crop obtained.

Use of growth stimulants

A big role in obtaining a high yield potatoes biostimulants of its growth play. The activity of these compounds is aimed at stimulating growth processes in a plant organism. Biostimulants are natural or synthetic compounds. To obtain the expected result, a small amount of biostimulants is usually used, which have a significant effect on the growth processes in a plant organism.

Penetrating into the plant organism, a growth stimulant helps to increase the intensity of metabolic processes and increase vital processes.

Consider the popular stimulants you can use on potatoes:

• Epin. This growth stimulator has an excellent effect on the growth of potatoes, providing the intensity of photosynthesis processes.With the help of phytohormones of this group, stress proteins are actively synthesized in potatoes, the activity of which is aimed at protecting the plant from various kinds of harmful effects. This leads to an increase in the intensity of growth processes and an increase in the green mass of potatoes. As a result of this, organic compounds begin to form in large quantities, which accumulate in the tubers, increasing them in size and mass.
• Another well-known growth promoter for potatoes is Gibbersib. In addition to potatoes, it is actively used in many other vegetable crops. Due to the influence of this stimulant on plants, not only an increase in the activity of growth processes occurs, but also an acceleration of the ripening process of tubers. Gibbersib affects the increase of plant resistance to various pathogenic microorganisms and diseases... The use of this stimulant will allow not only to get a bountiful harvest of potatoes, but also to protect it from pathogenic microorganisms. Before planting cooked potato tubers in the soil, it is recommended to produce them processing Gibbersib solution. Due to the high sensitivity of potatoes to this stimulant, a weak solution of this drug should be prepared.

The measures considered in the text make it possible to increase the yield to the greatest extent. potatoes... It is only necessary to use them according to the conditions for potatoes. Incorrect use of the above measures will not give you the expected bountiful harvest. In addition to the above methods of increasing the yield of a crop such as potatoes, it is necessary to take proper care of it, and then you will be provided with a high yield.

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