Molly potatoes: variety description, cultivation and reviews

One of the most important food crops - potatoes has undergone significant changes since its appearance in the fields. Breeders receive all new varieties that are distinguished by excellent taste, rapid maturation, resistance to diseases, climatic disasters.

Early varieties of potatoes are preferred, since you can feast on fresh crumbly tubers already in the middle of summer. These high-yielding vegetables include Molly's potatoes. It was bred by German breeders and has long been used for cultivation in different climatic zones.

Content:

• Distinctive features of the variety
• Preparing the soil and potato tubers for planting
• Terms and rules for planting a vegetable
• Molly Potato Care Requirements
• Diseases and pests, measures to combat them
• The advantages of the variety, reviews about it

Distinctive features of the variety

It is not for nothing that vegetable growers distinguish the Molly potato variety, since its oval tubers are very tasty. They are covered with a yellow skin with a barely noticeable mesh pattern. Fruits of the same shape are valued due to their slightly yellowish pulp, fine-grained in structure. After cooking, some darkening of the tubers is noted. The weight of one potato reaches from 90 to 150 grams.

The vegetable is also unusual in the structure of the bush: it can be an erect stem or sprawling intermediate type. The stem reaches a height of half a meter and more. Light green leaves of a medium-sized plant, wavy around the edge. Despite the abundant growth of the bush at the beginning of the growing season, there are few whitish flowers on the plant.

Early ripening of Molly potatoes allows harvesting as early as seventy days after planting.

Start to dig potatoes in forty-five days, then the harvest is fifteen kilograms per square meter. When fully ripe, the tubers are harvested twice as much. Harvested potatoes yield well over eighty percent because the plant is resistant to damage. The Molly vegetable variety is successfully grown for their needs by summer residents on small plots, as well as farmers in the fields.

Preparing the soil and potato tubers for planting

You can get high yields of potatoes only on soils suitable for vegetable growth. The best for the plant will be loamy and sandy loam, enriched with nutrients. The soil on potato fields should retain moisture well and allow air to pass through. Before planting, it is necessary to free the site from weeds, insects in the fall, dig it up, adding fertilizers. On one square meter, place a bucket of compost with thirty grams of superphosphate, fifteen grams of potassium salt.

Before planting, nitrogen fertilizers are applied again.

Tubers for planting are selected carefully, without damage, weighing up to seventy grams. Larger root vegetables are best cut lengthwise into two parts two weeks before planting. The selected seed is laid out in bright rooms for the passage of the vernalization period. Layers of 2-3 tubers are kept at an air temperature of 12-15 degrees above zero.

Wet vernalization is also useful.To do this, potatoes are placed in boxes with wet sand, sawdust and kept for 10-15 days, placed in a room with an air temperature of 14 degrees Celsius. The environment in which the seed is placed is moistened with a solution of mineral salts. Prepare it by taking thirty grams of superphosphate in a bucket of water, twenty grams of potassium salt. From such a preparatory technique, the potato yield rises by forty percent.

Effective methods for pre-planting potatoes include processing tubers wood ash, nutrient solutions, growth stimulant. You can germinate potatoes in advance to activate biological processes, increase the resistance of the vegetable, and accelerate its ripening. If you put the tubers on the windowsills in November, then by the spring they will get short green shoots, then planting them in a greenhouse. Once rooted, they are ready to be planted outdoors. Preparing the soil and tubers before planting a vegetable will help to get high-quality high yields.

Terms and rules for planting a vegetable

Potatoes are planted when the soil at a depth of ten centimeters warms up to six to eight degrees Celsius. The optimal time for planting a vegetable is the first decade of May.

Potatoes are planted under a plow or shovel.

After plowing with a plow, the tubers should not be placed on the bottom of the furrow, but slightly higher towards the dump. Seeds are planted to a depth of eight to ten centimeters. A little deeper - on sandy loam soils. In a square-nesting way, two or three tubers are planted per nest according to the scheme of 70x70 centimeters. Recently, it has been recommended to increase the row spacing to ninety centimeters, while maintaining the density of plantings.

In a hole made with a shovel, two hundred grams of humus are added, ten - superphosphate, five - potassium salt. All components are mixed with earth. Depending on the method of processing the planting of potatoes, they either expand or reduce the distance between the rows of the vegetable.

Molly Potato Care Requirements

They take care of a varietal type of potato, taking into account the basic rules for growing a vegetable:

1. The harrowing of the garden is carried out before the emergence of shoots with a loosening depth of four to five centimeters. It is best to carry out the procedure on a sunny day so that the emerging weeds will die.
2. After the appearance of the first shoots, they are harrowed again.
3. Then, when the seedlings reach a height of fifteen centimeters, they loosen the soil in the aisles.
4. During the growing season, potatoes are fed using alternation mineral and organic substances in liquid form. It is enough to dissolve in a bucket of water mullein in a ratio of 1: 5 or bird droppings – 1:12.
5. During the tuberization period, the vegetable needs more moisture. In dry summer, planting a vegetable is watered using two to three buckets of water per square meter.
6. Hilling potatoes plays an important role in increasing the yield of vegetable crops. Thanks to the procedure, additional underground stems are formed, on which the second tier of fruits is tied. Hilling only wet soil, with a dry potato yield will be reduced. The first time is hilling ten centimeters, when the stem reaches twenty centimeters in length. The second time is five centimeters higher during the flowering period.
7. If the growth of the tops increases, and the ovaries are weak, then ash and phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are introduced into the aisles, and the tops of the bushes are pinched.

Properly caring for Molly potatoes will increase the yield of the variety several times.

Diseases and pests, the fight against them

Despite its resistance to some diseases, the Molly vegetable may show symptoms of some of them:

• The phytophthora fungus multiplies with spores, which are white bloom on the underside of the leaves. Brown stripes on the stems, spots on the leaves also help to detect the disease. Root crops are also attacked with sharply defined brown spots. Then they become unusable.For prevention and treatment, potatoes are sprayed with one percent bordeaux liquid.
• Dry spot develops on the fourteenth day after plant infection. To avoid premature drying of the tops, it is necessary to properly care for the vegetable crop.
• If bulging sores are found on potato tubers, then this indicates a lesion with common scab. The introduction of ammonium sulfate solution into the soil during the flowering of the plant effectively helps to fight the disease.
• The roots, covered with black rot, contribute to wilting of the tops, yellowing of the leaves. Tubers are affected by the black leg during harvest, in contact with diseased tops. Therefore, it is so important to remove damaged stems from the garden in time, burn them.
• Ring rot leads to wilting of bushes, rotting of tubers. To prevent the disease from spreading, it is necessary to treat the affected areas with copper sulfate (one hundred grams per ten liters of water).

Potato pests:

• Of the pests for the Molly potato variety, the Colorado potato beetle is terrible. The gluttonous larvae of the parasite can destroy the entire green mass of the plant, deprive the crop. In addition to collecting larvae, beetles are recommended to treat plantings with insecticidal preparations such as Confidor.
• Wireworms - the larvae of the click beetle damage the tubers by making moves in them. As a result, the vegetable culture withers and the roots rot. You can destroy the pest by making traps. Pieces of potatoes, soaked in poison, laid out between the rows. Beetles love to bury themselves in heaps of straw, dry grass, where they are destroyed.

Timely prophylaxis against diseases and pests leads to an increase in the yield of vegetables.

The advantages of the variety, reviews about it

Molly potatoes have many benefits. In addition to the early ripening of tubers, one can note the receipt of high yields of vegetables with proper agricultural technology. This is especially important for those who grow potatoes for sale. Its early tuberization is appreciated in the variety, when the yield is gradually accumulating already in the first half of the growing season. The selection of a varietal vegetable has led to its resistance to many diseases.

It rarely lends itself to infection with cancer, scab, cyst nematodes.

Farmers speak positively about the potato variety. The vegetable grows well in the fields, it is easy to care for it with the help of various agricultural machines. Presentation, excellent taste of tubers allows you to quickly sell products.

The plant is highly appreciated by summer residents. Those who raised Molly actively propagate the vegetable in their gardens, sharing with neighbors and friends. Young potatoes of German breeding are tried in July.

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