Potato seeds or tubers?

We are so used to planting potatoes with tubers or parts of tubers that we don’t even think about the existence of potato seeds. Why bother with seeds when you can use tubers? Well, firstly, long-term use of tubers, especially in warm regions, leads to the degeneration of root crops, which is expressed in the formation of thin filamentous shoots during their germination. Secondly, a lot of viral diseases accumulate, which are transmitted to subsequent generations. And thirdly, bushes grown from seeds give large yields. Therefore, from time to time, not every, of course, year, but it is recommended to grow potatoes from seeds.

How to plant potato seeds? Only by seedling, sowing them in boxes with fertile soil around the end of March, then by mid-May the bushes will get stronger so that they can be planted in open ground. First, the seeds are soaked in water, and when they hatch, they are laid out on the surface of the earth in rows, at a distance of 10 cm from each other. The distance between the seeds in a row should be at least 5 cm. From above, the potato seeds are covered with a thin layer of sand so that they are not washed away with water during watering (they are very small). Place the boxes in a warm, bright place and make sure that the sand does not dry out until shoots appear. This will happen on about 5-6 days. Then watering should be moderate.

To stimulate an increase in green mass, seedlings can be fed with urea (1 g per liter of water). By mid-May, the bushes will reach a height of 15-20 cm. But to get a good harvest when planted in the ground, they should be buried so that only 2-3 leaves remain on the surface. At first, the bushes will need watering.