Who from truck farmers does not dream to provide his family for the whole winter with the main vegetable of our latitudes - potatoes ? Unfortunately, this is not always the case. What is the reason for the failure, and how to get a decent good harvest of potatoes?
How to grow a big potato crop?
The main requirement for a good harvest is nutrient soil, free from weeds. The earth for the future potato plot needs to be prepared from autumn. The soil is dug and fresh manure is embedded in it.
In the spring, using herbicides or manually removing all the weeds with roots, after which the soil is again dug or loosened, preparing for planting. 3-4 weeks before this, carefully sorted tubers without signs of disease, the size of a chicken egg, are taken from the cellar to a warm sunny place for germination. Germs should not be too long.
There are several methods of planting. An excellent result is given by the trench method, when a trench is digging about 10-15 cm deep and every 30-40 cm is laid with potatoes. In the aisle you can repair the manure.
As soon as the potato rises to a height of 10 cm, it should be treated with a fungicide (from phytophthora), and after a day completely okuchit. Watering is very important before the flowering period, as well as regular hilling. Tubers should be planted in moist soil.
A good harvest of potatoes is biomaterials
Well proven method of growing potatoes under the straw. This is one of the types of biomaterials, when the soil is not dug up, and the tubers are not buried, but are laid on the surface. They are covered with a straw layer of 30 cm and moisturized regularly.
This method yields potatoes up to 20 tons per hectare, which is a lot for a private farm. It is not necessary to fight with weeds and hills the bushes - the potatoes actually grow on their own.
If you do not know how to grow a good harvest of potatoes, then you must search and try all the new ways until you find exactly your "method". Do not lower your hands, you will succeed!