Many beginners gardener the very first vegetable for planting choose potatoes, as it is relatively easy to grow, and it is always necessary for cooking. But each person has different tastes: someone who likes pink, and another - white, someone needs friable or, on the contrary, whole. Therefore, based on the purposes of use, the potato variety must be chosen before planting. To make the right choice, you should familiarize yourself with the description of several varieties, as breeders, in order to increase the yield, create novelties every year.
In this article you will get acquainted with the description of one of the new varieties of potatoes - "Ryabinushki": taste qualities and peculiarities of its cultivation.
Description of a bush of potatoes "Ryabinushka"
The terrestrial part of the bush "Ryabinushki" has an erect (sometimes semi-straight) trunk of medium height with dark green open leaves of different sizes (from medium to large) with differing average waviness of the edges. Blooms violet-blue flowers, giving fruit.
The plant is moderately resistant to the causative agents of late blight .
Characteristic of the fruits of potatoes "Ryabinushka"
This variety is considered to be medium-early, as potatoes are collected in 80-90 days after planting. Has a high level of yield: from 220 to 235 c / ha to 390 - 450 c / ha. The tubers themselves have an oval shape, small eyes, a smooth peel of red color and a pulp of cream color, with a high content of starch (11-18%). Each potato can weigh from 90 to 130 grams. Feature of potatoes "Rowan" is:
- excellent taste after cooking;
- high marketable appearance (86-96%);
- good keeping quality (about 90%);
- not darkening with mechanical damage and cutting the flesh;
- average resistance to late blight and golden nematode.
Features of planting and caring for potatoes "Rowan"
The variety "Ryabinushka", developed by ZAO Vsevolozhskaya Selection Station, is intended for planting in the North, North-West, Central and Middle Volga regions of Russia, where warm days for cultivation of late-ripening potato varieties are not enough.
When choosing the planting site for potatoes "Ryabinushka", it is better to choose the sites on which the perennial grasses, winter crops, legumes, flax were located before, and if the soil is sandy after lupine.
Due to the fact that the tubers of this variety are well cured, there are no problems with the sowing material in the spring. The material selected for planting should be prepared: clean and wash, while cleaning the infected and missing tubers. Further it is recommended to germinate , but not longer than 1.5 cm. After that, they are laid in prepared trenches to a depth of 7-10 cm, sprinkled with wood ash and covered with earth. Landing is better to spend in May.
For a bush of potatoes "Ryabinushki" such care is required:
- maintenance of soil in loose state;
- timely destruction of weeds and pests;
- Regular watering and additional fertilizer contribute to increased yields of bushes.
How to store potatoes "Ryabinushka"?
After harvesting, potatoes should be properly prepared for long-term storage:
- Collect my potatoes and put them to dry (10-12 days). In the process we remove the damaged and traces of tuber diseases. By the end of drying potatoes must be covered with greens, since an alkaloid saponin was developed.
- We select the seed material, for this, potatoes the size of a large chicken egg are suitable.
- Then we remove to the storage: a cellar, a vegetable pit or a box.
The guarantee of regularly high yields is the simultaneous planting of different varieties by the time of harvest, then you will receive young potatoes for a long period. It also recommends periodically changing the cultivars used for planting, as in time the loss of their positive characteristics occurs: resistance decreases, yields decrease and the tubers themselves grow smaller. For example, "Rowanberry" can be replaced with such varieties as "Radonezhsky" or "Aurora".