There are various ways to grow potatoes. The main thing is to choose one planting method that will correspond to a specific region of growth and will be comfortable for a gardener. After all, if the successfully chosen method is quite possible to collect 700 kg. with one cottage weave.
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Different ways of planting potatoes
Whichever method is chosen, the main thing is to properly follow all the rules recommended for disembarking by a certain method. It has also long been known that increased yields always depended on well chosen method planting potatoes.
Traditional under the shovel
For this method, the soil for planting potatoes should be prepared in the fall. The plot is dug up by hand on the spade bayonet and nitrogen fertilizer is applied. You can use rotted manure, ash and urea.
Planted at the time of the dissolution of the buds on the birch. This will mean that the earth is warm enough to not destroy the culture. You can plant the beds immediately at the eye of the digging holes, and you can use the twine and pegs to make the markings and then the rows will be even.
Rows digging at a distance of 70 cm from each other. Tubers for planting choose not large size 4 cm.in diameter and must be healthy. Before planting, planting material should be germinated within two weeks.
It is convenient to plant, applying the method to two people - one digs pits with a depth of no more than 10 cm, and the other lays out the potatoes in the wells with sprouts up. Put compost on top and not a lot of ash.
Soil when digging the next hole is thrown on the hole dug before it. The step between tubers is 30 cm.
After that, how do young shoots seem and before flowering, hilling is necessary twice to increase the yield. Do not forget about watering and fertilizer with manure and mineral fertilizers.
How to plant in the ridge
The method is also called Dutch technology.
Further care is the only traditional soil for hilling taken between the rows and therefore the root system of the bush is not injured.
Two weeks before digging potatoes need to mow the tops.
In the furrows
A furrow of 20 cm wide and 15 cm deep is dug out. Tubers are laid out in it with a step of 30 cm and slightly sprinkled with earth.As the tops grow, the ground sprinkles until a mound grows above the ground.
When filling the ground above, use also humus and ash.
Under the count
Holes do with a special stake. For such a plant it is good to have two people - one goes and makes marking with the help of a stake, and the second follows him to plant potatoes, at the same time covering it with earth.
Prepare the soil in advance in autumn digging and making nitrogen fertilizers.
Mietlaider Method
The reception of an American scientist increases the harvest twice. So, they dug the beds up to half a meter wide and with a step between the beds of 100 cm. The beds are dug up without touching the soil between the rows.
Beds marked up on a permanent basis and they are not transferred to a new place next year. So that the water during the irrigation does not spread in different directions, make the sides of the ground or boards. There is one peculiarity, in such a bed the tubers are put in two rows, but in a checkerboard pattern, marking the step between the holes of 25 cm.
The beds for the method do for a long period.
Unusual Chinese way
With this method, a hole under the potatoes dug in the autumn time the size of meter per meter. At the bottom of the pit organize a compost pileby adding a little wood ash. In the spring, a large potato tuber is put into such a pit; its weight is at least 200 grams.
Previously, a cross-cut is made on it, which will stimulate a large number of shoots. After the tuber is germinated for 2 weeks. After planting potatoes in the center of the pit, it is covered with 25 cm. Layer of fertile soil.
After the appearance of the first shoots, they are treated with potash fertilizers and covered with earth. Such layers can be up to 3 pieces.
With this method is used a lot of fertilizer and this does not increase the quality, but only the number of tubers harvested from one bush.
Square-breeding option
Or it is also called the Gulich method. For this method, the entire plot of land intended for planting potatoes is divided into squares with a side in a meter. A circle of humus with a diameter of 25 cm is laid out in the center of each square, and potatoes are sprouted down in the center of this circle.
In dry times such plantings need watering.
In a barrel
At the bottom of the barrel or bag put a mixture of earth and compost. Then put the potatoes and sprinkle lightly with the same mixture. As soon as their sprouts appear, again they are sprinkled with a mixture of earth and compost and so on up to 70 cm in height.
This method is ideal if there is little land on the plot or most of it is covered with asphalt. Then these barrels can be placed around the perimeter of the yard.
It is necessary that the walls of the barrel were air inlets to the root system of potatoes.
Type of crests
This method of planting is used when the groundwater is located very close to the ground surface on the ground chosen for potatoes. The most convenient way to do combs using the motoblock. Combs are made at a distance of 70 cm from each other and at least 15 cm high.
Further traditional care:
- Watering;
- Loosening;
- Hilling;
- Fertilizer.
This method has a number of advantages - reduction of manual labor, with constantly raw soil potatoes dry faster, and therefore there are no rotten potatoes.
This method is only suitable for wet soil with stagnant moisture.
Sit in the trench
In the middle of autumn they dig up trenches with a depth of 30 cm and with a step of 70 cm. Along the entire length of the trench lay a layer of hay up to 15 cm high and lightly sprinkle it with a mixture of manure and ash.
By spring, this layer is compacted to 5 cm. And potatoes are laid out on it with a step of 30 cm. If planting is early, then such plantings are covered with agrofiber or other insulant present in the farm. Further care of plantings consists of normal actions.
The method is great for sandy soils.
Under the black film
The place allotted for planting potatoes is well fertilized and covered with black film. Instead of digging holes in 30 cm steps, holes are made in the film, and potatoes are already planted in them.
This method has its advantages:
- No need to weed;
- Do not spud;
- Watering is reduced, because under the film the soil dries out more slowly.
Smooth landing
This is the same way as with a shovel, but to keep the rows of potatoes even, they make markings on the field with the help of twine and pegs. The potatoes unfold and the earth is poured on top.
In the box
This method boils down to the fact that it is necessary to build a box in height up to 25 cm. The width will be 100 cm. Do the length of the box arbitrarilyHey, on what capable bed, allotted for planting potatoes.
The passage between such beds is about 70 cm. At first, these boxes are filled with earth from a compost pile mixed with rotted manure, and already on this mixture the tubers are laid out in a double row in a staggered manner in 30 cm steps.
Hilling with this method of landing is not necessary. After harvesting, the boxes are sown with any sideratami.
Breakdown of these methods into traditional and new
| View | Method name |
| Traditional |
Method "under the shovel"; Smooth fit; Ridge; In the trench. |
| New |
In a barrel; Under the black film; Chinese method. |
| Unusual |
Landing on Metlider; Square-nested way. |
| Suitable for giving | Any method that is convenient gardener, as everyone has different conditions. |
General moments
Whichever method is chosen, you need to be sure that what will the tubers get:
- Heat;
- Air access to the root system;
- Watering once a week during flowering;
- Fertilizers.
How is sowing potatoes
Sowing potatoes with seeds is not used, as this is a troublesome thing. But if there is a desire, then after flowering seeds appear, resembling small black tomatoes.
They are collected and stored until spring, and in the spring planted on a prepared small garden bed. Under good conditions, by the end of the season, planting material of potatoes grows from seeds.
How does the landing of potatoes
For this purpose, the planting material is no more than a matchbox and is pulled out of the basement 21 days before disembarking in open ground. This time it is necessary that the potatoes set aside for planting should sprout.
Then apply any method that is described in this article.
What varieties are suitable for planting potatoes
Each gardener chooses a variety that suits him best.
Important factors that need to be guided when choosing a variety:
- Productivity;
- Sleepiness in winter;
- Taste qualities.
It is selected empirically, relying on their taste and personal storage conditions of potatoes until spring.
Tips on how to quickly plant potatoes
You can plant potatoes quickly, if two or three people work in the garden and in the usual traditional way under the spade. But having previously dug up the whole earth with a walking tractor, which will greatly facilitate the planting of potatoes.
How to make beds
There are many different ways in which you can plant potatoes on your site. Everyone wants to choose the easiest and most effective option. The main thing is to pick one convenient and not laboriousthat will suit a particular gardener. Some people use two methods of planting potatoes in their plot to increase the yield.