How to grow potatoes from seed and get a great harvest

Put potatoes ‘old school” is not too productive. Well, if planting a bucket of potatoes manage to get two. But the potato - plant is a highly productive, harvest it at least needs to be 5 buckets one (and the record does 10-12 buckets). If you are not satisfied with scanty crops of potatoes, there are several ways to increase the yield.

You Can experiment with unusual (intense) methods of cultivation. There are many opinions and methods on how to grow potatoes to get a decent harvest. If you are thinking how to grow potatoes in a barrel, under black tape, in the straw, in the ridges - it is easy to find detailed instructions and descriptions of these methods.

But still, you should start with planting material. Because of insufficient harvest, often guilty of the disease, the accumulated. Our ordinary potatoes are clonally propagated for decades, the grade ages, its decline, and illness accumulate. So to get a great harvest, it is worth considering how to grow potatoes from seed. The best result can be obtained by growing your own, obtained from seeds, planting material for intensive technologies (here already and to record close). Of course, it is easier to get the elite tubers than to toil with the seeds. But, in fact, plants grown from seed, much better adapted to particular soil conditions. In addition, when you purchase seeds you are certainly not deceived with the grade (which often happens when buying a high-quality tubers).

Consider how to grow potatoes from seeds

Potato Seeds are sown in late April in a box with a light fertile soil after a good watering. Potato seeds are small, so they only need a little to cover with earth or fine sawdust (not softwood). Cover the box with cling film and leave in a warm place. Watered very carefully, preferably by a spray bottle or other sprayer, little and often, in any case not fill.

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The Seedlings are susceptible to "black leg" is a dangerous fungal disease. To combat them, use biological products (e.g., black yeast, planes). Before you grow potatoes from seed, it is advisable to stock up these medicines. In the ground it would be good to add preparation Trichoderma or buy ready ground with him.

Instead of soil to use small chips, gardeners have noted that cuttings seedlings develop a large root system. In this case, the plants should be fertilized with a solution of complex fertilizers with microelements. Great addition to sawdust wood ash and disinfect them  before planting a pink solution of potassium permanganate. Transplanted them reaching a height of 3 cm.

After the appearance of two true leaves, the seedlings are transplanted into individual pots or cups for seedlings. In 40 days old seedlings planted on beds. From box plants are immediately planted in a greenhouse or (if you live in a southern climate) in open ground. Plants still need careful care, it is recommended to install them above the arc and cover lutrasilom, pritenyat from direct sunlight and watered until the seedlings did not take root. At the end of the first year from these plants will seed minitubers is super - super-elite. Of them for the following year will be super-elite, and after another year of elite potatoes. With one plant you can get about 150 minitubers, and the next year with one such nodule will be released from 1 kg and more. The cultivation of potato seedlings a little harder of tomato seedlings.

Before you can grow potatoes from seeds, you need to find suitable varieties. For growing from seed can recommend two early and very high yielding varieties - Assol and the Empress. Another good early varieties: Ilona, Triumph, Farmer. Good middle grade Beauty and the Lada f1 hybrid, early, with tubers of different colors.