Growing early potatoes - technology, features

Potatoes are the most common crop, so growing early potatoes is also not uncommon. Early potatoes are much more valuable and for a reason. After all, early varieties are a real delicacy and a storehouse of vitamins. In order to understand the technology of growing early potatoes, you must adhere to certain rules.

Growing any crop starts with choosing the right variety and early potatoes are no exception. To get early fruits, you need to look at varieties such as Luck, Zhukovsky early, Impala. A month and a half after germination, you can harvest.

Early potato growing technology

In order to get a harvest of early potatoes, it is necessary to prepare the tubers. Growing early potatoes involves pre-germination of the planting material. To do this, you need to take boxes or other convenient containers and put potatoes in them in several rows. For germination, it is necessary to provide a certain temperature in the room where the planting material is located. The temperature should be from +20 to +26 degrees. As soon as the eyes hatch, the tubers need to be moved to a lighted place, with a temperature of +10, for these purposes you can use your own balcony. Periodic planting material must be carefully digested, so as not to damage the hatched sprouts. Immediately before planting, the sprouted tubers must be transferred to the shade.

A week before planting, the tubers should be placed in a mixture of peat and sawdust. To do this, the mixture must be poured into a container, then put the tubers and covered with another layer of peat mixture. There should be no more than five such layers. After you have laid all the layers, it is necessary to shed the seedlings well with a special solution. For 5 liters of water, you will need 5 grams of copper sulfate, mix well until completely dissolved and can be used for watering. This solution has disinfectant properties. After a few days, the potatoes will give roots.

Features of growing early potatoes

How to process potatoes before planting?

After the seedlings have sprouted well, you need to shed the planting material with a solution with complex mineral fertilizer. For example, use phosphorus and potash fertilizers. To accelerate growth, tubers are treated with succinic acid, as well as growth stimulants such as EPIN, SKIL, in accordance with the instructions on the package. Sprouted tubers can be planted when the soil temperature is above +7 degrees, to a depth of no more than 10 cm.

What if there is no way to germinate tubers in advance?

In this case, the planting material needs to be warmed up. To do this, place the tubers in a warm room with a temperature of more than 15 degrees for a week. Such manipulations will accelerate the emergence of seedlings. As fertilizer during planting, we lay half a glass of ash in each hole.

The planting material should be treated with a solution of copper sulfate or boric acid, this is necessary to protect against fungal infections, and also help to speed up the tuberization process.

How to determine when to plant early potatoes?

The timing is different for everyone, depending on the climate and weather conditions in your area. In the south of our country, potatoes are planted starting in March; in the northern latitudes, the planting time is shifted to the end of April.

How to plant early potatoes?

In order for early shoots to appear, the potatoes do not need to be buried, a planting hole no more than 10 cm deep is enough.

After planting, the beds must be covered; for this, you can use an ordinary film or other covering material. After the seedlings germinate well, the film must be removed, if necessary, spud the tubers. Early potatoes can be harvested 45-50 days after germination.