Growing potatoes in Siberia - tips garden gardener
Northern potatoes - how and how much?
No, it’s not for nothing that this culture is called the second bread. What would we all do without her? I generally believe that a person who did not plant potatoes with his own hands, did not fight for the harvest, did not count every dug up tuber, did not see real life. Well, he is not entitled to be called a gardener. Potato is like a matriculation certificate. The one who received it, the king and god in his garden, you can’t confuse him with anything. My closest relatives (and there are five of them) usually begin to terrorize me in July with requests to treat them to young potatoes, despite the fact that last year's harvest still lies in the cellar. Well, how can you refuse?
Desire is usually satisfied, although so reluctant to dig up shrubs mid-ripened, regionalized in Siberia varieties Tuleyevsky, Kolpashevsky, Nakra and Lina.
See also: Cultivation of potatoes in the North
You can, of course, solve this problem by growing early ripening people, such as Krasnoyarsk, Zhukovsky, Luck, Timo, but they yield a low yield, and their seed tubers are worse kept. One more thing: I can single out a potato with only a half or two hundred. And before the new harvest, two families must be fed. How to be? Some readers, not knowing the weather conditions in Eastern Siberia, can say: "And we dig up bushes in June." They do not imagine that the shoots of potatoes are only appearing at this time, because in May, snow sometimes falls here, and the ground does not have time to completely thaw.
Here, even the cunning vernalization of tubers can not contribute to the emergence of early shoots of potatoes.
So I learned how to grow mid-ripening and mid-ripening varieties as early ones.
In the garden there was a pillow ... At first I made a small elevated “dark” bed about 60 cm high and 210 cm wide.
Length -8 m. Earlier on this place berry bushes grew. The branches and the whole crown were cut off under the base, the roots left in the ground and covered them with thick cardboard, mown grass and half-baked compost. A layer of thickness 18-20 cm was obtained. Then, on top of it, another centimeter of 30 fertile soil, taken from the bed, where my pumpkin lived, was poured.
As a result, I got a pillow that prevents the penetration of cold from below to the roots of the potato.
Yes, I forgot to say that I put the beds for potatoes on the sunny plot of the garden so that a small layer of soil would warm up as quickly as possible. I spend additional activities: from the watering can I spill the earth with hot water and immediately cover it with two layers of black polyethylene film. I tried at first to use the usual white film from economics (there was a stock in the farm), but soon I was sure that it was good at letting out the sun's rays, but it's just as easy through it and all the heat goes away, especially at night.
Reference by topic: How to grow 2 potato crop
Bed for potatoes in the room
Now I will talk about the reception, which helps rooting seeded tubers planted on a permanent place. It was built from thin boards with a length of 5 m, width 1 m and a height of 6 cm. Throughout the perimeter of the box, for the strength of the structure, nailed vertically the bars.
In the middle of May I install this wooden frame right in the middle of one of the rooms in the garden house, placing it on the stools (at the bottom I lay the sheets of orgalith) so that when waving over it I do not bend into three deaths. In the room I shade the windows and with the help of a stove I maintain a constant temperature of 14-16 ° in it. In the box I pour out the garden soil (taken from the beds where garlic and onions grew) with a continuous layer of thickness 1-1.5 cm.
Immediately I spread out the germinated seedlings of potatoes of different fractions, weighing from 30 to 60 g.
It is important to lay them apart from each other at a distance of 2-3 cm, then when the tubers are removed from the tub with the beard roots, the sprouts do not break.
Quite often it happens that 3-5% seed tubers from the base of sprouts do not appear suction root hairs. I believe that this happens in infected individuals infected with the virus. Such tubers without hesitation I burn in the furnace of a garden small house.
Evenly decomposed seed material fall asleep with the same wet garden land layer 3-5, see I do not water the bed, even when the top layer of the earth dries. After 18-20 days, the first white stems of potatoes appear.
They signal that roots have appeared on the planting tubers, which absorb nutrients from the soil. Now, carefully, one plant at a time, I take them out of the ground, put them in a basin with two handles and immediately transplant them into the holes of a “warm” high bed. Agricultural planting is usual. The deadline is May 20-25 (you can probably do this until the last numbers).
Simultaneously, between the holes, I sow the seeds of mustard, which grows faster than the potatoes. In the budding stage, I tear it out and lay it between rows of potatoes. Shoots of our second bread I cover with covering material. In the middle of June I take it off. Flower buds of potatoes are cut off.
Author: В.Д. Brodnikov, city of Krasnoyarsk
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Potato. I plant 3 buckets, ridges of 2 nests, a path - 80 cm. I plant early to capture moisture. She laid onion husks, eggshells, ash (I am hoarding all winter).
The tubers laid sprouted, processed by means of complex protection of potatoes from pests and diseases.
My potato was eaten by a wireworm before, then I read somewhere that I should put a mustard powder mixed with red hot pepper (one packet of both). So I did, put a pinch under each potato. I sagged shallowly and fell asleep very low-here is my mistake! We had a dry spring in the Urals, and water was given in June. For a very long time the potatoes did not come up. I loosened it and ground it. I lived through it, I thought, I will not have a harvest. Then she went to grow quickly, maybe the land was still cold.
Torn all the color. The potato was born to glory. With three eight-liter buckets dug 35! Maybe it's not enough, but I'm happy. Kartoshechka all clean, without trifles, is not struck by a wireworm.
All summer there was no beetle in sight. Continuous pleasure!
I also want to say about carrots. Planted it in the crest along the ridge from north to south. She made two combs, and in a furrow between them a bow planted a bow on food. FROM
the river brought sand and brought it into the crest with a scoop, the Queen of Autumn spilled and sowed carrots, covered it with black soil, slightly tamped it and covered it with a film. When the carrots began to emerge, the film was removed. Well, then - the same departure. Thinning, watering in a furrow, weeding. Onion over time ate in salads. The carrots were a success. It was not clumsy, all smooth, large.
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World records on one hundred square meters
I’ve been many years, I’ve been working on earth all my life. My site is huge, until recently, I was dealing with God's help, but now it’s a little taut - the forces are not the same. Therefore, I decided to switch to flowers, and for vegetables - what remains.
But what is interesting: I lower the ground for them, and harvest the same as before, if not more. Of course, with the help of little tricks.
For example, last year I decided to conduct an experiment with potatoes. Dropped him in two places. As usual, in both areas he looked after, weeded, loosened, but on one before flowering he cut off the tops (2-3 cm) on each bush, immediately watered abundantly. And what do you think, after such a haircut - how did the potato go to growth! Especially distinguished side shoots. Moreover, the bushes remained green much longer than in another area, where I did not cut off the tops.
And what happened? It turned out, with the help of this procedure, the period of vegetation increased. It did not affect the maturation period, but the quality and quantity of tubers increased significantly. Broken potatoes give two or three more tubers than with whole tops. Moreover, planting tubers from this potato give healthy and powerful for yielding bushes.
It happened to me out of necessity, but I look at some summer residents - and it takes longing. They want to plant it, and behold, and the land conditions are constrained. So my way they might have to come in handy.