Seedling method of planting potatoes - my reviews
Planting potatoes with seedlings
Today I will only talk about the seedling method of planting potatoes, which I have been using for the fourth year already.
For example, L. Belousov in his article suggests us to reflect on the consequences of the anomalous 2010 year, "about that monstrous drought that caused many people to restore the production of our second bread from scratch" ("Will the potatoes, if heat hits again?"). I think this is a correct and timely question.
Vladimir Leonidovich, sincerely caring about people, proposes, based on his many years of experience, several solutions. His letter made me think about how to reduce the vegetable (namely vegetable!) Vegetation period of potatoes. Partially we are this the period is shortened, germinating on seed tubers large sprouts. But I wanted the tubers to have real roots before they landed in the garden.
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With me in my childhood was the case: my dad and I were planted near the poplar house. Our house stood at the end of the village, and my father decided to plant a whole poplar grove. At first he planned oak, but the trees from acorns grow very slowly, so they decided to plant poplars. They planted freshly cut stick-cuttings. But they did not grow up! And the pope claimed that they should, since he had long noticed that such sticks-debris near the collective-farm stables did not grow by themselves, no one planted them there. Then we began to put our cuttings in children's tin pails with warm water: they turned out seedlings with kidneys and small white roots. And everything went our way.
And now, with the help of these memories, I managed to find a seedling method for planting potatoes, thereby reducing the period of its growth in the garden. The most important thing here is good roots. After all, it is known that plants in the first half of the growing season receive the necessary nutrients exclusively with the help of roots, and only then foliage is included in the nutrition process, as our experienced gardener L.V. Porkhunov (“To put an end to early”, No. 21,2016)
So that good roots form on the seedlings, I grow it in a warm room.
Tubers green in the light, i.e. I cook in the fall before putting it into the cellar. And I prepare seedlings in the winter, until I started worries with seedlings of other vegetables. In February (according to the Lunar calendar) I transfer all the seed potatoes, which are intended for seedlings, from the cellar to the house. In plastic boxes I spread the washed dry potatoes in small plastic bags (20 × 15 cm), adding 3 tbsp. l humus. I grow six early and early ripening varieties: Otrada, Impala, Rosara, Zhukovsky, Red Scarlett, Karatop. Sometimes I put seedlings on Nevsky.
These plastic boxes with tubers in small bags I carry to the veranda, where in winter the temperature is below zero. It is regulated by me: from the veranda there is a door to the dressing room. On the verandah I grow seedlings to the Annunciation (7 April). Soon after this (also according to the Lunar calendar) I planted already in the garden on narrow beds under the straw, cooked in the autumn and from March covered with black film.
I remove the film before landing. First, along the entire length of the bed (south-north), I spread the straw every 35 cm with a small rake, make a shallow hole, pushing the earth to a depth of 7 cm, then I bring a watering can from the bathhouse with hot water and pour into each hole. Two watering cans leave on one bed. On a bed one row of holes.
I plant seedlings in wet, warm holes - one tuber with a green stem and a large lump of earth on the roots. And immediately mulch the straw to the very tops of the stems.
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I must say that I do all the work in the garden using the main rule of a smart summer resident: do not dig, do not water, do not weave! I water only once - during planting. I don’t put anything into the holes; I don’t feed and dig all summer. I use night watering only in case of terrible heat (as in 2010).
It’s a pity that she didn’t even know that digging the earth is wrecking, that it can only be loosened and only up to 7 cm - no deeper! But now I am very happy with my crops.
© Author: Zoya Boldyreva Samara
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