FERTILIZERS FOR THE POTATO AND FEEDBACK ON EXPERIMENTS IN ITS GROWING Traditions I have followed for several years in a row. It worked. I have been preparing a garden bed since autumn: width 1 m, length 10 m, height 0 m. A flat slate box is reinforced with a 4 × 20 mm pipe. This height is sufficient for quick warm-up, and width is sufficient to retain heat. I filled it with superphosphate and potash ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Growing potatoes - my feedback on "alternative methods" and experiments with potatoes (Orel)
SO THAT THE VARIETIES OF THE POTATO WILL NOT GENERATE ... The degeneration of the potato is an unpleasant and inevitable phenomenon. However, it is quite possible to try to delay it. I want to speculate about the preservation of my favorite varieties. At the beginning of my gardening activity, I grew the same potato with a name unknown to me for more than 10 years. And I did not feel any discomfort either from this "anonymity" or from the monotony ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Preservation of the yield of the potato variety you like - so that it does not degenerate
TWO HARVEST POTATOES PER YEAR + RULES FOR SUMMER PLANTING OF POTATOES It would be strange if gardeners were limited to one harvest of potatoes per year. In the north, of course, you can't really roam, but in the southern regions it is simply unforgivable to dig potatoes once a season! Anyone who grows potatoes knows that any variety degenerates in two or three years, especially in the south. ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Summer planting of potatoes for the renewal of varieties - so as not to degenerate
POTATO BEDS - WHICH IS BETTER? A lot has already been said about advanced planting and hilling schemes, as well as recipes for the most effective top dressing. But the fact that different varieties of potatoes need differently designed beds has never been discussed. The best safety net Whether you want it or not, you always start looking back at the last one in the new season. ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Which potato variety is best for which garden?
POTATO SALBLYU VARIETY - LANDING AND CARE I caught the eye of a comment in which Evgeny Nikolaevich Lifar asks to share his experience of growing Salblyu potatoes. Here is a topic for conversation! And I remembered the story of many years ago. Once upon a time, I subscribed to a magazine that told about different plants and the rules for growing them. It was then that I learned that, it turns out, ...
Garden and cottage - read more ... Blue potatoes Salblu (photo) cultivation and my reviews