How to plant potatoes to collect a generous harvest

Whenever you see the prices for potatoes, the idea comes that it's time to start planting it yourself. There are many ways to plant potatoes on a plot of land. There are also various secrets of gardeners who help to collect a generous harvest, and the best of them are collected in this article.

General rules for planting potatoes:

• Before planting potatoes, the land must be freshly plowed, not dry;
• Seed potatoes are put into the hole sprouts down;
• To have sprouts on the potato, it is necessary to lay it on the sun for germination;
• To prevent parasites and worms in the fossa with potatoes add wood ash or bean grain.

How to plant potatoes by hand

After you have plowed the field with a cultivator and disassembled the soil, getting rid of large lumps, you can proceed with the layout of the site. To do this, take wooden stakes and stick them against each other, pull the rope between them to get a straight line - this will be your even row for planting potatoes. Delineate the whole area in this way.

Along the resulting lines, make a furrow with a chopper or dig a hole with a shovel: their depth should be 15-20 cm. In the recesses, place the ash or bean grain, then the seed potatoes, and plant the next tuber at a distance of 35-50 cm or one human step.

Fill the potatoes with soil so that a hillock is formed. The earth after planting can also be sprinkled with wood ash. This will serve both fertilizer and protection against beetles and worms. Also between the rows of potatoes can be planted beans, calendula flowers, garlic - parasites do not like the smell of these plants, and such potatoes are not affected by such neighbors.

How to Plant a Potato with a Motoblock

Potato is the main nutritional product in Russia and the surrounding countries, it often replaces bread. Thousands of tons of this root crop are sold for a year to our compatriots. If your land is large enough, you can not only provide your whole family with food for a whole year, but also grow potatoes for sale, but this requires additional labor or a motor-block.

Planting a potato with a motorized unit is considered to be a more effective method for gardeners, requiring much less effort, but more efficient: the cultivator makes several furrows at a distance of 100 cm from each other and seed potatoes are subsequently injected into them. Usually a sower goes along a furrow and puts seeds before his feet, then another step is taken and the tuber is again put. Thus, the distance between the seedlings is maintained at 30-50 cm. Next the motoblock passes next to the sown furrow to fill it and make a new one.

How to grow potatoes by unconventional methods

There is a long forgotten way of planting root crops, which was undeservedly forgotten - it is sowing under the straw. To do this, do not need any adaptations and tricky actions, just put the potatoes on the plot and fall asleep on top of the straw. The layer should be at least 15 cm. In autumn, remove the straw, and you will see a ready crop, which can far exceed the results of the usual planting of potatoes. They also say that parasites avoid this crop.

Also this method will suit those who do not have a garden guarded, and the harvest is removed by thieves. Try before you plant potatoes to collect a sufficient amount of straw and cover it with at least a small piece of the manor. Be sure that this place passers-by voyagers will bypass, which will save your harvest.