How to prepare potatoes for planting

As a rule, truck farmers who are just beginning to comprehend the basics of this art are asked a reasonable question: "How to prepare the potatoes for planting, so as a result there was an excellent harvest?"

First, let's talk about the harvest

Choose for planting you need tubers, the mass of which ranges from fifty to one hundred grams. If you have smaller tubers and weight, you need to roll three or four pieces in one hole. Naturally, it is necessary to look at the tubers for spots, rot and so on.

Answering further to the question of how to prepare potatoes for planting, it is worth mentioning that a day or two or three tubers must be warmed at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. After that, they need to be arranged in one layer so that they are all "caressed" by daylight. For this purpose, a window sill, a floor, and a low box are suitable.

How to prepare potatoes for planting, what other rules should be observed? About a month or a little more may be needed in order to germinate seed potato tubers, because this approach will ensure an excellent harvest. Naturally, light is needed, otherwise the root system will be too weak, and it is unlikely that this will allow you to get an excellent harvest.

It is also worth noting that, in addition to how to prepare potatoes for planting, the above described method of germinating tubers must comply with several rules:

- every five days the tubers are turned over;

- as often as possible, the tubers need to be treated with a special mineral solution to accelerate the qualitative process of germination;

- after the time for warming up has ended, potatoes must be sprinkled with a solution of copper sulfate, for which one teaspoon of the substance is diluted in three liters of water and sprayed or dropped into it for one minute tubers;

- every three days it is necessary to spray potatoes with nutrient solutions, not forgetting about clean water, which is used in the middle of the day and in the morning.

The potato planting technology has its own rules. The third decade of April is an excellent time for planting seedlings or already sprouted potatoes. If the temperature by this time does not please with its warmth, the planting site with the vegetable is covered with a film, is covered with moist soil, or covered with paper. And early in the morning you need to sprinkle with clean water.

But this applies exclusively to the early-ripening variety. If you are a medium-ripe, then it is worthwhile to plan the planting of potatoes in the beginning or middle of May.

If your site is very close to groundwater, you are lucky: the soil in this place very quickly heats up and is ventilated. Therefore, it is necessary to plant potatoes in the ridges, the height of which should not exceed 15 centimeters, the depth of planting is six centimeters, and the distance between them is sixty centimeters.

In case the soil is far from ideal, it should be razed with a rake after landing, thereby slowing down the process of evaporation of moisture.

If you list all the methods of growing potatoes, you will need to write more than one article. It is worth remembering the two most important methods: seedlings and germinated in advance tubers.