Potato treatment calendar for diseases and pests
by As is well known, it is easier to prevent a disease than to cure it. This rule applies not only to people – it is …
Category: Potato
Seed potatoes – how to choose and store until spring
Some gardeners buy seed potatoes, while others try to save their planting material – after all, it is not always possible to buy the right …
What to do if seed potatoes go bad
Seed potatoes spoil in different ways, depending on the conditions in which they were stored. Most often, the vegetable rots, sprouts, dries out, or becomes …
5 Ways to Plant Potatoes from Five Different Agronomists
To grow or not to grow “second bread” on the plot is a question that most summer residents decide positively. Another thing is that you …
How to treat potatoes from diseases and pests before planting
To protect potatoes from diseases and pests during the growing season, it is important to take care of the future harvest in advance and treat …
Potatoes under film – how to get a harvest three weeks earlier
You want to get your first potato harvest as early as possible. It is not difficult at all if you start growing early potato varieties …
Your own potatoes already in June: secrets of an early harvest
Young potatoes already in June are the dream of any summer resident. But if you stop dreaming and set a clear goal, it is quite …
7 Ways to Prepare Potatoes for Planting
We present simple and effective procedures, thanks to which potato shoots will be friendly, plants will be healthy, and the future harvest will be rich! …
Why Potatoes Rotting in the Cellar – 6 Most Dangerous Diseases
Do you dream of eating potato pancakes and potato dumplings with meat all winter long? Then immediately embark on the warpath against dangerous potato diseases. …
What to do with potato weed in autumn: step-by-step instructions
Prepare your sleigh in the summer and your potato field in the fall. Your future potato harvest will largely depend on how you prepare the …
How to improve the shelf life of potatoes: 5 simple tips
Potatoes are not called “second bread” for nothing. They appear on our tables more often than other vegetables. Therefore, special attention is paid to the …
How to Save Potatoes from Heat and Drought – 5 Simple Techniques
It’s fine if you’re growing just a few beds of potatoes to treat your family to some young potatoes in the middle of summer. But …
Potato fertilizing: necessary or not?
Potatoes are an unpretentious crop, capable of yielding a harvest even in difficult conditions. Therefore, opinions on whether they need regular fertilizing usually differ. We …
Potatoes from sprouts are the fastest way to update the variety
If you don’t have much planting material or the potatoes you’re growing have started to degenerate, you can get new plants from sprouts. Want to …
The First Potatoes in June – 5 Steps to an Ultra-Early Harvest
You want to dig up young potatoes as early as possible, especially since last year’s tubers are no longer as tasty and healthy in the …
How to plant potatoes if it’s raining and the ground is soggy
The weather does not ask us for permission to rain or other precipitation, and sometimes it falls right during the sowing campaign. The timing of …
Why Potatoes Have Holes: 3 Main Enemies of Tubers and Weapons Against Them
Potato tubers may have holes for various reasons. Most often, insect pests are to blame: mole cricket, cockchafer, potato moth, and others. Potato tubers may …
Why did the potato crop fail again? 7 most common reasons
Potatoes are a crop whose yield depends on many factors. These include weather, the presence of nutrients in the soil, crop rotation, and others. Of …
In the field, in boxes or on beds? How to plant potatoes in your conditions
How to grow a rich potato harvest? This question worries everyone who regularly plants potatoes. However, there is no general secret to success. It is …
Growing potatoes in the same place
Experienced gardeners know firsthand what crop rotation is. When growing the same crop in a constant place, the soil becomes depleted, the yield decreases, and …
Growing potatoes from seedlings – have you tried it?
In fact, not only lovers of experiments resort to growing potatoes from seeds. In this way, they obtain virus-free planting material, increase the yield and …
What diseases does potato have: we determine by the harvest
Unfortunately, such a common garden crop as potatoes is susceptible to many infectious and non-infectious diseases, as well as the action of insect pests. And …
How to Store Potatoes: 10 Most Important Rules
Potatoes are quite demanding in terms of storage conditions. We will tell you what conditions they need to keep without losing their taste properties for …
Potato varieties resistant to the Colorado potato beetle – myth or reality?
The resistance of potato varieties to the Colorado potato beetle depends on many factors. These include care, agricultural technology, and even the “taste” of the …
Potato tops covered in spots: we find out the reason and save the harvest
The appearance of spots on potato tops indicates that something is wrong with the crop. Normally, there should be no additional coloring on potato foliage. …
Proper hilling of potatoes – timing, tools and whether it is necessary at all
Do you walk along potato furrows with a hoe more out of habit or do you not even know what the purpose of hilling potatoes …
10 folk remedies for Colorado potato beetle on potatoes
Some summer residents are sure that only chemicals can destroy pests, while others steadfastly adhere to folk methods that have not yet lost their effectiveness. …
Preparing Potatoes for Planting: Step-by-Step Instructions
Smart gardeners know: if you want to get a rich healthy potato harvest, it is not enough to just throw the tubers into the soil …
Potatoes in straw – the best option for lazy summer residents
If you are unlucky with the soil on your plot, you rarely visit the garden or simply do not want to spend your weekends bent …
12 Ways to Plant Potatoes: Traditional and New
May is the time of active planting of potatoes. And the headache of all summer residents is how to save space on the plot and …