Nevsky Potatoes: Description of the variety, peculiarities

Potatoes are one of the most beloved vegetables. Some even refer to his second bread. From it you can prepare a huge amount of delicious garnings and dishes that are served not only on weekdays, but also on various celebrations and holidays. Great love among the admirers of this cult has won the Nevsky variety - potatoes, the description of which will not leave a single amateur gardener indifferent. For more than 30 years, he pleases the agronomists with its rich yield and excellent taste.

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Nevsky potato grade is one of the most popular domestic varieties. The breeders of the North-Western Research Institute of Agriculture of Russia were brought it in the seventies by crossing the Candidate and Veselovskaya varieties specifically for our climatic conditions. And this means that getting a healthy and maximum yield for agronomists-professionals and amateur gardeners is not much labor. We can collect from 400 to 450 kg of potatoes from 400 kg of potatoes, and under the most favorable conditions, good agricultural engineering and active feeding of culture, the yield increases to 600 kg from acres. Thanks to all its qualities, Nevsky's potatoes quickly won its popularity.

For potatoes Nevsky inherent the following characteristic:

1. Mid-early early grade - 75-90 days from the first germs to full maturity.
2. Low bushes with powerful stems and light green tops.
3. White colors give abundant bloom, but quickly fall.
4. Oval oblong tubers with smooth white-yellow leather and pinkish fine eyes.
5. White-cream pulp has a property not dark when cutting.
6. It has excellent taste. Tubers are not watery, in the process of cooking do not darken.
7. Rich in vitamin C - natural antioxidant.
8. The starch content from 11% to 13%, due to which the vegetable does not break down during cooking.
9. The weight of one tuber can reach 85-125 g. From the bush can be collected from 8 to 15 almost the same in size of tubers (from 1.5 to 1.7 kg of harvest).
10. It has good resistance to many diseases - cancer, black leg, alternariasis. Less resistant to phytoophluorosis and ordinary passion. Unstable only to nematode.
11. Quietly tolerates arid weather, does not rot in the overwhelmed soil.
12. Landing in cold soil is not recommended, may die.
13. It is kept for a long time (even the middle-late and late-late varieties in it), without requiring some special conditions. Long does not germinate.

What appearance does Nevsky potatoes can be seen in the photo.

This variety is not particularly whimsical, but there are some features of growing potatoes. If you want to get a high harvest of high-grade potatoes, be sure to stick to all recommendations for landing and care.

Selection of land and soil preparation

First of all, it is necessary to choose the right area for growing and properly prepare the soil to planting potatoes:

1. Despite the unpretentiousness, still the most suitable soils for growing potatoes Nevsky will be sandy and lightweight loams with a deep arable layer.
2. This potato variety, like any other, loves a lot of light, so the landing site is better to choose the most open and unmeasured. Do not choose areas that are darkened by houses or high trees from South and East.
3. Nevsky potatoes can be grown on the same site every 2-3 years, provided that the soil fertilizes well and with a timely anticipation of pests.
4. When choosing a site, remember that not all predecessors are suitable for growing potatoes. It is impossible to plant a culture where tomatoes and other rabies grew earlier. Also a bad predecessor will be sunflower and sargo.
5. The best predecessors of potatoes will be cucumbers, sites, carrots, cabbage, onions, sweet peppers, peas, beans, corn, beets and garlic.
6. Those gardeners who have long been engaged in the cultivation of Nevsky's variety, are recommended to plant potatoes in those areas where Oats have previously developed. It is a natural gridder of soil from various infections, especially fungal. And the early spring overloading in the ground, he gives her his warmth.
7. In the fall, it is necessary to prepare the soil for landing - it's good to fit it well. Most of all, the decomposed compost is suitable for this, which not only supports the soil, but will also warm it up. A good fertilizer will be potassium and phosphate.
8. If on the site that you plan to land the potatoes, there is still a lot of snow, you need not wait until it comes downself. It is better to remove it manually, thereby speeding up the heating of the soil.
9. As soon as the soil warms well, it must be easily contacted. The best organic feeding for this will be a bird litter, peat, compost, dung alive. You can also support the soil with phosphoric, nitric and potash solutions. The norms of fertilizers made depend on the soil fertility. Another excellent fertilizer that significantly increases the yield of culture will be wood ash. It contains almost all the necessary trace elements in which potatoes are very needed.

Preparation of seed potatoes to landing

If you do not have the opportunity, desire or time to independently prepare tubers for landing, seed potatoes are not a problem. For this, today there are many specialized stores. For those who still decided to deal with the cultivation of culture on their own, it is necessary to know how the potatoes seed Nevsky correctly prepare for landing:

1. For seed potatoes, tubers weighing no more than 60-80.
2. Before starting germination, tubers need to hold in a heatman's solution for 2-3 minutes. It will save seed potatoes from pests and diseases.
3. Disinflected tubers decompose on the floor or other surface indoors with air temperature 15-18 ° C and exhaust them within 2-3 weeks.
4. Sprouts at potatoes Nevsky is very gentle and risky to break down with any careless touch. Therefore, heal the potatoes to the size of the sprouts of not more than 12 mm.
5. Unlike other varieties, Nevsky potatoes are not recommended to cut into parts.
6. Gestroinated tubers are placed again in cooler conditions so that they do not germinate further. Thus, you also harde seed potatoes.

Planting potatoes in the ground

Nevsky's potatoes can not be planted in a cold ground, but also to delay the landing is also not worth it, it can lead to low yield. When late with landing for 1-2 weeks, you can lose 50% of the total crop. In the first days of May, when the soil has already warmed up well (up to 6-8 ° C), and you have conducted all the necessary work on the preparation of the site and soil, you can begin landing potatoes.

Act as follows:

1. It is more convenient to engage in planting potatoes - one digging holes and bursts tubers, the second lays fertilizer and tubers.
2. Roach wells to the depth of the bayonet shovel - approximately 20 cm. The depth depends on the time of the landing - the later, the deeper the hole.
3. The distance between the wells should be at least 40 cm, and the distance between the rows is less than 60-70 cm. The distance must be withstanding so that it is convenient to make the bruises in the future.
4. In each well, lower the prepared fertilizers - a dung alive or a bird litter. You can add a refontaneous joke husk and a raw chicken eggs shell mixed with wood ash.
5. Mix the fertilizer with the ground and put in each well potato sprouts up. Put each straw land.
6. After you finish the landing, crush the ground with wooden robbles and sprinkle a planted area.
7. You can see the first shoots of high-quality seeds after 15-20 days.

Nevsky Potato Care

Landing tubers - this is just half the case. Any culture requires timely departure and potatoes of Nevsky variety is no exception. Potato care consists of the following steps:

1. Until that time, the first sprouts will appear, it is necessary to loosen the soil 2-3 times and conduct a weeding from weeds that grow like mushrooms after the rain.
2. Regularly moisturize the soil, especially during the flowering of bushes - no less often 2-3 times a week in the absence of natural precipitation. If the plot with potatoes is small, use to watering the dilated water.
3. Do not water the bushes in the hot period of the day. It is better to do it early in the morning or late in the evening, after sunset. When used to water the hose, do not direct the jet directly on the bush, it may damage it. It will correctly put on the sprayer hose.
4. It is best to use drip irrigation for watering.
5. A week after the landing, the first chip harrow is recommended for greater saturation with its oxygen. The following harrowing can be spent a week after the previous one.
6. The first inter-row cultivation is carried out when the tops are closed. Works are carried out by a cultivator, hoe or cip, depending on the area of \u200b\u200bthe plot. The inter-row treatment at a depth of 8 cm helps to be freed from weeds, blows the soil, thereby facilitating the oxygen access to it and accelerating moisture exchange. If the soil is too wet, cultivation is allowed on a greater depth (up to 10-12 cm).
7. For the entire growing season, cultivation is carried out at least 3 times, if necessary, up to 4 times.
8. In order for the tubers well to develop, it is necessary to dip the bushes - to spill them with a loose soil, forming small bugs of the earth around. Works are properly carried out on cloudy days on a moistened soil in the early morning or in the evening, after sunset. The first dips is carried out immediately after the first germs, then they will grow more intensively, plus we will die weeds.
9. The second hyphenation is desirable to spend in the period when the sprouts are reached 25-30 cm in height. Pre-conduct weeds of weeds and only after that the enhancement itself.
10. If the cultivation of potatoes is carried out on loose soils in the southern regions of the country, it will be enough for 2 perceptions for the entire growing season. On heavy soils of the northern regions, the amount of gluts must be increased to 3-4 times.
11. Any emphasis is made only after the rain or artificial soil moisturizing, using a motoblock or a black.

Nevsky's potato grade is remarkable in that it has high stability to almost all diseases, except for nematodes. If you do not struggle with this disease, then 90% of the crop may die. The affected bushes need to dig and destroy. To strengthen the stability of Nevsky's potatoes to nematode, it is necessary to increase the immunity of tubers, fertilizing the soil for the cultivation of organic fertilizers.

Harvest

Although Nevsky is considered an average-early variety, already in mid-July, a young potato can be tasted in the period of the halting of the tops. Full drying of the tops falls on the middle or end of August. This will be the signal to the beginning of harvesting. By autumn, before the start of the cooling harvest, it is necessary to remove, because the potatoes of this variety does not like cold soil. Dig potatoes better in sunny dry weather so that the vegetables manage to dry outdoer. Then the harvest is cleaned by storage in the cellar.

Reviews of Potato Nevsky

This variety quickly won respect among agronomists and amateur gardeners, which left Nevsky's Positive feedback about potatoes:

1. The first thing that was noted is a high stable yield.
2. Unpretentiousness to soils and easy tolerance of drought and convergence.
3. Excellent resistance to most diseases.
4. Potatoes are well and long stored, not sparkling.
5. According to its taste and the content of starch is suitable more for extinguishing, for the preparation of chips, for cooking on side dishes and salads. Not very suitable for frying, than a little bit upset fans of potatoes.