How to Plant Potatoes to Harvest 10 Times More: A Clever Trick – and You’ll Have Nowhere to Put the Harvest
Not every gardener can answer the question: how to plant potatoes correctly so that they grow high-quality and there is a lot of them.
Growing potatoes involves preparing tubers, sprouting, fertilizing the soil, and the first hilling. In addition, it is important to determine the correct planting dates.
Potatoes are an unpretentious crop, where you plant them, you will harvest them. But what will they be like? This is a big question. With this approach, it is difficult to determine how much potato you will be able to harvest.
It's a shame when you spend all the summer months carefully tending to potatoes and then harvesting enough for two bags.
Simple tips will help increase your yield several times.
How to Plant Potatoes Properly
First of all, you need to work with the planting material and disinfect it. To do this, use a clever trick with garlic: 350 g per 5 liters of water. Spray the planting material with the prepared solution and you can sow.
Forget about ash, chalk and lime when it comes to potatoes. They alkalize the soil, which can cause scab, which loves an alkaline environment. The yield will definitely decrease.
Before planting in open ground, make a deep transverse cut on the tubers to awaken the lower buds, which often do not germinate. And thanks to the cut, the juices will be evenly distributed between the buds.
Don't forget to dip the knife in a weak solution of potassium permanganate before each cut.
