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How to protect potatoes from scab: summer residents revealed secrets - save the harvest
13.05.2024 17:11
Among the common diseases that can significantly reduce potato yields, scab stands out in particular.
It occurs quite often and it is not always possible to defeat it at the right stage.
Therefore, the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", scientist-agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh suggests doing everything possible to protect the vegetable from the disease.
What preventive measures can be identified?
Correct cultivation
First of all, it is important to remember that changing the place where potatoes are planted significantly reduces the risk of scab development. Therefore, it is necessary to find new areas for the plant.
If this is not possible, then you need to use the power of green manure: planting it before or after harvesting gives excellent results.
Be careful with organics
Many are sure that there is nothing better than organics for a quality potato harvest. Perhaps this point of view has a right to exist.
However, incorrect use of organic fertilizers significantly increases the risk of scab.
Therefore, we refrain from applying such fertilizers just before the planting procedure.
Mineral fertilizers
But substances of this profile, on the contrary, are able to reduce the risk of scab development. It is especially good to introduce them in the right proportions.
In this case, the soil will be enriched and healthy.
As a rule, the following scheme is used: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are introduced in equal quantities.
Earlier we talked about the misconceptions that cause currants to produce a poor harvest .
