Potatoes grow well on sandy, sandy loam, loamy, mineral soils and cultivated peatlands.
Dense and heavy loamy soils are not suitable without prior preparation.
It is also important to choose the right “neighbor” for potatoes, so that you don’t have to suffer later, saving them from diseases and pests.
Phytophthora is a dangerous disease. Summer residents, not wanting to take risks, use chemicals to save their plants from this dangerous disease.
It is impossible to insure against late blight. But you can increase the chances that the potato will not get sick. It all starts during the planting of the vegetable.
Potatoes should be kept away from the following crops:
- tomatoes;
- sweet peppers;
- eggplants.
It is best to keep them as far apart as possible, as they carry strains that can infect potatoes.
As for predecessors, the best results are achieved by those summer residents who grow potatoes after winter grain crops.
