Properly carried out preparatory work is the key to successfully growing a rich potato harvest.
Don't waste time and germinate potato tubers in advance - several months before planting in open ground.
Benefits of Sprouting Potatoes
If you start sprouting seed material in a timely manner, you can solve several issues at once:
- obtaining strong and healthy sprouts;
- acceleration of emergence of seedlings;
- increasing potato yields.
Potatoes can be planted without sprouting, but in this case the tubers will take much longer to sprout, and the shoots will be uneven.
There will be a greater chance that the plants will get sick, since diseases appear precisely during the germination period.
How to sprout potatoes correctly
Seed potato tubers are placed in boxes on wet sawdust, peat, humus and kept in the dark at a temperature of 12-15 degrees.
You can keep the substrate moist if you water it periodically.
Fast sprouting of potatoes
Pour a layer of wet sawdust, place the potatoes on top and cover with sawdust again. Cover with any material to prevent them from drying out.
After 3 days the potatoes can sprout.
