Potato harvest problems can be caused by weather, diseases and insect pests. But these are only the obvious reasons.
One of the less obvious factors is fertilizers. Half of gardeners still make mistakes when they add fertilizers to the soil before planting tubers.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, reminded us what you should not fertilize potatoes with.
According to experts, large doses of nitrogen are contraindicated for potatoes. In this case, the tubers will grow small.
What you shouldn't feed potatoes with
Nitrogen is found not only in mineral fertilizers.
Of the organic additives, this is primarily manure. At first, the gardener will be happy with lush and bright green potato tops.
However, beautiful and juicy tops will produce rather small tubers.
And that's not all.
The next snag is that the application of manure in most cases ends up infecting the soil and crops with scab.
What to fertilize with
It is best to apply aged compost or complex store-bought fertilizers, which take into account all the needs of this crop for nutritional supplements.
And if the soil is already fertile, then all that remains is to loosen it and water it on time.
Earlier we talked about the simplest way to grow seedlings .
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
