Description of the potato variety Lyubava, features of cultivation and care
In a short summer, it is better to grow Lyubava potatoes in order to get tubers in 40–45 days. Early ripening varieties have, in addition to short ripening periods, other advantages. Vegetable growers appreciate the taste in potato tubers. It is necessary to choose those varieties that are suitable for cooking, and are well preserved until the next harvest, without losing their value. You need to know the peculiarities of growing potatoes, how to properly care for the plantings in order to get high yields.
Biological characteristics of the vegetable
Potatoes are vegetables that are intended for eating, preparing starch and alcohol, and for feeding livestock. It is the table varieties of potatoes that summer residents grow in the garden. In tubers of this type of starch, no more than 20 percent, and the rest is made up of vitamins, beta-carotenes, and other useful elements. The Lyubava variety belongs to the table type of vegetable culture. It is intended for preparing salads, frying, baking, ideal for soups.
The description of the variety includes the fact that Lyubava's tubers:
- oval with eyes located at an average depth;
- red-skinned, rough to the touch;
- with white pulp;
- weighing from 109 to 210 grams.
The potato variety Lyubava is valued for its early ripening 70–75 days after planting. Proper care of a vegetable plant will lead to the digging of 20 tubers from one bush.
The vegetable bred by Siberian specialists is noted for the compactness of the bush. The stems of medium height are covered with green leaves, slightly wavy at the edges. During flowering, the bushes look decorative. The potato field has an elegant look thanks to the lilac flowers with a yellow center.
The variety is chosen for growing in the climatic conditions of Siberia and the Far East. It also pleases farmers with a harvest of 540 centners per hectare.
Benefits of growing early maturing potatoes
The early ripe potato variety Lyubava is grown everywhere. In order for the vegetable to ripen on time, it is necessary:
- Before planting, the seed is vernalized. Tubers are placed on shelves in a bright room in two layers at a temperature of 12-15 degrees. For wet germination, the planting material placed in boxes or baskets is poured with sawdust, peat or humus moistened with a solution of mineral salts.
- The predecessors of potatoes can be legumes, pumpkin. Crops will enrich the soil with nitrogen, which is important for potato planting.
- Tubers weighing 100 grams are planted with short and strong sprouts.
- The soil temperature at a depth of 10 centimeters during planting should be 6-8 degrees Celsius.
- 1-2 tubers are placed in the hole, planting 70x70 centimeters in a square-nesting way.
- Together with the planting material, 200 grams of humus is introduced into the hole. Will not interfere with potato plantings of 10 grams of superphosphate and 5 grams of potassium salt.
- The tubers are deepened by 8-10 centimeters if the soil is heavy. On light soils, a planting depth of 12-15 centimeters is sufficient.
When properly planted, the characteristic of the variety consists of:
- early harvest in the middle of summer;
- preparation of tubers for long-term storage and transportation;
- wonderful taste of potatoes;
- receiving from one hundred square meters up to 40 kilograms of vegetables.
Even potatoes grown on a small plot will provide a family with delicious meals throughout the winter.
Care rules for obtaining high yields
In particular, caring for a vegetable crop includes watering, feeding, harrowing and hilling.
During the formation of tubers, Lyubava potatoes require a lot of moisture. When the summer is dry, you will need to water the field using 2-3 buckets per square meter. Better to irrigate in furrows.
Fertilizers used for a garden plant consist of wood ash, organic and mineral substances. You can use mullein diluted with water in a 1: 5 ratio. But bird droppings are fertilized in a low concentration of organic matter in the solution - 1:12.
Of the mineral complexes, superphosphate (30-50 grams) with ammonium nitrate (10-15 grams) and potassium salt (15-20 grams) is useful. Fertilizers in liquid form are better absorbed. Therefore, they are poured with ten liters of water and fertilized with potato planting.
If a vegetable crop is tied weakly, and the tops develop powerfully, then there is a lot of nitrogen and moisture in the soil. They correct the situation by introducing wood ash and fertilizers consisting of phosphorus and potassium into the soil between the rows of potatoes.
You can rid the potatoes of the Lyubava variety from weeds by harrowing. It is useful to carry out the procedure after planting, loosening the earth to a depth of five centimeters. As soon as the seedlings reach ten centimeters in height, the aisles are loosened in perpendicular directions. During the summer, it is necessary to carry out loosening 2-3 times.
Spud potatoes absolutely necessary. This will help develop additional underground stems and increase the number of tubers. Hilling is carried out when the earth is moistened. The first time in the period when the stems of a vegetable plant reached 20 centimeters. The second procedure is needed before flowering. Huddle 15-18 centimeters.
To preserve the varietal advantages of potatoes, it is necessary to renew the planting material every 3-4 years. Then try grow a potato variety from seed, although this is a laborious task.
Diseases and pests
Although they note the resistance of the Lyubava variety to diseases, with improper care, the vegetable is exposed to phytophthora. The fungus develops during a rainy summer. Large brown spots are found on the leaves, and a whitish bloom is found below, where fungal spores are hidden. Symptoms of the disease, if left untreated, go to the stems, tubers. Potato fruits are covered with areas of brownish hard spots. After digging up potatoes, diseased tubers are separated from healthy ones and destroyed. So that late blight does not affect the planting of the vegetable, it is necessary to huddle the plants high.
Ring rot is known to attack the vascular tissue of tubers. On the fruits of potatoes, ring-shaped stripes of a cream shade appear. And around the adjacent tissues become glassy. Disease prevention is to dry the crop after harvest. For planting, use only healthy material, carefully selected.
Of the pests of potatoes, the Colorado potato beetle is dangerous. There are many methods of dealing with it. This includes chemicals and manual collection of beetles and larvae.
It is easy to grow potatoes, but observing the rules of vegetable farming.
Gardeners about the variety Lyubava
To learn about the variety in detail, one description of the Lyubava potato is not enough. In choosing a vegetable, one must rely on the opinion of gardeners who grow potatoes on their plots.
After reading the reviews, everyone will be convinced that the early-ripening variety Lyubava must be grown. In one voice, vegetable growers note the unpretentiousness of the plant. Even under unfavorable climatic and weather conditions, quality tubers are obtained. A vegetable rarely gets sick. The only thing is that it is attacked by the Colorado potato beetle, like other varieties of potatoes. The variety is also appreciated by farmers. Smooth rounded tubers are distinguished by their excellent presentation, do not get damaged during transportation. Those who have planted Lyubava at least once leave seeds for planting next year.
