How to increase the potato yield from 1 hectare in the home garden?
Every self-respecting gardener considers the goal of work to increase the yield. Efforts to care for the beds are aimed at an impressive result and the question is especially worried: how much potato yield can be obtained from 1 hectare.
The potato is a root vegetable that everyone has heard of, not everyone has heard. Lunch, as well as dinner and sometimes breakfast for a Russian family is hard to imagine without delicious and nutritious potato dishes. The average potato yield in Belarus and Russia is 25 tons per hectare, but even a novice gardener understands that this is not enough! If you take care of the beds correctly and observe the conditions that are necessary to increase yields, then its figure can reach 45 tons or even two potato crops per season.
So how many tubers can you harvest, what to make, and how to grow a good potato crop?
What factors affect potato yield?
There are reasons that determine how to increase the yield of potatoes harvested per hectare. It is important to comply with a number of necessary conditions for growing a crop in a summer cottage garden or a personal plot. First of all, only high-quality planting material is needed.
Also some of the underlying factors include:
- whether the tubers were properly prepared for planting;
- how thoroughly the technical requirements for the process were met;
- when they were placed in the ground;
- region and weather conditions in which the development of potato tubers took place.
To collect excellent harvests, the quality of the soil in which they were planted is also important; and regularity of irrigation; and whether the site chosen for the future crop is fertile; and whether planting standards were fully followed.
The effectiveness of preventive measures to combat pests and diseases is the last weighty argument affecting a high or low yield of potatoes from one hundred square meters or from one hectare of land.
Of course, the gardener also needs to take into account the frequency of planting: if from year to year only potatoes appear on the same bed, then how can you expect the best yield indicators from him? If you want to delay the degeneration of culture (and this is absolutely necessary), it is imperative to alternate allotments.
Ways to increase potato yields
If a clear goal is set - to achieve a certain yield figure from one hundred square meters or hectare, then a number of conditions must be met without fail:
- It is necessary to pay attention to the variety: potatoes that give good yields in one place, for example, regions in Belarus, may not correspond at all to the conditions of another.Therefore, you need to choose exactly the variety that was bred for specific environmental conditions. For example, a variety whose average yield is 40 tons per hectare in the middle lane will not yield even 10 in the south, since it does not have resistance to arid growing conditions.
- So that the variety does not degenerate, you do not need to grow it in the same place from year to year. You can change not only the planting site, but also the planting material, switching to some other variety. Experienced gardeners know that most potatoes can be harvested if the soil is loose. It should allow both air and water to pass through: if the planting material is placed in clay soil, then regardless of the quality of a decent harvest, you should not wait - hopes will still be in vain. Best of all - suspended soil mixtures, they are ideal for this crop. Such soil provides oxygen circulation, before planting it must be fertilized in abundant quantities with organic fertilizers.
Good soil fertilization is another key to success and harvesting potatoes per hundred square meters. Despite the fact that this seems to be a self-evident moment, it is imperative to mention it. You can feed the soil with both bird droppings, humus, and compost - fertilizers of organic origin, and their mineral analogues.
Increasing yields by technological methods
When caring for potatoes, an integrated approach to this matter is important. Mandatory stages of caring for this crop must be involved - it is weeded and hilled, the gardener is fighting pests. In this case, one can rightfully expect that the harvest will be rich and the quality of tubers will be high.
In addition, you can achieve a good harvest in 2018 with the help of a few small tricks that will only be useful.
Gülich method
The way how to increase the yield of potatoes is to conditionally divide the garden plot into squares, the edge of which is one meter. A large amount of humus is applied to each site, and a potato tuber is placed in the center: it must be large.
When sprouts appear, the center of the bush is covered with earth, so that after that the shoots grow at an angle. This procedure is repeated several times, the result is a bush that seems to grow in tiers.
If you ensure sufficient watering, a potato harvest from one bush will yield up to 15 kilograms!
Meatlider method
Tubers grown in this way increase the availability of high yields. The bottom line is simple: the tubers are planted in rows so that there is a distance of half a meter between them. The distance between the rows is a meter. An earthen rampart is made around the beds, due to which moisture is retained.
If a plant potatoes correctly, then she will need frequent watering, as well as hilling and even feeding. Proper care will harvest up to 50 tons per hectare, while it is no longer necessary to allocate a large area for culture.
Leaving time is also reduced - mainly pest control.
Dutch technology
It is especially popular due to its efficiency. This method makes it possible to get up to two kilograms of high-quality tubers from a bush.
And for this you need:
- Calibrate the planting material carefully. All potatoes that go to the garden should be approximately five centimeters in diameter, and I also spray them with special preparations.
- After processing, the tubers are planted in bulk rows (height - a quarter of a meter), the row spacing should be at least 65 centimeters.
- During the season, the beds should be watered at least three times, the soil must be loosened regularly.
- Ten days before harvesting is planned, you need to completely cut the tops.Thus, the plant will ensure maximum growth: it will no longer spend resources on the green part and will let them into the tubers.
Tips from venerable gardeners
One of the simplest ways to grow good potatoes in the country, which can be conditionally called "grandfather", is that during the flowering period, flower stalks are removed from the tops. Thus, the plant will again switch some of its vitality to the formation of tubers, instead of uselessly sending them to flowers. So you can increase the yield, regardless of the place of cultivation and the selected variety.
Experienced gardeners also advise to disinfect planting material: to carry out aerosol treatment: sprinkle or soak them in a nutrient-disinfectant solution. In any case, it does not hurt to add boric acid there, which will stimulate growth.
Improves and increases home potato yields and a stimulating cut, which is made across half of the tuber: it is not necessary to cut it completely. Thanks to this, all the eyes will go into the tubers, and not just those located in the upper part of the potato.
Finally, through observations, it was found that if you arrange the potato furrows in the area from north to south, then a large crop yield is ensured.
There is also one little trick that is suitable for updating a variety - propagation by sprouts. Such a harvest will not be large right away, but the second harvest will certainly please the next year, because the seed will be fresh.
In fact, there are not so few ways to get a good harvest, both in Russia and in Belarus, potatoes. To find "your own", it is best to try each one - this method of sampling will allow you to choose the best growing method for a particular gardener. There is no consensus on how to do it right: you can combine several methods, but the combination must be correct.
And one more little trick: this root crop, like another plant, sensitively captures the mood of the gardener. The soul and care invested in it will pay off with the greatest harvest pleasing to the eye and the basement.
