Put seed potatoes done right
The tastiest potatoes always grow in your own garden. The fact that you can watch seed potatoes grow into new potato plants and that you know that you have contributed to it also contributes to enjoyment. In order to prepare a bed well for the next year, it is always a good option to first plant potatoes in it.
How to find the right seed potatoes
- To be as tasty as possible potatoes To harvest from your own garden, you should use untreated seed potatoes.
- You can either get these from specialist retailers, but ask specifically about untreated seeds. Here you have the choice between different types.
- A good option may also be your neighbor, who will be happy to help you in most cases leaves a few potatoes from his own harvest, which he keeps for sowing over the winter Has.
- But you can also use the remaining tubers that were left over from the stored potatoes at the end of winter.
Potatoes thrive without much effort
- Let the seeds germinate a little, but this usually happens automatically towards the end of winter.
- Plant the potatoes in the ground between mid-March and late May.
- Prepare the bed for the seed potatoes by digging the soil 30 to 40 centimeters deep. The potatoes thank you when they ferment well compost mix in.
- Leave the seed potatoes only three sprouts and remove the rest.
- Make furrows about twelve centimeters deep and place a potato in the furrow every 40 cm with the germs facing up. So much space is needed between the plants to be able to pile them up later.
- Cover the seed potatoes with soil and pile a small mound over the whole row.
Planting and harvesting potatoes - this is how you go about it
You can plant potatoes in your garden from April and then, depending on the variety, from ...
You can harvest early varieties as early as the end of July, and the bed that has been loosened by the potato harvest can then be used again for other plants in the same year.
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