How to increase the yield of potatoes from 1 hectare in the home garden?

Every self-respecting gardener considers the goal of work to be to increase the yield. Efforts to care for the beds are aimed at an impressive result, and the question is of particular concern: what potato yield can be obtained from 1 hectare.

Potato is a root crop that everyone has heard of, not everyone has heard of. Lunch, as well as dinner and sometimes breakfast of a Russian family, is hard to imagine without tasty 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 comply with the conditions that are necessary to increase productivity, then its indicator can reach 45 tons or even two potato crops per season.

So how many tubers can be harvested, what to do, and how to grow a good potato crop?

What factors affect the yield of potatoes?

There are reasons that determine how to increase the yield of potatoes harvested per hectare. It is important to observe a number of necessary conditions for growing crops in a country garden or garden plot. First of all, only high-quality planting material is needed.

Other key factors include:

• whether the tubers were properly prepared for planting;
• how well the technical requirements for the process were followed;
• when they were placed in the ground;
• the region and weather conditions in which the development of potato tubers took place.

In order to collect excellent yields, the quality of the soil in which they are planted is also important; and regularity of irrigation; and whether the plot chosen for the future crop is fertile; and whether the landing norms were fully observed.

The effectiveness of preventive measures to combat pests and diseases is the last weighty argument that affects the high or low yield of potatoes from 1 acre or 1 hectare of land.

Of course, the gardener also needs to take into account the frequency of planting: if only potatoes appear on the same bed from year to year, then how can you expect better yields from him? If you want to delay the degeneration of culture (and this is absolutely necessary), you must necessarily alternate allotments.

Ways to increase potato yields

If a clear goal is set - to achieve a figure of a certain yield per hundred or hectare, then a number of conditions must be met without fail:

1. It is necessary to pay attention to the variety: potatoes that give good yields in one place, for example, regions in Belarus, may not meet the conditions of another at all. Therefore, you need to choose exactly the variety that was bred for specific environmental conditions. For example, a variety with an average yield of 40 tons per hectare in the middle lane will not yield even 10 in the south, since it does not have resistance to dry growing conditions.
2. 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 landing 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 must pass both air and water: 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 - slurry 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 getting a potato harvest from a hundred square meters. Despite the fact that this seems to be a matter of course, it must be mentioned. You can feed the soil with both bird droppings, humus, as well as compost - fertilizers of organic origin, and their mineral counterparts.

Increasing yields by technological means

When caring for potatoes, an integrated approach to this matter is important. Mandatory stages of caring for this crop should be involved - it is weeded and spudded, the gardener fights pests. In this case, you can rightfully count on the fact that the harvest will be rich, and the quality of the 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 help.

Gülich method

The way to increase the yield of potatoes is that the household plot must be conditionally divided into squares, the edge of which is one meter. A large amount of humus is applied to each plot, 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, resulting in a bush that grows as if in tiers.

If sufficient watering is provided, the potato crop from one bush will give up to 15 kilograms!

Mitlider method

Tubers grown in this way increase the availability of high yields. The bottom line is simple: the tubers are planted in rows in such a way 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 you plant potatoes correctly, then she will need frequent watering, as well as hilling and even top dressing. Proper care will harvest up to 50 tons per hectare, while it is no longer necessary to allocate a large area for cultivation.

The time of care is also reduced - mainly pest control.

Dutch technology

Differs in special popularity, thanks to efficiency. This method makes it possible to obtain up to two kilograms of high-quality tubers from a bush.

And for this you need:

1. Carefully calibrate the planting material. All potatoes that go to the garden should be approximately five centimeters in diameter, and I also spray them with special preparations.
2. After processing, the tubers are planted in bulk rows (height - a quarter of a meter), row spacing should be at least 65 centimeters.
3. During the season, the beds should be watered at least three times, the soil must be loosened regularly.
4. Ten days before harvesting is planned, you need to completely cut off the tops. Thus, the plant will ensure maximum growth: it will no longer spend resources on the green part and put them into tubers.

One of the simple 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 sending them uselessly into flowers. So you can increase the yield, regardless of the place of cultivation and the selected variety.

Experienced gardeners also advise disinfecting planting material: carry out aerosol treatment: spray 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 domestic yields of potatoes and a stimulating cut, which is made halfway across the tuber: you do not need to cut to the end. Thanks to this, all the eyes will go into the tubers, and not just the potatoes located in the upper part.

Finally, through observations, it was found that if the potato furrows are located 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 the variety - propagation by sprouts. Immediately such a harvest will not be large, but the second harvest will certainly please you next year, because the seed material will be fresh.

In fact, there are not so few ways to get a good harvest, both in Russia and in Belarus, of potatoes. To find “your own”, it is best to try each one - this sampling method 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 literate.

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 a pleasing eye and a cellar with the greatest yield.