How to plant potatoes under the straw

Recently, many dackets refused to plant potatoes. After all, this root plant can be purchased at the beginning of the fall at a low price and do not crush their head with time-consuming landing and harvesting. In order to alleviate the difficult work of the dacket, you can land potatoes under the straw, in this article we will tell you how to do it.

Think about the process should be in the fall. In the area where landing is planned, you need to sow cereal cultures or simply step the garden. There is no need to break the fears of land. You do not need to choose grass and weeds. It is enough to treat the soil with sedients and explode with flattereres or robbles. Tubers for landing should be pre-germinated. To do this, place them for a month in a polyethylene bag with small holes.

Some daches in the spring explode soil and make wells and grooves for planting potatoes under the straw, but to minimize physical exertion, you can simply put the root root on the soil, which frightened the grass. It remains to sprinkle the potatoes with straw, enough for 20-30 cm to cover the garden with a sector. You can purchase a special straw or use dry grass. To save, after harvesting, do not throw away the straw, but dry it and put in the barn.

When you see that young shoots can be seen above the surface of your beds, pour another 10 cm filler. This method of planting potatoes allows with 1 bucket of the root of the root of the harvest of 12-15 buckets. Therefore, it is usually used on small summer cottages. Additionally fertilize the landing site is not needed. Poted layer of the hay and will serve fertilizer. Sometimes it was possible to collect 500 kg of harvest from the site of 1 acres.

Regarding watering, this method of planting potatoes does not require a lot of moisture. Therefore, it is necessary to water the sprouts once a week. Moisture is not so evaporated with straw, as from the soil. The most interesting thing is that plants in straw are less susceptible to diseases, pests will be treated less often.

Benefits of planting potatoes in Solom:

lack of need to pierce the soil;
no need to dig and sort out potatoes;
to extract root, it is enough to pull for the tops;
savings on fertilizers and pesticides;
savings on water.

Cleaning the harvest is carried out after drying the stems. The collected potatoes are clean, and the condition of tubers is completely visible for any damage. This minimizes and significantly speeds up the process of sorting potatoes. In the classic method of growing the summer, the dacket is forced to regularly easily plants and remove beetles. All these events are not necessary to conduct when potatoes grows in straw. Accordingly, you save your time and strength. All the weeds that you have collected from other beds can throw in potatoes, they will become an additional fertilizer.

The next year, the plot where the root of the root in the straw is suitable for planting the most capricious crops. This is due to the fact that the soil is fertilized by humus and residues of the hay. Titically growing potatoes in this way, you do not want to plant the root in the ground.