Jelly potatoes were included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation in 2005. The variety is suitable for industrial cultivation, planting in farms, in garden plots. Tuber crops are stored for several seasons without losing germination.
General information
Characteristics of the Jelly variety
Variety dining destination, mid-early. It takes 3 months from planting to harvest. Starch content in tubers - 17% according to the characteristics.
12-15 tubers are harvested from one bush. Up to 550 centners are harvested per hectare of plantings.
The marketability of tubers is 95%, and keeping quality is 86%. The taste of the tubers is not watery.
Description
Bushes are tall, semi-erect or spreading. There are many leaves, they can be either medium or large. The waviness of the edges of the leaves is average. A corolla of snow-white flowers appears on top of the bushes.
The tubers are oval and have many small eyes. They are even, the same size. The rind is yellowish, rough or smooth. Pulp dark yellow... The weight of potatoes according to the description is 90-140 grams, there are almost no smaller tubers.
Benefits:
- great taste tubers;
- high-yielding variety;
- tubers are large, they are even in weight and volume;
- they are stored without loss of taste;
- planted for industrial or amateur cultivation;
- grade drought resistant;
- yield increases when feeding;
- easy to care for;
- resistant to disease.
Disadvantage:
Potatoes are dense, in their composition low starch contenttherefore they are not suitable for puree.
What dishes are used
When cooking, potatoes do not completely boil over and do not change their shade, therefore they do not make mashed potatoes, but add in soups, french fries and chips.
Where did it come from and how it spreads
The variety was obtained by Dutch breeders.
It is advised to plant and grow potatoes in Central (it includes: Bryansk, Vladimir, Ivanovsk, Kaluga, Kostroma, Moscow, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, Tula, Yaroslavl regions) and Volgo-Vyatsky (consists of the republics of Mari El. Mordovia. Chuvash, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod regions) regions, can be grown in other regions with a temperate and warm climate.
Growing features
"Jelly" potatoes are undemanding to care for. The variety is drought-resistant, it is required to water it only during drought and heat. In regions with a temperate or cool climate, bushes no need to water.
Which place is best for
Choose a sunny location. When planting, the soil should have an acidity of 5.0-5.5.
How to prepare the soil
In autumn on the ground fertilizers are scattered: 3 kg of manure and 100 g of ash per 1 m². And then the earth is dug to the depth of the shovel. It is not necessary to introduce nitrogen (urea), as the growing season lengthens and yields decrease.
Preparing potatoes for planting
21 days before boarding sprout tubers... Lay them in a layer in a bright, warm room with good humidity. Better yet, put the potatoes in the sun to turn them green. As a result, eyes grow on the potato.
Step-by-step order of planting varieties
- In the spring they make holes to the depth 10 cm, keeping the indent in 35 cm... And between the rows a distance of 75 cm is set aside.
- Tuber crops are thrown into the holes with their eyes up. For planting, you can take either whole potatoes or cut them into pieces.
Diseases and pests
The variety is not susceptible to cancer, cyst nematode, scab, black leg. The bushes hardly get sick with viruses.
But they can get sick late blight... To prevent the disease, it is advised to thoroughly cultivate the land before planting. In an epidemic of late blight, it is required to spray the plants with preparations containing copper. For late blight it is advised to spray with Oxyhom, Cuproxat.
For 20-30 days before digging up potatoes, it is not advised to spray the bushes with toxic drugs.
Potatoes can be attacked Colorado potato beetle, wireworm... If you put 3-4 granules of superphosphate in each hole, and first spray them with Aktellik, Karate or Decis, this will scare away the wireworm.
First, superphosphate is poured in a thin layer, the granules are sprayed with a solution of 14 ml of Actellik or Decisay, 80 ml of water and 200 ml of acetone.
Growing secrets
Variety loves light fertile lands with a lot of sand.
If there is no rain during the blooming of buds and the formation of tubers, then it is recommended to water the plantings. Watering rate of 5 liters per bush. After watering, the soil is loosened.
It is advised to apply fertilizer once a season. Bushes spud 2-3 times per season.
You can already harvest the first crop at the end of June... The growing season is 90 days.
How to harvest and store crops
From germination to full maturity 60-90 days pass. But potatoes begin to dig in already in July.
It will be better if the storage facilities have fans, temperature and humidity control. Before placing the tubers for storage, they need to be cooled, but very slowly, by half a degree per day. Storage room temperature - + 1-3 degrees Celsius. During storage, neither the taste nor the appearance of the tubers changes.
Jelly variety with normal care gives high yieldsc, resistant to disease, it tastes great as a tuber.