Growing potatoes is not easy. To obtain a rich harvest, you will need good physical shape, constant care, and measures to prevent diseases. In addition, the variety of varieties makes you think about the correct choice of one or another variety. Aurora potatoes are suitable even for novice gardeners, the variety is fruitful, unpretentious, has excellent taste, the description and characteristics of which are given in this review.
About the Aurora variety
The Aurora variety was entered in the state register in 2006. Recommended for growing on the territory of almost the entire European part of Russia.
Characteristic
The bushes are tall, powerful, so they blow more sunlight, but at the same time they can fall apart. Requires constant hilling to maintain leaves... Leaves are light green, wavy at the edges.
Corollas of flowers are violet-red, flowering is beautiful, but short-lived.
Description of the variety
Aurora potatoes are a mid-season variety. The time from planting to harvesting depends on the growing region: in the southern regions it is approximately 70 days, in the northern regions it is slightly longer - 90 days.
Possesses good storage of tubers. The variety is resistant to diseases called potato nematode and potato cancer. Late blight resistance is average.
Basically, the mass of one potato is 100-150 grams, but there are also huge ones weighing 300-500 grams. Tubers are delicate beige, oblong in shape. The skin is thin, smooth.
The eyes are small, barely noticeable, they do not interfere with peeling potatoes. The marketability of tubers is good.
You can cook any dish from the tubers, as it has excellent taste. It is for its taste that gardeners often choose it.
Yield
It is a fairly productive variety. From one hectare, you can get a yield equal to 300 quintals of potatoes. From one bush, from 9 to 20 tubers are harvested.
Benefits
The variety gained its popularity due to the following advantages:
- A great taste
- Good yield
- Sustainability to diseases
- Beautiful marketable condition
- Good safety
Disadvantages
No flaws were found. A minor drawback is that you have to wait before eating fresh potatoes... For such purposes, early varieties are better suited. But this is just an insignificant trifle, the fruitful Aurora potatoes will provide the family with fragrant, crumbly potatoes for the whole winter.
Reviews about potatoes Aurora
Potato growers and gardeners Aurora:
Lena, Kostroma.Aurora is a great variety. Beautiful, tasty, not affected by diseases. Sit down, you won't regret it!
Larisa, Nizhnevartovsk.I have been planting it for 3 years in a row, I like it very much. The potatoes are tasty, well boiled. Long-term storage.
Maxim, Voronezh.We have been planting for several years already. Enough to eat and sell. Customers love its shape, attractive appearance and taste great.
Growing
Aurora is not whimsical, but to get a good harvest, certain conditions must be met for a comfortable growth.
Step-by-step growing process
Seed preparation should be started one month before planting. For this, the seed tubers are placed in a cool and bright place.
For planting, only tubers not damaged by diseases with powerful sprouts are suitable.
Soil preparation usually begins in the fall. Semi-ripe manure is added to the soil, dug up and left until spring... It doesn't matter if the soil was not fertilized in the fall. In the spring, when planting, humus, compost or superphosphate can be added to the holes.
Fresh manure cannot be applied, it will lead to a decrease in yield due to oversaturation of soil with nitrogen.
The planting depth of tubers depends on the region and temperature regime. The warmer the climate, the deeper the holes drip. In warm regions, the depth of the hole is 13-15 cm, in cold regions - 9-10 cm.
The bushes are tall, spreading, when planting, they make a distance of 60-80 cm between the rows. Tubers are carefully placed in holes so as not to damage fragile sprouts and covered with 10 cm of earth.
Care
The main set of care measures includes:
- Watering
- Hilling
- Top dressing
When the first shoots appear, the bushes are watered after 6-7 days... Watering is not required before germination, because there is enough moisture in the tubers to start germination.
Aurora loves abundant watering. Water consumption for irrigation is 2-3 liters per 1 bush... Water every week before flowering. When buds appear, watering is increased. Moisturizing the soil abundantly when tubers are formed will help increase the yield. Thus, the yield is increased by a third.
It is better to start watering in hot weather in the evening.
It is better to huddle Aurora as much as possible, the bushes need support. The first hilling after the appearance of the first shoots, the second when the plant reaches 15 cm.
The best feeding is liquid fermented poultry droppings. Also uses urea, saltpeter for feeding.
An excess of nitrogen fertilizers is detrimental to the crop; they are used only before bud formation.
Disease resistance
Aurora has good disease resistance.
The terrible enemy of potatoes is late blightfrom which Aurora is moderately protected. Potatoes are well protected from potato cancer and golden nematode.
If you care for potatoes, water, huddle, feed, additional protection is not required.
Preparations against pests and diseases
- Potato pests - Colorado potato beetle, bear. To combat them, drugs are used Confidor and Medvetox.
- Help from the wireworm Prestige.
- To prevent brown rot in the spring, before planting, the tubers are treated with the drug Fundazol.
Harvesting
Harvesting begins 3 months after planting. With proper care, up to 25 potatoes are harvested from one bush... It is best to start harvesting in dry weather.
The harvested potatoes are sorted, the selected ones are stored in boxes at a temperature of +3 +5 degrees.
Low-maintenance Aurora potatoes are suitable even for inexperienced gardeners. High yield and taste will delight those who opted for the Aurora variety.