Characteristics of Ilyinsky Potato

Owners of private estates often grow early varieties of vegetables. Some for implementation, others for their needs. One of these varieties is Ilyinsky potato. This is a table variety that is suitable for cultivation in open ground in the Central Black Earth region of the country and in neighboring countries. In the southern regions, it is cultivated with abundant watering, when the soil should get wet up to 0.5 m deep.In such conditions, you can get sufficiently large yields that meet species norms.

Characteristics of Ilyinsky potato

X of characteristic plants

potato varieties Ilyinsky able to produce, in the stage of technical maturity, more than 350W / ha with good care. When harvesting young potatoes for sale, the yield will decrease slightly.

The marketability of tubers is about 99%. This is slightly higher than the average of other species, which makes its cultivation profitable.

Description of the bush

The bushes of the plant are most often upright, up to 60 cm tall, consist of 4 to 6 stems. The stems are well leafy in the upper part, and from the bottom they can be bare.

Potato leaves, but without waviness along the edge, grow to 12 cm. The colors are green, saturated. The veins are weakly expressed.

Apical inflorescences consist of simple flowers. The flowers are small red-violet. Petals can grow together at the base.

Up to 12 fruits ripen in the fruit nest. Their weight is from 55g to 160g. The tubers are oval, covered with a thin skin, reddish color. On it are red eyes of a small size. They are located in little visible recesses. White flesh contains up to 18% dry matter.

Description of the tubers

The fruits have a good taste. Starch in them is about 17%, and sugar 0.12%. When slicing, the slices do not darken, which makes it possible to cook potato pancakes and pancakes that remain light. During cooking and frying, the flesh does not crumble, but retains its shape. Mashed potatoes turn out magnificent and fragrant.

Ripe fruits of the potato, sent for storage, do not lose their specific features for a long time. The tubers remain dense, do not fade and do not lose their taste. More than 93% of the crop is well preserved until new tubers are harvested next year.

Especially tasty, crisp potatoes can be cooked. Therefore, on an industrial scale, this type of tuber is recommended for the manufacture of chips.

Advantages

Ilyinsky potato was widely used in the fields due to its features.

1. It has a high yield.
2. Presentation of products of excellent quality.
3. Tubers are characterized by high keeping quality.
4. Fruits are suitable for various heat treatments.

Also, the advantages that Ilyinskaya potato possesses include its resistance to viruses such as:

• cancer;
• late blight on tuber;
• common scab.

The characteristic of cancer includes the formation of white growths on tubers and green on the stems, which begin to rot over time. Such a nuisance does not threaten our potatoes, as well as the presence of common scab on the fruits of the foci.

Disadvantages

Ilyinsky potato is affected by late blight. Of the pests that can cause significant damage, you can call the golden cyst-forming nematode and Colorado beetles.

The wireworm and the bear can also sometimes enjoy the fruits and leave traces of their visit. Small through holes remain from the wireworm, and the bear spoils the appearance, sometimes leaving only the peel.

Soil for potatoes

The characteristic of the methods for caring for this type of tuber claims that the soil in which the cultivar of our potato Ilyinsky is grown, should be prepared in the fall. To do this, choose a site where nightshade cultures have not been cultivated for at least 3 years. Rotted manure is applied to the soil surface, about 250 kg per 1 hundred parts.You can sprinkle with it a complex mineral fertilizer, which includes:

• ammonium nitrate 2kg;
• potassium salt 1.5kg;
• nitroammophosk 1, 5 kg.

If there was lush vegetation in this area, then there is enough nitrogen in the soil and the percentage of ammonium nitrate in the fertilizer can be reduced.

After making fertilizing, dig deeply soil or to plow by small mechanical equipment. In spring, the soil is leveled and beds are prepared.

On loamy soils, you can grow vegetables on high ridges, and in other soils in simple rows. Leave about 60cm between the rows and place them perpendicular to the East-West line, and between the holes should be 30cm. With this arrangement of rows, the plants will be better lit by the sun.

Preparing seed potatoes

Growing the Ilyinsky variety of potatoes, knowing the description of its features, is quite simple. Tubers must be landscaped and germinated before planting at a temperature of at least 16 ° C, exposed to light. Germination time is up to 1 month.

When planting on the site, the soil should warm up to 10 ° C, and the potato sprouts reach 4cm in height. The tubers are treated with the Prestige preparation, which will protect the plants almost to their flowering, and planted in holes up to 12 cm deep.

Planting Care

In the process of growing, Ilyinsky potato cultivar needs to be spud 3 times per season.The characteristics of the plant allow it to tolerate drought, but it will be better if you water the area at least 3 times during the growing season. Feeding, which is added to water, is combined with watering.

The description of the care includes the prevention of viruses. To prevent the occurrence of late blight, foliar treatment of plants with preparations of copper sulfate, Bordeaux fluid or potassium permanganate will help.

Gromoboy 1, Gromoboy 2 or Medvedtoks U are used against nematodes and other pests living in the soil. When larvae of the Colorado potato beetle appear, the bushes are sprayed with solutions Actara, Antizhuk and Ratibor.

Conclusion

Choosing the Ilyinsky early potato variety to grow on your site, you will get the crop at the very beginning of summer. It can be used for cooking, as well as marketed. Young potatoes are in great demand, and not all people have their own plots and the ability to grow it. Tasty and fragrant dishes made from organic harvested by hand will be a good argument for planting tubers next year.