Characteristics of the potato variety Irbitsky

For gardeners of the Volga-Vyatka, Ural regions and Western Siberia, Irbitsky potato will be a good acquisition. This is one of the new varieties of Russian selection, which allows you to harvest enough from a small summer cottage to provide your family with winter supplies.

Characteristics of the potato variety Irbit

Irbit potato passed state registration in 2012, it is recommended for cultivation in the area x with a temperate continental climate.

Description

Medium early ripening variety. 65-80 days elapse from seedling emergence to technical ripeness. the originator is the Ural Research Institute of Agriculture, a semi-erect, medium-sized, intermediate-type bush (between compact and spreading). The tops are dark green in color.

A medium-sized leaf, moderately dissected, forms large inflorescences with red-violet corollas. The tubers are round, red, weighing 110-180 g. Usually, 6-8 tubers with a total weight of up to 2 or more kilograms are formed under the bush. The skin is thin, smooth, with small eyes. The pulp is light yellow. Potato has good taste, medium digestibility.The starch content is 12-16%.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The variety Irbitsky has a number of characteristics due to which summer residents acquire for planting its planting material of the super elite class:

• Adaptability to agroclimatic conditions. According to the State Register, the culture is recommended for 3 regions of the Russian Federation, but it is successfully grown in other territories of the Russian Federation and abroad.
• High yield: 255 to 390 centners are harvested from 1 ha, the maximum figure is 468 centners.
• Possibility of long-term storage.
• Widespread use in cooking.
• Moderate resistance to many diseases: potato cancer, various types of mosaics, viruses X, Y, L, S, nematode.

There are no particular flaws in the variety, as described. Like any other kind of potato, this one shows large yields under a number of conditions.

Planting potatoes

One of the necessary requirements is a quality planting material. It is better if it is a superelite or elite, i.e. tubers that have all varietal qualities and have not accumulated disease. Preparation takes place traditionally. In the autumn they take care of the soil.

Soil preparation

A well-lit area is allocated for cultivating the crop. The soil characteristic most acceptable for the Irbit potato variety is as follows: loose, fertile, slightly acidic, although the variety will grow on any soil.It is not recommended to grow a crop in one place for more than 2-3 years, after other representatives of the nightshade family, to place beds next to plantings of tomatoes, eggplant, bell pepper. The best precursors for potatoes are legumes, perennial herbs.

Fertilizers are applied to the soil during the autumn digging or in the spring, immediately before planting the potatoes.

The plant needs both organic and inorganic fertilizers. The minimum set is humus, wood ash, nitrophoska. The dosage depends on the characteristics of the soil, If the earth is clayey, heavy, per 1 square. m spend a bucket of humus or peat, 1 tbsp. wood ash, 2 tbsp. l nitrofoski. Sandy soils need regular fertilizing to improve structure, increase water retention and fertility.

Planting potatoes

Before planting, seed potatoes are prepared.The sequence of actions is as follows:

• 3-4 weeks before planting, damaged tubers are selected, transferred from storage to a warm, bright room for germination and greening (it is better to put it in 1-2 layers);
• after the sprouts have reached 2-3 cm, carry out a calibration;
• immediately before planting in the soil, large potatoes are cut into several parts so that each contains 2-3 sprouts;
• treat planting material with a compound that includes insecticides (if there is a threat of pest infection) and growth stimulants , use a solution of potassium permanganate.

Only healthy ones are suitable for landing tubers

It is recommended to plant tubers after the soil has warmed up to a temperature of 5-8 ° C to a depth of 10 cm. Failure to meet the deadlines leads to a delay in development and a significant decrease in yield (up to 20%).

Irbitsky potatoes are embedded in holes 60 cm from one another. The distance in the row is 35 cm, the depth is 8-10 cm. If the plot has not been fertilized earlier, humus and ash can be added directly to the hole. In no case should you use unripe manure.

Potato Care

The variety is unpretentious in leaving. It is enough to follow the simple rules common to this culture.

Watering

The variety tolerates drought well, but needs watering during budding, flowering and tuberization. The first watering is carried out after emergence. If there is no rain in July, early August, and the land dries up, you must definitely lower the temperature of the soil and extend the growing season with abundant watering, but the moisture in the area should not stagnate.

Watering is carried out after hilling and combine with fertilizer. It is impossible to prevent crusting, the soil must be loosened, weeds are destroyed.

A special procedure that any kind of potato needs is hilling. It is carried out at least 2 times a season to create conditions for tying tubers, better aeration. It is spudded for the first time when the plants are stretched to 15 cm. At the same time, a high earthen crest is poured up to 20 cm. The next spudding is carried out before closing the tops.

Fertilizer

Like All varieties of medium ripening time Irbit potatoes are especially in need of nutrients during the period of intensive growth of tops and the beginning of tuberization. The balance of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash fertilizers must be observed. The predominance of nitrogen will lead to a rapid increase in green mass and a decrease in the quantity and quality of the crop.

The first feeding is carried out after the first hilling. To do this, use a liquid mixture of inorganic fertilizers.In one bucket of water diluted:

• 30 g of nitrogen fertilizers;
• 30 g of potash;
• 60 g of phosphate.

It is advisable to fertilize with organic fertilizers. Effective chicken droppings. Fresh can not be used. Gardeners usually prepare slurry: they breed litter in water in a proportion of 1:15 and leave it to be fermented in a closed container for several days. The norms for using such top dressing are no more than 1 liter per bush.

You need to fertilize the plant after watering, pouring fertilizers into the wells. These nutrient mixtures should not be allowed to reach the tops.

Foliar top dressing is effective for the crop, especially at the stage of growing green mass, during flowering and tuber formation. Urea plants use urea (per 5 l of water, 100 g of urea, 150 g of potassium monophosphate, 5 g of boric acid) and phosphoric (per 10 l of water, 100 g of superphosphate) fertilizers.

You can feed it with leaf and organic fertilizers . To do this, use solutions of humates, nettle infusion, rich in trace elements. To prepare such an infusion, nettle is poured with water, left to ferment, then filtered, diluted with water. Such foliar top dressing can be carried out after 4 of this leaf is formed with an interval of 10-14 days.

Pest control

Since the variety is resistant to most diseases, the main threat to the crop is pests.The most dangerous pest, especially in the southern regions, is the Colorado potato beetle. To combat it, mechanical (collection of larvae and adult beetles) and chemical methods are used. Effective insecticides and biological products (Aktara, Bankol, Bikol, Regent, Colorado, etc.) are purchased at specialized outlets. If the number of larvae is small, you can use self-prepared herbal preparations. It can be daily infusions of wormwood, walnut leaves, celandine or decoctions of dandelions, bitter pepper.

To prevent tuber damage by the wireworm, the introduction of Bazudin granules during spring preparation of the soil will help to destroy the bear, which damages young tubers and gnaws stolons, it is necessary to introduce into the soil “Wofatox” or “Medvetox” to a depth of 2-3 cm.

Conclusion

You can dig up young potatoes in late July and early August, but if you are aiming at picking maximum crop, you must wait about the complete ripening of tubers.

To increase the yield among summer residents and gardeners, cutting tops is practiced 10-14 days before harvesting. It can be composted and used as a valuable fertilizer. Extracts from fresh or dried tops are a preparation for controlling with many pests of the garden.