Bellarosa potato - characteristics of the variety and peculiarities of growing

Table potatoes Bellarosa created by German breeders and successfully planted in temperate climates. It is cultivated throughout Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Eastern Europe. For the successful cultivation of root vegetables, it is important to take into account the specific features of the growth of this variety.

Bellarosa potato - characteristic

The variety of Bellarosa potato and its characteristics include the indicators for which it was valued by many gardeners:

1. Early ripeness. Collecting vegetables is made 50-60 days after planting, subging is possible already on day 45.
2. Excellent drought resistance. Root is unpretentious to moisture, it is easy to cultivate even on sites that are not equipped with artificial irrigation devices.
3. Unfavorable to the soil. Potato Bellarosa grows safely on any soil, in addition to heavy clay.
4. Excellent keeping quality. The failure rate at conservation is 93%, the harvest is kept in excellent form until May.
5. Resistance to damage. During harvesting and during transportation in good condition, 99% of root crops are retained.
6. Root crops are glazed, bulky, weighing from 200 g to 1 kg.
7. Unparalleled taste properties, friability after hot processing, starch - 13-16%.
8. Resistance to diseases - scab, black leg, spotting, late blight, nematode.

Bellarosa Potatoes - Variety Description

This root crop is easy to recognize among other types. Bellarosa potato - a brief description of the variety:

• an upright bush in height up to 75 cm;
• considerable leaves with a barely visible wave along the edge;
• small purple-lilac corollas;
• smooth, purple tubers, oval-rounded with a slight roughness;
• Colors of crumb - from straw to pudrovo-yellow.

Potatoes of Bellarosa - yield

Early potatoes Bellarosa has a stable excellent yield. On a single bush, 8-10 chopped root crops weighing up to 1.5 kg are formed. From one hectare of land it is easy to fuck in the season to three hundred and fifty centners of vegetables. The maximum productivity is 400 c / ha. In southern regions, the earlier ripening of tubers allows two crops to be harvested. In the first part of July they plan a primary collection, on the liberated area they carry out a new reserve and in the first ten days of September they receive another harvest. These high indices are not particularly dependent on the climatic environment for the cultivation of the vegetable.

Flavors of the potato of Bellarosa

The variety of table appointments, potatoes with excellent taste qualities, becomes even more delicious after storage. Suitable for frying, cooking chips and fries. Due to the average concentration of starch (15%) boiled tubers are crumbly, not solid, but do not crumble when cooked. Darkening after heat treatment is insignificant, vegetable retains an appetizing appearance. The fruit has a slightly sweet taste, which became the basic characteristic of the potato of Bellarosa.

Bellarosa potatoes - cultivation

For Bellarosa table potatoes, the cultivation technique does not differ much from the peers:

1. The site for this early variety is prepared from autumn (7 kg of compost or humus is closed on 1 m ^{2 of the} area), in the spring - they are dug.
2. Since the Bellarosa tubers are powerful, when the row spacing is 80-90 cm, the gap between the holes in the row is 30-40 cm.
3. Before cultivation, potash-phosphorus preparations ( ammonium nitrate , potassium sulfate, ammonium sulfate) fall asleep. Like all early species of Bellaria, magnesium is needed - as a feed, dolomite flour is added at the rate of 50 g per 1 m ² .
4. When planting potatoes in each hole, you need to put any potassium-phosphorous drug, for example, nitrophos (handful). After that, the tubers are laid tubers, covered with soil, the optimal depth of planting is 10 cm.
5. All further care is concluded in a couple of procedures - loosening and hilling. Podpushivanie soil helps fight weeds and favors the saturation of the roots with oxygen. Loosening is carried out at the time of active growth of bushes, when their size has not reached another 15 cm.
6. After the bushes grew above 15 cm, loosening is replaced by hilling. The essence of manipulation is in the raking of the land closer to the bush, with a specific mound around it. Hilling enhances the throughput of the soil.
7. Additionally, watering bushes is not necessary - they get quite natural precipitation.
8. An important part of the care is to reserve the make-up (after rain or watering the bushes):
9. When pecking the first sprouts, you should feed the bushes with chicken droppings.
10. Before the beginning of flowering it makes sense to fertilize potato urea or infusion of ash or potassium sulfate.
11. During flowering, the optimum make-up composition will be a mixture of superphosphate or mullein.

Preparation for planting early potatoes of Bellarosa

The variety of Bellarosa potatoes is early, so its disembarkation can be scheduled for the end of April. Prior to this, varietal root crops need to germinate a little. As for the preparation of the selected material for planting, then two weeks prior to seeding, the selected tubers should be scattered indoors or placed in a box in 1-2 layers. All remaining potatoes should be kept at daylight and at a temperature of + 15 ° C. The willingness of the tubers to plant is easy to determine - new shoots grow from its eyes.