Tips from an experienced gardener: 20 bushes yield 40 buckets of potatoes

How many potatoes does one bush produce? 5, 10, 15? Or can a whole bucket produce? Yes, it can!

The soil type determines the cultivation technique. In damp soil, beds are made high; in dry soil, they are lowered into the valleys. How to properly utilize fertile black soil? Apply ammonium phosphate (5 teaspoons per 5 potato plants).

Potatoes for planting should be divided with a knife so that each piece has 2-3 eyes. We'll assume 20 such pieces. Next, in ten liters of water, dissolve a tablespoon of Bordeaux mixture, half a cup of wood ash, a teaspoon of boric acid, and a drop of potassium permanganate until the mixture turns pale pink. Soak the solution for 15-30 minutes.

This composition is healing for potatoes, and boric acid prevents cavities, rotting and darkening inside the tuber.

After soaking the pieces in the prepared mixture, dry them. Mark out a spot in the bed for 20 pieces. Make holes, plant the pieces with the eyes facing up, add a little ammophos, and fill the holes with soil mounds over them.

When the tops reach 13-15 cm, tilt them slightly and cover them with soil. Then, when they've grown to the same height again, push them back and cover them with soil again.

When it was time to dig up potatoes, a regular shovel proved useless: we dug with a pitchfork, carefully working our way around the bushes. We collected two buckets of potatoes from each bush, and almost no small items were found.

We tried planting a variety similar in appearance to Karaganda, except instead of pink eyes, they had red ones, and instead of an oblong shape, they were oval. The variety has several names: Rainbow, Bora, and Pyanitsa. It's an early variety.

We bought two buckets and cut them up, but only got one or two buds per piece. We planted the plants in the same way, adding ammophos fertilizer and hilling them several times. From late May, we dug the soil throughout the summer, every five to seven days. We hilled the bushes at least four to five times. The total harvest in the first year was 16 buckets.

The following year, we tilled the soil in the fall, and in the spring, we dug it all over and planted potatoes. Watering was infrequent because no one lived at the dacha full-time. We planted the following varieties: Nevskaya, Slavyanka, Bora, Minerva, Carrera, Ogonyok, Zemlya, and Adretta. The soil was black soil with sand. We planted the varieties separately, separated by bean plants. We covered them with soil several times and added ammophos. The neighbors planted them with tillage and complained that the potatoes turned out completely "baked." But only the top one or two sprouted.

It's important to regularly weed and loosen the soil with a garden hoe or flat-top hoe. This will prevent diseases and harmful insects from damaging the harvest.