A relatively new hybrid of domestic selection - the Lada f1 potato - despite its youth, has managed to earn the trust of many professional vegetable growers. This is a mid-season variety, ripening in 80-85 days. Lada is resistant to light frosts and can tolerate cool climates well. Potatoes are adapted to the Northwestern and Far Eastern regions.
Description of Lada potatoes
Lada f1 potatoes are a product of the Sedek company, highly marketable and extremely prolific for a northern variety. This hybrid can be grown in a greenhouse, under film, and in open beds. The potatoes in question have compact bush sizes and neat, aligned tubers. Main characteristics of the Lada f1 plant:
- The bush is small, erect, medium leafy, slightly spreading.
- The leaves of the variety are small, deep green, intermediate.
- The tubers are oval in shape, the skin is dark yellow, smooth, the eyes are small, the root weight is 120-150 g.
- The potato pulp is light yellow, dense, with a high starch content (up to 20%).
Lada can boast of excellent taste - it does not get overcooked and is perfect for soups, frying and salads.
Gornyak potato variety. History of potatoes
Gornyak potatoes have their own unique description of the variety, photos and reviews.
This information can be found in this publication. All of us are familiar with the following saying - potatoes are the second bread. Without this vegetable it is very difficult for us to imagine many different dishes. Potatoes are either the main part of any dish or eaten as a side dish. It is believed that we owe the appearance of potatoes on the Russian table to Peter the Great. But still, people in our country began to eat this vegetable only in 1839. And before this period, everyone perceived the vegetable as an ornamental crop. Juicy variety.
Around the same time, breeders began to focus on potatoes. Grachev E.A. was able to achieve great success. Thanks to his work, such a variety of potatoes appeared in Russia - like an early rose. It is still very popular among vegetable growers in our country. You can easily find it in garden plots.
Academician N.I. Vavilov played a significant role in the development of new potato varieties in Russia. This is a very famous scientist. Thanks to him, many discoveries were made in breeding science. Without exception, all varieties bred are immediately entered into the state register.
Today, the state register contains 426 types and varieties of potatoes.
The oldest type is the Lorch cultivator variety. It can be grown in 12 climatic zones of Russia. This zoning is the main feature of our large country, since each of the territories has its own parameters and weather conditions. They should definitely be taken into account when choosing a particular variety for cultivation.
Characteristics of potatoes
Description of the Gornyak variety
Miner potatoes were able to take their rightful place in the vegetable growing of our country. The characteristic has the following properties:
- The variety is mid-early. Its ripening time ranges from 65 to 80 days.
- Starch content. Is the main characteristic of potatoes. it ranges from fifteen to seventeen percent.
- The vegetable has a round shape. The average weight of one tuber ranges from one hundred to two hundred grams. But in some cases it can reach 1 kg. Basically, from one potato bush of this variety you can collect from seven to twelve tubers. The peel of the vegetable is yellowish in color, the flesh has a light yellow tint.
- Good yield of the variety. From 1 hectare you can harvest from 170 to 270 centners of potato crop. The biggest record was recorded. it amounted to 465 centners.
- Potatoes of the Gornyak variety have excellent qualities for the consumer: wonderful rich taste. This feature of the vegetable allows it to be used in cooking. It is mainly boiled or fried. In this case, the taste of potatoes only gets better.
- The ability of the variety to be stored for a long time. The shelf life level is 98 percent. This variety is used in cooking. But due to the high starch content in tubers, potatoes can be used in the chemical industry and pharmaceuticals. We recommend growing this variety in the Ural and Volga-Vyatka regions. In this case, high yields of potatoes of this variety are noted in other climatic zones of Russia. this, in turn, allows us to say about excellent adaptation to the harsh climatic conditions of our country.
Advantages and disadvantages
Most gardeners give the variety positive characteristics, noting its productivity, endurance and unpretentiousness. The most important advantages that Lada demonstrates:
- high yield - with high-quality fertilizing you can get from 350 to 550 c/ha;
- resistance to harsh climatic conditions - potatoes will not die due to minor frosts and temperature changes;
- excellent marketability - the share of full-fledged marketable tubers in the variety's harvest is 95-96%;
- Excellent keeping quality - potatoes can last almost until the next harvest without serious losses.
Lada did not find any serious shortcomings. However, it is worth paying attention to the following negative qualities:
- vulnerability to parasites – potatoes will require thorough prevention against insect pests;
- high moisture requirement - plantings of the variety require frequent watering and tolerate drought very poorly, unlike heat-resistant potatoes such as Minerva.
Lada f1 is capable of growing in shaded areas, but is very sensitive to heat - in particularly hot summers the variety will have to be additionally protected from the scorching sun by hilling.
Description and characteristics of the variety
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Lada F1 is an early ripening potato, the ripening period is mid-early - 75-90 days from planting. The hybrid is not afraid of drought or sudden drops in temperature. The vegetable is suitable for cultivation in the middle zone, in the Far Eastern and Northwestern regions.
The hybrid variety is produced by Sedek; these potatoes have remarkable commercial, consumer, and taste qualities.
What are the features of tubers:
- average weight 106-158 g;
- starchiness 14-20.8%;
- peel color is yellow;
- round-oval shape;
- the skin is smooth;
- the pulp is yellow when cut (sometimes light yellowish);
- the eyes are small (up to 1-2 mm).
Tubers are widely used in culinary recipes - for purees, baked and fried dishes, for boiling. Cookability is good.
Landing rules
The variety in question, according to its characteristics, belongs to the north, therefore it prefers nutritious, but not too crumbly, light loamy and chernozem soils. Lada feels best on the plain, in a place protected from winds and drafts.
Soil preparation
The soil for potatoes begins to be prepared in mid-September. The area where Lada f1 will grow is dug up deeply, replacing the top layer, weeded and parasites removed. The last stage of autumn preparation is fertilizing the soil for Lada potatoes with peat, or mullein. In the spring, 4-5 days before adding potatoes, the soil is again loosened with a shovel, treated to remove weeds and pest larvae, and the soil for the variety is fed with humus or chicken droppings.
Landing Features
Potato seedlings are planted in early April. Lada is germinated in wooden boxes for 35-40 days, after which the variety is introduced into the garden at the end of April - early May. Before transplanting, it is worth treating the seedlings with a solution of manganese or copper sulfate. The soil for planting potatoes should be warmed to 13°-15°. The ideal distance between the bushes of this potato is 35 cm. At the same time, Lada requires a row spacing of 60 to 65 cm.
Care: watering, loosening and weeding
For good growth, Lada needs frequent watering - once every 3 days, during dry periods - once every 2 days. Water the potatoes using the drip method at sunset with lukewarm water. Loosening is carried out simultaneously with watering. The variety requires digging to a depth of 15 cm to prevent the formation of an airtight film on the ground.
The variety is hilled 3-4 times per season, during the period of active growth, before flowering. Lada is sprinkled with earth, according to the characteristics, to a depth of 20 cm. Hilling up is especially important during cold weather and, on the contrary, too high temperatures. Potatoes are weeded every week, and all weeds are removed completely so that not a single root remains.
Top dressing
Lada requires feeding three times a season. Fertilizers are applied to potatoes according to the following scheme:
- The first time - during the period of active growth - a solution of urea, or ammonium nitrate, is added.
- The second time - at the very beginning of flowering - the variety is fed with chicken droppings or humus.
- The last time the potatoes are fertilized is at the end of flowering - superphosphate, or potassium salt, is added to the beds.
Additionally, the row spacing of the Lada hybrid can be mulched with rotted sawdust.
Diseases and parasites: treatment and prevention
The presented potatoes have a fairly high immunity to bacterial and viral diseases. However, Lada is vulnerable to fungi and insect pests. To avoid problems, the seed material of the variety is treated with fungicides or treated with a saline solution before planting.
Blackleg
The disease infects potatoes during warm and rainy summers. The disease can be detected by darkening and rotting of the root part of the variety's stem. To cure Lada from blackleg, the beds are sprayed with a solution of milk and iodine. If the fungus is very widespread, potatoes are treated with Fitosporin or Topsin. Affected bushes of the variety are pulled out and burned.
Rhizoctoniosis
This most dangerous disease attacks potatoes in stuffy greenhouses, or when plantings are thickened. Often occurs already at the storage stage. According to the characteristics, rhizoctoniosis manifests itself as dark rotting spots on tubers of the Lada variety. Only strong drugs can save you from black scab - Emesto Quantum, Maxim, Prestige. They are used to treat potatoes before storing them in the cellar, or Lada seed tubers before planting.
Chafer
A danger to potatoes is a beetle larva called Khrushchev. They eat the roots and young tubers of the variety. Spraying with an infusion of onion peels or mulching with pine sawdust helps against these parasites. If Lada is heavily populated with Khrushchi, the beds are treated with Bazudin or Medvetox. It is also good to place a birdhouse next to the plantings - the birds will save the potatoes from pest beetles.
Potato selection criteria
The elite varieties of Belarusian selection of various ripening periods are on sale. When purchasing, take into account that potatoes prefer a temperate climate, fertile soil, and regular watering. Even the best varieties, according to reviews, will not show their qualities and high yield parameters and resistance to infections if agricultural technology is violated.
- timing of harvesting and ripening of tubers. In risky farming zones (Urals, Siberia, North-West of the Russian Federation), it is recommended to cultivate early and mid-ripening varieties; late-ripening varieties are also suitable for the middle zone and southern regions;
- purpose (table or technical grades);
- for food or storage. Early ripening potatoes are unsuitable for long-term storage; they are grown for consumption in summer and autumn. Mid-ripening and late-season potatoes are dug up later and stored for storage and consumption in winter and spring;
- starch content indicators. Sometimes they don’t pay attention to this information, and then they complain that potatoes are not suitable for frying or mashing. High-starch potatoes are suitable for boiling and mashing, but varieties with a low starch content retain their shape better and are therefore used for frying, soups, and salads;
- resistance to temperature changes;
- resistance to late blight, other diseases, and pests.
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Harvesting and storage
Potatoes are harvested in mid-August, but you can start digging from the first days of the month. Before harvesting (7-8 days before), the tops of the potatoes are mowed down. After digging, the Lada tubers are laid out for 2-3 days in the sun to dry, and covered with film at night. According to the characteristics, the variety is stored in a cool, well-ventilated and shaded place, so that the potatoes scatter freely and the tubers do not press on each other.
Features of cultivation
Like most potato varieties, Ladoshka prefers light, fertile soils based on black soil or sand. Heavy, moisture-retaining loams significantly reduce yields. Before planting, humus and wood ash are laid out in the holes.
Undamaged medium-sized tubers are selected for planting. Potatoes are pre-treated with a growth stimulant; dressing is possible.
After drying, the tubers are germinated in the open air or in damp sawdust. The bushes are planted at a distance of 30-35 cm from each other. Row spacing should be wide, making it easier to care for plants.
To maintain normal moisture levels and prevent weeds, row spaces can be mulched with straw, sawdust or grass clippings.
You need to water the potatoes as the top layer of soil dries. During the season, watering is carried out 2-3 times, soaking the soil by 40-50 cm.
It is possible to organize drip irrigation. A one-time feeding with an aqueous solution of mullein or bird droppings is recommended. Before digging, all the tops are cut off, this allows the tubers to grow and accumulate a maximum of useful substances.
After digging, the potatoes are sorted and dried at the edge or under a canopy. Seed material is stored separately. To select the most promising potatoes for planting, strong, disease-free bushes are marked in advance with ribbons or tape.
Full timely care during the growing period contributes to a good harvest. Spraying with special preparations can help with this.
Read in detail about the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.
