Which potato variety to choose
When choosing potatoes, you may find that Dutch ones are considered the best. In general, foreign varieties grown on the basis of hormones and suspicious fertilizers, prohibited as carriers of GMOs, have many advantages. But domestic varieties are still considered competitive. Which varieties are the most popular?
- Zhukovsky early - its ripening time is 70-80 days. This variety is loved for its plasticity. It also has good yields. Even low temperatures won't bother him. It also has some of the best taste;
- Spring white is also an early ripening plant. This variety is a table variety and has high marketability. Potatoes have beautiful white tubers. The variety is considered tasty;
- Timo Hankkiyan has a good marketable mass of tuber. This variety was imported from Finland. All types of soil are suitable for cultivation. The tubers are round in shape, white, with good taste. Its shoots are friendly and strong. The variety is suitable when it is to be grown in drought;
- Udacha is another early ripening variety. He is very popular. You can get a large number of fruits. The first commercial harvest is obtained in June;
- Povin is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. A very popular variety. The peel is red, the tubers are round, medium in size;
- Borodyansky pink is a mid-early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are round, medium size;
- Dnepryanka is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is yellow, the tubers are round and large;
- Lugovskoy is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are oval, large;
- Tiras is an early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the eye stands out bright red, the tubers are oval, large;
- Slavyanka is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is red, the tubers are round and large;
- Fantasia is a mid-season variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is pink, the tubers are oval, large;
- Shchedryk is a mid-early variety of Ukrainian selection. The peel is yellow, the eye stands out bright red, the tubers are oval and large.
Potato varieties: medium and late
Here is a description of potato varieties of medium and late ripening.
"Sante." The tubers are large, yellow, oval, weighing about 100 g. The eyes are small, numerous, the flesh is light yellow.
Ripening period is 80-90 days. Excellent taste. Good keeping quality. Productivity is high. High resistance to various diseases: late blight, potato cancer and nematodes, practically not susceptible, moderately resistant to scab, less resistant to rhizoctonia.
"Zekura." The tubers are oblong in shape with a yellow smooth skin, weighing 120-150 g. The eyes are small, the flesh is yellow.
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Ripening period is 80-90 days. Excellent taste. Good shelf life. Productivity is high.
Resistant to cancer and potato nematode. Weakly susceptible to leaf curl virus, late blight of leaves and tubers.
"Albatross". The tubers are oval-shaped, weighing 70-100 g, the peel is rough, yellow. The eyes are small, the flesh is yellow. Ripening period is 90-110 days.
Good taste. Good shelf life. Productivity is high. Resistant to the causative agent of potato cancer, golden potato cyst nematode. Moderately susceptible to late blight.
"Kolobok" The tubers are round in shape, the skin is slightly rough, yellow, weighing 90-120g. The eyes are medium to deep, the flesh is yellow.
Ripening time is about 90-110 days. Good taste. Excellent shelf life. Productivity is high. Resistant to the pathogen of potato cancer, susceptible to golden potato cyst nematode.
Brief tips on agricultural technology
When selecting a potato variety for planting, it is necessary to study the various growing conditions and soil characteristics in Ukraine. Based on this, it will be easier to choose the variety you are interested in. Pay attention to studying agricultural cultivation techniques, become familiar with moisture conservation techniques such as loosening and mulching potatoes, look at planting patterns and drip irrigation.
In addition, it is advisable to take note of compliance with crop rotation requirements, otherwise the soil will be depleted and diseases and pests that are dangerous for nightshades will accumulate in it. Green manure will help restore the soil.
Mid-late varieties
"Desiree"
A drought-resistant, high-yielding potato variety that is resistant to mechanical damage to the root crop. Homeland - Holland.
Tubers are red in color, the middle is a pleasant yellow color. It has an excellent taste and high starch content - 21.5%.
Good fertility, allows you to collect more than 500 c/ha at the end of the growing season.
It is stored for a long time and does not spoil. Transportable. Resistant to common diseases and pests.
"Kuroda"
Another potato variety bred in Holland. It does not darken after cooking and retains its taste for a long time.
The pulp is tasty, yellow in color. The tuber itself is medium-sized, elongated-oval, red in color. You can collect up to 10 tubers from a bush, and more than 600 centners from a hectare.
High starch content – 21%.
The variety is sensitive to mechanical damage and has a shallow burial depth.
The preservation of root crops is excellent and easy to transport. Resistant to many diseases that are inherent in potatoes.
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Characteristics
Let’s touch a little on the characteristics of potatoes based on their ripening time. Potatoes of early varieties, although they produce less yield, due to their early ripening, provide early vitamins and nutrition. Often, gardeners choose early potato varieties because they tolerate dry times well and have time to gain weight. Proper collection and timely removal of tops will protect potato tubers from late blight. Many of them are well kept.
Mid-season varieties are more often susceptible to fungal diseases, and therefore require more care (regular spraying, pruning of affected tops). But you can select such high-yielding varieties that you will provide yourself and all your relatives with wonderful potatoes until the beginning of summer.
Late varieties are also demanding of care; usually these potatoes are harvested before the end of September. They are not recommended to be planted in the south, since the plants suffer greatly from drought and when the heat sets in, they try to withstand a dormant period without growing tubers. Depending on the variety, the yield is high; tubers are subject to long-term storage.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- excellent taste of mature tubers;
- good yield;
- early amicable maturation;
- resistance to dangerous diseases;
- tolerance to heat and drought;
- unpretentiousness;
- The harvested crop is well stored.
Disadvantages include to frost . The thin peel is damaged by inaccurate mechanical digging, which places special demands on harvesting.
Flesh colors
Naturally, if you are deciding for the first time which variety of potatoes to choose for planting, you need to look at a lot of photos and read the descriptions. Perhaps you will choose a variety with colored pulp that is new to our latitudes. In the West and the American continent, they love varieties with pulp of cranberry, beet, blue, purple, and so on.
Our consciousness is still familiar with the creamy, yellow and occasionally pinkish colors of the pulp. Perhaps this is temporary. After all, the colored pulp contains many useful substances.
We looked at several varieties. There are many more of them. Famous Dutch Condor, Picasso, Courage, Romano, Carrera and Sante, which taste good and last a long time. Dutch early Ariel, Riviera, Prior, Red Scarlett, Estima manage to produce a magnificent harvest before being affected by late blight. Remember that an accurate conclusion can only be drawn from experience, multiplied by the desire to get results. You can only understand which varieties of potatoes in the photo are better through practice.
The history of the origin of the Ladoshka potato variety
“Ladoshka” is the popular name of the variety.
The variety is not officially registered in the Russian register.
Nevertheless, it is grown on personal plots and on farms.
The table shows data on the growing season of different potato varieties:
Name | Variety | Days |
Nikulinsky | Late ripening | 115-120 |
Cardinal | Late ripening | 110-120 |
Rocco | Late ripening | 100-115 |
Kiwi | Late ripening | 120-130 |
Ivan da Marya | Late ripening | 115-130 |
Slav | Late ripening | From 125 to 140 |
Borovichok | Early ripening | 70-90 |
Elmundo | Early ripening | 70-80 |
Felox | Early ripening | From 65 to 70 |
Bellarosa | Early ripening | From 50 to 70 |
Natasha | Early ripening | From 70 to 80 |
Karatop | Extra early | From 60 to 65 |
Riviera | Extra early | From 40 to 80 |
Zhukovsky early | Extra early | 60 to 70 |
Farmer | Extra early | From 50 to 60 |
Minerva | Extra early | 45-50 |
Crane | Mid-late | From 100 to 120 |
Sorcerer | Mid-late | 80-90 |
Mozart | Mid-late | From 100 to 180 |
Ramona | Mid-late | From 80 to 100 |
Limonka or Picasso | Mid-late | 120-130 |
Yanka | Mid-early | 90-100 |
Giant | Mid-early | From 80 to 100 |
Tuscany | Mid-early | 70-90 |
Purple Haze | Mid-early | 90-100 |
Openwork | Mid-early | 75-85 |
Russian potato varieties of old selection
They can only be found on private plots. They are poorly stored, get sick a lot, and are not productive every year, but gardeners grow them for their taste and early ripening.
Zhukovsky: description of the variety, photo
Very early variety - 60-65 days. When planting in May, you can dig as early as July. Zhukovsky is the first to produce new potatoes in the season. It is not worth keeping it in the ground, as the taste will deteriorate. Although he's not great anyway.
Zhukovsky's stolons spread out to the sides and form a crop, including between the rows. The tubers are oval, pink, with small eyes. The flesh is white, and the flesh of young potatoes is watery.
Even with prolonged cooking, the potatoes do not crumble. Good for salads, such as Winter. In damp soil, tubers are affected by late blight and rot.
Potatoes Zhukovsky
Zhukovsky is zoned for all regions except Eastern Siberia and the North-West. A gardener from the Penza region left a good review about it. This is her earliest potato, but not the main one and not the only one; she grows several more varieties.
Potatoes Sineglazka
An ancient variety, domestic selection, bred in the post-war years. It is especially widespread in the center of the Russian Federation and to the south. The tubers are round and oval, with purple or lilac eyes.
Potatoes Sineglazka
These are early potatoes - 70-90 days. The bushes are strong, the flowers are small, light blue. The taste is excellent. People believe that it is from this variety that the most delicious puree is obtained.
Potatoes Sineglazka in section
But Sineglazka is not included in the State Register, is recognized as unpromising and is allowed for cultivation only on amateur plots. And all because of poor keeping quality in winter, the tubers rot.
Another disadvantage from gardeners: there are few potatoes on the bush, even in a good year they can grow small, and in the rainy summer they rot in the field. But for the sake of taste and for summer consumption, you can plant a couple of rows.
Description of the variety
Roots:
- Large tubers;
- Oval or oval-round, slightly flattened;
- The peel is white or cream-colored;
- The eyes are superficially recessed, light pink in color;
- With white or creamy pulp;
- Starch content from 12 to 15%;
- The average weight varies from 180 to 250 grams.
Selecting potato varieties:
Bushes:
- The plant is erect or semi-erect, intermediate type;
- The bushes are medium-sized, moderately spreading, with an average formation of green mass;
- Dense leaves of a dark green color, medium-sized, slightly wavy edges and clearly defined veins;
- The flowers are white or pale pink, have a brightly colored core, and form compact corollas;
- Early falling flowers;
- Rare formation of berries or its complete absence;
- The plant has a well-developed root system.
Characteristics of "Laptya"
Potato Lapot is a mid-early table variety. It stands out from other varieties due to its productivity indicators and incredibly large tubers.
It has the following characteristics:
- Tubers ripen 65-80 days after planting. The ripening period occurs in the second half of August/September (depending on the growing region).
- The bush is tall. The tops grow up to 60 cm.
- The bushes are spreading, the stems are intensively covered with leaves.
- The leaves are medium sized, light green in color.
- Lapot blooms with large white flowers. Flowering is abundant.
- The tubers are oblong in shape with flattened sides. Externally, potatoes look like old village bast shoes, which is where its name comes from.
- The shell is colored pink, the flesh is cream-colored.
- The percentage of starch in tubers is low, ranging from 12-14%.
- The eyes are superficial, few in number, and small in size.
- On average, one bush produces up to 8 large potatoes.
- The mass of tubers is usually 100-150 g. But there are specimens weighing 500 and even 600 g.
- The productivity of Laptya is phenomenal. From 1 hectare of plantings you can easily collect up to 500 centners.
- Root vegetables are universal, suitable for frying, boiling, and making purees.
- Keeping quality up to 94%. These are good indicators for mid-early potatoes.
- Lapota is not afraid of sudden climatic changes and responds adequately to short-term droughts, frosts and rains.
- The variety is not picky about the type of soil, but it is desirable that it be light, nutritious soil.
- The main weakness of the variety is weak immunity. The variety is often affected by Alternaria and late blight. It may also suffer from other fungal diseases.
Peculiarities
Characteristic features include:
- Mid-early ripening. The growing season ranges from 65 to 80 days;
- Productivity up to 450 centners per hectare;
- Frost intolerance;
- Cultivation on heavy clay soils and constant stagnation of water contributes to a significant reduction in yield;
- The seed material does not degenerate; it is allowed to plant tubers whole or in parts with sprouts.
Correct fit
Basic rules for planting the Ladoshka variety:
- Medium-sized specimens without damage are selected as planting material. Pre-planting treatment of seed material with growth stimulants is carried out; it can be treated. Dried tubers are left to germinate in the open air or in damp sawdust;
- Give preference to light, fertile soils with black soil or sand;
- The timing of planting is determined by the climatic conditions of the growing region (late April - mid-May);
- A mixture of humus and wood ash is added to the planting holes;
- The distance between the bushes is from 30 to 35 cm. Leave the row spacing wide to facilitate further care of the plantings.
How to care for plantings:
- Carry out two or three hillings, forming high ridges;
- Mulching is effective in controlling weeds;
- Watering should be carried out as soon as the top layer of soil begins to dry out. During the season, two or three waterings are carried out so that the soil is soaked 40-50 cm deep;
- Fertilizing is not necessary, but prefer organic fertilizers: humus, diluted mullein, compost.
Diseases and pests
Potatoes of the “Ladoshka” variety do not affect:
- Potato cancer;
- Golden cyst nematode;
- A variety of viruses and rots: fusarium, alternaria, verticillium, scab.
Due to early ripening, tubers and leaves are not susceptible to late blight.
Necessary preventive measures:
- Maintaining crop rotation. During the rest period, the plots are sown with phacelia or oilseed radish. It is good to plant potatoes after legumes, cabbage, carrots or meadow grasses;
- Juicy young potato tops serve as bait for the Colorado potato beetle, spider mites, cicadas, and aphids. In severe cases of damage, industrial insecticides are used. Non-toxic biological products will serve as their replacement;
- Plantings can be protected by timely weeding and mulching;
- To prevent wireworms, it is effective to treat the tubers and water the soil before planting using disinfectant solutions.
Reviews about the variety
Ladoshka potatoes have a pleasant rich taste, without excessive dryness or wateriness. Despite the length of cooking, the tubers do not lose their shape. The variety is versatile: it can be boiled, fried, stewed, baked and stuffed. Tubers are suitable for making delicious puree. The pulp does not darken when cut and cooked.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with potato varieties that have different ripening periods:
Potatoes of the “Ladoshka” variety are popular due to their ease of care and high yields. It has excellent keeping quality, the seed material is not subject to degeneration, the variety is grown both for sale and for personal use.
In northern regions with short, hot summers, special varieties are needed to obtain a good potato harvest. Lapot potatoes are considered the best for these purposes. It is also called Sibirka, or Siberian Lapot. It is distinguished by its high yield and fast ripening period, as well as its unpretentiousness.
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We also bring to your attention other potato varieties with different ripening periods:
Late ripening | Mid-early | Mid-late | ||||||
Picasso | Black Prince | Blue | ||||||
Ivan da Marya | Nevsky | Lorch | ||||||
Rocco | Dark-skinned girl | Rowanushka | ||||||
Slav | Lord of the Expanses | Nevsky | ||||||
Kiwi | Ramos | Courage | ||||||
Cardinal | Taisiya | Beauty | ||||||
Asterix | Lapot | Milady | ||||||
Nikulinsky | Caprice | Vector | Dolphin | Svitanok Kyiv | Mistress | Sifra | Jelly | Ramona |
History and description of the Lapot variety
It is unknown when and where the Lapot potato was bred. This is an early Russian variety that gained popularity at the end of the twentieth century. In pursuit of foreign varieties, unfortunately, it is rare to find gardeners who still grow it. However, there are those who remain faithful to this large-fruited early variety.
Potato tubers Light pink or gray-pink color
There is an opinion that the Lapot variety is the result of many years of “folk selection” based on the Ermak potato variety. You won’t wear Laptya varieties in the State Register.
The variety got its fancy name because of the shape of the tuber, which resembles a bast shoe both in size and appearance. This is one of the highest yielding varieties in the world. One medium potato produces up to 10 large tubers per hole, with an average weight of 200 grams. The yield is 500 centners per hectare. Harvest dates are mid-August or early September - potatoes are early-ripening varieties.
The ground part of the variety is medium-sized erect bushes, which at the time of flowering are covered with white flowers - a sign of active tuberization.
Young above-ground parts of potatoes are medium-sized erect bushes
The fruits are covered with light pink or gray-pink skin. The pulp is light cream in color with an average starch content (10–12%), pleasant to the taste, and softens when cooked.
The appearance of flowers is a sign of the beginning of tuberization
Table: advantages and disadvantages of the variety
Advantages | Flaws |
Large tubers of excellent taste | Low resistance to late blight |
Low soil quality requirements | Often affected by wireworms |
Tolerates light night frosts and drought | |
Resistant to many diseases |
Lada potato variety description. Potatoes from seeds.
I’ll start from the beginning, last year I became interested in what potato seeds are for. After all, we propagate potatoes by tubers. And why there is a decline in yield. And I read that potatoes tend to degenerate and need to be “turned over” to their original state. Seeds are used for these purposes. Which appear after potatoes bloom in place of flowers. I searched on the net and read. That these seeds are planted and from them the so-called planting potatoes appear. Free from diseases and other ailments. Without thinking twice, I decided to order Lada F1 potato seeds on the Internet. According to different characteristics. High yield for all regions. I ordered 20 packets of seeds. And bought another 10 packets locally. I sowed them in early April and began to grow seedlings. From 500 seeds (25 seeds in each bag), 30 sprouted! From the purchased ones more than one in place) I planted them on the site and began to wait. Hilling up and periodically fielding. These seedlings turned out to have 6 varieties of potatoes. Instead of one Lada. 5 varieties slowly died, but one bloomed, grew and expanded. This bush reached . me 1 meter! He gave me 6 berries with seeds. And he decided to end his life’s journey. He dried up. And so I decided to dig him up. The result is 35 potatoes in the bush, total weight 2 kg 200 grams. Where are 2 kg of large potatoes. And 200 grams of little things that are not worth talking about. That is, the first stage of the experiment was justified. Since I read that one bush should contain 1.5-1.9 kg of potatoes. Stage 2 remains. According to the description, from planting 1 potato, exactly as many potatoes should grow as there were in the planting potato bush. That is, in my case, 35 potatoes weighing 250-300 grams. This year I also collected seeds from my potatoes. This year I also planted the seeds directly into the ground, just for fun. They sprouted and bloomed. Now the “berries” are filling. Also, whoever decides to do this in the same way, do not forget that potatoes must be selected for your region. And in this case, it is better to take seeds from your own potatoes. But you can also order them on the Internet. Only in this case, do not be upset if you do not have all the seedlings will survive and give a normal result. Since it’s unknown what varieties are being shoved there. Next year I want to try to “knock over” strawberries this way. I collected the seeds.
Planting and care
When the soil warms up to 6–8 degrees Celsius, you can begin planting.
Selecting a location, preparing soil and planting material
The main requirement for the place is good lighting. The soil does not require special preparation, but the variety prefers light soil diluted with sand.
Site preparation has a positive effect on yields. In the fall, the land is planted with green manure herbs, for example, mustard (which the wireworm cannot tolerate) or oilseed radish.
Preparing the material for planting begins with warming up the tubers, which are taken out of storage and placed in boxes with good ventilation in a room where the temperature is more than 15 degrees. Before planting tubers for germination, you need to make sure that they are healthy and free of mechanical damage or rot. The optimal time for germination is April .
Tubers for planting should weigh from 30 to 90 grams
Boarding pattern and time
Before planting, the area must be dug up. The variety is responsive to the addition of humus or old manure to the soil. Planting time is early or mid-May. By this period the soil has warmed up sufficiently.
Laptya tubers are wide and large. This nuance must be taken into account before landing. It is better to place planting tubers at a distance of 50 cm from each other, and leave 70 cm between rows .
You can also add one bean to each well. These 2 crops are good neighbors, in addition, beans saturate the soil with nitrogen, which is so necessary for the successful development of the plant.
Potato planting pattern - 50 cm between tubers, 70 cm between rows
Watering, loosening, fertilizing
The Lapot variety tolerates drought well, but regular watering can increase the yield several times. This should only be done in the early morning or evening. As a rule, potatoes are watered several times a season:
- 2 weeks after emergence.
- When buds appear.
- When the tubers gain mass.
It is not advisable to water potatoes over the bush, since this can cause the appearance of late blight, to which the variety is so susceptible. Watering is carried out along the rows closer to the bush.
Systematized watering of potatoes between rows helps to avoid late blight
Loosening is the saturation of the soil with oxygen. There is not a single plant that would react badly to loosening. After heavy rains, it is especially important to loosen the soil, since a crust forms on it, which prevents the plant from being properly nourished.
The Lapot variety does not really need fertilizing, since it shows a high yield even without it. As a top dressing, instead of watering, you can use mullein diluted in water in a ratio of 1:15 or herbal infusion - grass drenched in water and left for several days to ferment. Lapota should be fed no more than 3 times during the entire season: during the period of emergence, when the first flower appears and during mass flowering.
Mid-season varieties
"Sante"
A variety respected by many gardeners because it gives good yield results and is intended for table use. Suitable for making chips and French fries.
The bushes are small, one might say medium, and have a compact structure. The foliage is densely developed. The flowers are moderate, white in color.
The root crop is large, oval in shape. Yellow, smooth peel, strewn with small eyes. The taste is at the highest level, the starch content is only 11%.
The fertility of this variety allows you to collect as many as 500 centners of potatoes from one hectare plot.
Resistance to nematodes, late blight, fusarium, and cancer.
"Picasso"
A prolific intensive variety that is not indifferent to fertilizer, but does not require frequent watering. Bred by Dutch breeders.
A distinctive feature of such potatoes is the color of the tubers - they are white with reddish spots. As for the pulp, it is cream-colored. Quite tasty and homogeneous.
Good yield level - up to 570 c/ha at the end of the growing season. The weight of each potato is from 100 to 120 grams. There are an average of 17 tubers per bush.
High starch content - 18%.
It is resistant to viruses, scab, fusarosis and cancer diseases.
Solving growing problems
One of the most important advantages of the Lapot variety is its resistance to many diseases and pest damage. Nevertheless, he also has his enemies. The Colorado potato beetle destroys the above-ground part of the plant. The fight against it consists of regularly collecting larvae, egg-laying eggs and adults, or spraying with special insecticides according to the instructions. For small plantings, regular collection of pests 2 times a week completely solves the problem of the Colorado potato beetle without the use of chemicals.
Wireworms are much more difficult to deal with. This is the larva of a click beetle that loves to feed on any juicy root vegetables or weed roots. The wireworm does not tolerate mustard, therefore, if the area is heavily infested with it, you can sow mustard between the rows, which will cope with the task and significantly reduce the number of wireworms in the area.
The Lapot variety often suffers from late blight, which appears after heavy rains or excessive watering. But the main reason is soil contamination. Phytophthora fungi do not make themselves felt until favorable conditions are created for their development. If the soil is infected with late blight, you need to do prevention: spray the potatoes leaf by leaf with 1% Bordeaux mixture. Treatment is carried out every 2–3 weeks. If it rains, spraying must be repeated.
Photo gallery: problems typical for the variety
Video: fighting late blight without chemicals
Harvest and storage
Harvesting begins when the tops begin to turn yellow and wither - this is a sign of ripeness of the fruit. Dig up potatoes with a pitchfork to avoid damage to the tubers, retreating 30 cm from the bush.
With fertile, loose soil, you can do without digging, but simply rake the soil with your hands, since the tubers of the variety are almost on the surface.
Then the tubers are sorted by size, the damaged ones are set aside, dried for a day under a canopy and transferred to a permanent storage location, where they are poured into special boxes.
Video: how to properly harvest potatoes
Potatoes of the Lapot variety are suitable for preparing dishes using various heat treatment methods: baking, frying, boiling. It always makes good dishes with a rich taste.
Boiled potatoes with herbs - a delicious side dish for meat or fish
Reviews from gardeners about the variety
The shape of the tuber is round-oval, the eyes are small, the skin color is pink, the flesh is white. An early ripening variety, recommended for cultivation in the West Siberian region. The weight of a marketable tuber is on average 90–115 g. Starch content is 10–12%. Taste and keeping quality are good. The variety is not resistant to cancer and is moderately affected by common scab, fungal, bacterial and viral diseases. Susceptible to late blight. Responsive to fertilizers and irrigation. The value of the variety is its taste, preservation, and heat resistance.
Alexander Lukshin
https://sadisibiri.ru/kartofel-sort-viden.html
I would like to mention a variety of potatoes called “Lapot”, not just big ones - giant tubers! When we planted it for the first time, we couldn’t believe our eyes when harvesting, a few tubers - a full bucket! And this is on soil that has not been fertilized, what will happen if the soil is manured before planting potatoes?
Root
https://forum.rmnt.ru/threads/kartofel.71756
These are flat, oblong tubers, usually large in size. The color of the tubers is pale pink. Since I am of the opinion that several varieties should be grown per season, the Lapot variety, at least in our Trans-Baikal Territory, should always be present. It may be fashionable to grow Dutch varieties, but this variety does not fail in obtaining a good harvest almost every year.
tanya
https://tanynadacha.ru/secrets/zabaykalskiy-kray/chempion-potomu-chto-lapot
Despite the fact that the emerging potatoes were hit by spring frost and heavy hail, later more favorable weather conditions developed for normal development and harvest. When planting potato tubers with sprouts down on a control bed of one Lapot variety, I did not notice any special effect on the increase in yield; germination was longer than usual by 7–10 days.
Alexey Vdovin
https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/4545158/post311743902
Lapot is an old, proven potato variety, distinguished by its good yield and excellent taste. This is one of the few varieties that can withstand short-term frosts and drought. It is rarely affected by disease, but is susceptible to late blight. The tubers are well preserved until the next harvest and can withstand transportation without loss of commercial quality.
- Author: Maria Sukhorukikh
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The best potato varieties for Siberia
Siberia has a sharply continental climate with short summers. Here spring frosts last a long time and even in the warm season there are heavy rains.
Adretta
The high-yielding variety grows and develops quickly. Due to early tuberization, it produces a stable yield, but does not tolerate dry soils and variable humidity.
Alyona
The early variety is suitable for mechanized harvesting and ripens almost simultaneously. It is resistant to drought and most potato diseases.
Zekura
The variety produces a stable and powerful harvest even in the short Siberian summer. He loves regular watering, weeding and loosening the soil, and is not afraid of soil with high humidity.
Kamensky
The early table variety produces a generous harvest of smooth and beautiful tubers with excellent presentation. It needs loosening the soil and fertilizers, but is resistant to the Colorado potato beetle.
Lugovsky
The variety can be grown in almost any climatic conditions. Its flesh does not darken and has a pleasant texture, so these potatoes are especially good for mashed potatoes.