Planting time, procedure and more

Choose only suitable varieties

The numerous potato varieties are divided into early, medium and late-bearing varieties. If you want to harvest potatoes early, you should get special too New potato varieties Select.

The variety of varieties is large and requires a close look to see which of them optimally meets your own requirements. The following features will help you decide:

• Cooking properties: from waxy to floury
• Differences in crop yield
• Deviations in terms of shelf life
• taste and color peculiarities

Pre-germinate the seed potatoes

So that the harvest starts as early as possible, you should use the seed potatoes pre-germinateif you haven't already bought them pre-germinated. The pre-germination leads to strong plants that yield about a fifth more harvest.

• germinate in March
• Place the tubers in boxes with moist soil
• store at 15 to 20 degrees Celsius
• place in a cooler place after budding
• If the germ length is 3 cm or more, place it in a cooler place to harden it

Planting time

The ideal Time for planting of new potatoes lies in early spring. They are put outdoors at the end of March or April. They only need about 90 days to be ready for harvest, so that is already in June Harvest time at.

Ideal floor

Potatoes are so-called. Heavy Eater. New potatoes have to find all the nutrients they need for tuber formation in the three months of their growing season. Therefore, the bed should be planted with compost or Horn meal are supplied.

The location should also be sunny, because warmth and light are two other factors besides water that influence the harvest to our delight.

Planting instructions

New potatoes are not planted as deeply as other potato varieties, otherwise the planting process does not differ any further.

1. Clear the bed of weeds.
2. Mark the rows with a piece of string. The distance should be 30 cm.
3. Dig a hole about 2 inches deep for each potato along the string. The distance between two holes should be 30 cm.
4. Put a seed potato in each hole, the shoots should be facing up.
5. Cover the seeds loosely with soil.
6. After 2-3 weeks, the first shoots appear above the ground. Wait until they have grown to around 6 to 8 inches.
7. Pile up the potatoes and, if necessary, remove them in this process. newly grown weeds.

Care until harvest

The bed is weeded and richly enriched with nutrients. This early in the year, enough precipitation falls from the sky to supply the potato plants with water. After the digging, there is not much to do other than wait for the harvest time in June.

If a long dry period unexpectedly occurs, water can be used. Weeds should also be removed again and again, as they dispute nutrients for the potatoes.