When planting, they make narrow ridges and wide aisles, and also very carefully take care of the ridges, water them daily, apply fertilizers, mulch, but do not spud the bushes. But it is also very important to choose a well-lit area so that the plants do not accumulate nitrates. Consider the rules of planting potatoes according to Mitlayder.
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The general essence of planting and growing according to Mitlayder
The essence of growing by this method - digging up narrow beds, 9 m long and 45 cm wide and wide inter-row spacing of 0.7-1 m. But still planted potatoes need to be fertilized, watered and plucked weeds. It is necessary that the soil was not dry.
Feedback on the method
Alexandra Ilyinichna, Chernihiv region
«I have a small piece of land for landings, because of this, Mltlider's method has helped a lot.»
Advantages of the method
- If you plant potatoes according to the method of Mltlider, then no need to loosen the ground and spud the beds.
- Very strong savings in land area occupied by plantings. In addition, the yield increases simultaneously.
Disadvantages of the method
- Not all places are suitable. for planting potatoes using this technology, the areas located on the northern slopes, swampy, lowland, are not suitableplaces with peat where there may be stagnation of water.
- You will need to buy a large amount of fertilizer and spend a lot of money.
- The main thing when landing - choose a place well lit by the sun, in the shade the number of harvested vegetables will decrease by 3-4 times. And the potato itself will contain a large amount of nitrates.
The advantages of narrow beds
Narrow beds and wide aisles provide the potato with good lighting, so it is actively growing, it favorably affects the yield.
How to plant
Potato preparation
First selected large, healthy tubers, small tuber crops are not suitable for planting.
You can plant potatoes in the beds on the garden plot, or in the boxes at home, and then transplanted.
Preparation of tubers before planting the beds
- follows put in waterhaving a temperature of + 50-60 ° C for a quarter of an hour;
- after put them for 5-10 minutes. in solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate;
- spread out tubers in one layer in shallow boxes and put it in the sunlight;
- once a week, sprinkle with a solution of superphosphate and water;
- after the appearance of the eyes on the tubers, their cut into several piecesso that each part has a sprouted eye.
Seedling preparation
Fill the sawdust with a layer of 3 cm at the bottom of the boxes. Spill sawdust with 0.2% solution of blue vitriol. Put the potatoes right next to each other. Sprinkle them on top with sawdust with a layer of 1-1.5 cm.
Place the boxes in a room with a temperature of + 12-14 ° C. In a week, stubby but short sprouts and small roots will grow on the potatoes. 2 hours before landing water the tubers with a solution of complex fertilizer.
You can not keep the tubers in boxes for too long, because if the roots are long, they will be damaged during transplantation.
Landing pattern
In the ridges with a shovel, dig holes 10–15 cm deep. Bring boxes of tubers to the site. Take each tuber from the box and transfer it along with the sawdust. Plant tuber crops in 2 rows in a staggered manner.
Plot breakdown
- Pick up the sunniest placealign it.
- In the fall, dig up the soil, remove the weeds and roots, fertilize the ground with specially invented mixtures.
- Dig through the narrow, long beds from north to south. The distance between the beds should be 0.7-1 m. It is advised to make the length of the bed 9 m, width 45 cm. Then the bushes will be lit up as much as possible all day. If you decide to plant potatoes on a slope, then form the beds in steps, like terraces.
- On the bed on both sides scoop up the soil so that the bumpers are formed 10 cm high. Then the moisture will evaporate less, and weeds will be easier to remove.
- Dig in 2 rows of holes, observing chess order. Indent between the holes at 30 cm, and the holes themselves, 7–12 cm deep.
- In each well pour 1 tbsp. spoon of vermicompost, put the potatoes with his eyes up, and cover with soil.
- Do not dig aisles. On subsequent landings, do not change anything in places.
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- An example of potato mulching with hay
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- Mulching with sawdust
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- Grass mulching
What potato varieties are suitable
Any potato varieties are suitable: early ripening, medium and late. But it is better to apply zoned varieties.
Mulching
Mulching is way to protect young bushes. At the same time, heat and moisture retain better, weeds grow worse, plants grow faster.
Lay a layer of mulch with a thickness of 5-10 cm. If the mulch becomes thinner due to precipitation and watering, then mulch the earth again.
Fertilizer
Mitlider advises 2 composition for dressing:
- Mixture number 1. Mix 40 g of boric acid and 5 kg of dolomite flour. For 1 m² of beds, use 100 g.
- Mixture number 2. Mix 0.5 kg of magnesium sulphate, 1.4 kg of ammonium nitrate, 0.6 kg of ammophos, 5 g of molybdic acid, 1.1 kg of potassium sulphate, 5 g of boric acid. Consume 50 g per 1 m² of beds.
When feeding, first make the first mixture, and then the second.
First, when digging up the soil, scatter 100 g of mixture No. 1 per linear meter, and then 50 g of mixture No. 2 per linear meter.
Feed the second time when the sprouts are up to 15 cm high, and the third time before blooming on the bushes.
Top dressing sprinkled in the center of the gardenthen the potato roots will not burn.
Watering
Mitlider advises to water the bushes every day so that the ground does not dry out. You can water from the hose or make drip irrigation. If you water from a hose, then direct a stream under the roots. After the bushes ottsvetut, you should stop feeding and watering.
Top errors in this method
Watering potatoes
If you feed the bushes at the rate, but water the beds 1-2 times a week, the compositions you make do not dissolve, but gradually accumulate to the concentration that will destroy the bushes.
If you plant and grow potatoes using the Mietlider method, the best water it every day or every other day.
You need to constantly keep the ground moist, since in the bushes of potatoes on mitlayderovskih ridges roots grow close to the surface, so do not loosen ridges.
Selection of the composition for feeding
In this case, when making mixture No. 1, you should take gypsum instead of dolomite flour,and if you have a sour soil, you can use dolomitic, limestone flour, chalk.
Poor mixing of fertilizers
If you scattered the dressing, and after one or two taps turned the ground, the fertilizer will be collected in some places, but it should be distributed evenly.
Bad ridge alignment
If the ridge is sloped, then during irrigation water will flow only in one direction. As a result, on one side of the ridge there will be a lack of fertilizers and moisture, and on the other side - an overabundance.
therefore try to level the surface using the building level and bar. If the place is under a strong incline, then break the beds into parts.
The use of additional elements in complex fertilizers
For example, to add magnesium sulphate to a mixture, you acquire “Mag-Bor”, in which besides magnesium there is also boron. As a result, you will have a surplus of boron.
So when you make mix # 2, then do not buy complex mineral fertilizers, because in them, in addition to the basic elements, there are trace elements, for example, iron.
Buy items strictly on the composition of the mixtures, do not ignore any element.
Amendments to the version for Russia
In the scheme of the Russian version, instead of the recommended fertilizers, you can replace them with an infusion of crushed herbs and water. With properly selected fertilizers, potatoes are self-cleaning through photosynthesis.
But if the plot is not well lit, not enough watering, then nitrates will accumulate in potatoestherefore it is better to use green fertilizer.
As a result of using the Metlider method, potatoes are harvested by 15-25% more than from a vegetable garden, where potatoes are planted in the traditional way.