Potatoes on 3 acres. (1991)

A field with planted potatoes, apartment buildings nearby.

View from the window of an apartment building on garden plots, urban developments in the background.

The train approaches the platform.

There are a lot of people on the platform.

Places where vegetable plots are usually allocated.

The camera shows the inconveniences first, then the cultivated land.

Potatoes are blooming.

The camera shows a plot where there is a shortage of fertilizers, next to a re-grading with seed material.

A plot treated in compliance with all the rules of agricultural technology.

The laboratory where the natural potential of the soil was determined.

The analysis showed how much phosphorus and potassium fertilizers should be introduced into the soil.

Analysis for humus.

2.0-2.5% humus content is optimal for growing potatoes.

Nettle and quinoa are indicators of humus content.

If ivan tea grows well, then the soil has increased acidity.

The agrochemical laboratory analyzes the acidity of the soil.

Based on the analysis, liming of the soil is carried out in the spring.

To do this, dolomite flour is introduced under the plowing.

Potato tubers affected by scab, as a result of over-cultivation.

Knowledge of the chemical composition of the soil is necessary.

Example, drained swampy soil poisoned by harmful substances.

Another area in which there are no harmful substances, but groundwater is located close.

A plot located near the road.

Heavy metals accumulate on land located at a distance of 200-300 meters from roads and railways.

There is a train on the railway.

A factory and a road with heavy traffic.

These are the sources of land pollution nearby.

A clearing with haystacks.

In many ways, the potato harvest depends on its predecessors.

These should be crops that are not susceptible to its diseases, for example, cereals and legumes.

Hay rolls in the field.

Harvesting clover.

It is very good when the remnants of clover are plowed into the soil.

Before processing the field, it is necessary to remove the remains of plants.

Organic fertilizers are applied under the shovel.

The owner digs up a vegetable garden for sowing potatoes.

Digging up turf is difficult, but useful.

Over the winter, the turf will ripen and fertilizer will turn out.

The place where the layers of turf are stacked, which will ripen in a year or two and get humus.

Compost heap.

Compost is prepared from any plant residues mixed with manure and peat.

Plowing the soil with an electric plow.

Samples of minitechnics for working in small areas.

Plowing a plot with a tractor.

The birds in the field are following the tractor.

Over the winter, clods of earth are frozen, the rhizomes of perennial weeds remaining on the surface freeze out, and pests also die.

Samples of seed potatoes.

When preparing potatoes for planting, it must be sorted.

Potatoes are thrown into a bucket with a solution of salt, tubers unsuitable for planting will pop up.

Potatoes put on germination.

You can prepare potatoes for germination by hanging potatoes in cellophane bags with holes on sticks.

Accelerated shooting of potato germination.

To obtain earlier products for germination, boxes with wet peat or sawdust are used.

A sample of sprouted potatoes.

Stimulating incisions on seed potatoes, which help to reduce the growing season and increase yields by 20-25%.

Tubers sprouted for seedlings.

Panorama of fields for planting potatoes in early spring.

A lump of earth is crumbling, so the soil is ripe.

Application of manure in spring.

Introduction of ash and mineral fertilizers into the soil.

Mini ripper.

Spring digging of the potato plot.

Digging should be done with a shovel and 3-4cm less deep than in autumn, because it is possible to turn out the plant residues sealed in autumn.

The alignment of the plot ends with the preparation of the plot for planting.

Smooth planting is recommended for sandy loam and sandy insufficiently moistened soils.

Planting is carried out in holes dug along the marking with twine.

After planting the tuber, fertilizers are applied to the hole.

The hole is 8-10 cm deep.

If the soil on the site is waterlogged, planting in ridges at the same depth is recommended.

When it is necessary for the soil to warm up faster and plant growth to accelerate, tubers are planted in ridges.

Mini potato planter.

A cartoon explaining the general rules for planting potatoes.

Weeds have appeared, they need to be destroyed immediately.

If this is not done, then in one or two weeks the field will overgrow as shown in the frame.

It is easiest to extract weeds at the first stage of development, at the thread stage.

The procedure is shown on the screen.

If the process is started, the weed will become more powerful than potatoes.

The work on hiding potato seedlings from spring frosts is shown.

The first hoeing.

The second hoeing is performed at a height of shoots 15-20cm.

Samples of the tool for hoeing in small areas.

Manual cultivator.

As an example, a plot with potatoes, where weeding and hoeing were not carried out.

A cartoon explaining the positive effect of weeding, loosening and hoeing procedures on potato shoots.

Plants damaged by late blight.

It is difficult to overcome late blight, it is easier to carry out prevention in the spring.

Preparation of a solution of copper sulfate and spraying the field in spring.

In summer, for preventive purposes and when late blight is detected, the tops of plants are sprayed with the same solution.

In extreme cases, the tops of severely affected areas, so as not to infect the soil and tubers through it, are destroyed with a solution of magnesium chlorate or mowed down before harvesting.

The Colorado potato beetle.

They can completely destroy the tops and prevent the tubers from developing.

A sample of the affected plant is demonstrated.

In the spring, lay out potato peelings on the field and cover them with straw, beetles bite on such bait.

On a good plot, you can choose your seed fund.

In the frame, the owner chooses the best potato bushes to remove them first.

Seed tubers should be of medium size.

Samples of seed potatoes.

Potato harvesting.

Potato tubers must be dried.

Potatoes with phytophthora are rejected.

The green tubers must be removed from the harvested potatoes.

However, biologically active substances that prevent the development of rot are mobilized in green tubers.

Therefore, tubers selected for seeds are specially planted within 10-12 days.

Storing potatoes in an apartment building on the balcony in a thermostat box.

View of the garden plots from the windows of an apartment building.