Potatoes are food with rich nutrient. Many people like this for their daily meal. If you want to plant and grow it at home, you can read the following steps as a guide, no matter if you want to plant Russet potatoes, purple potatoes or potatoes uk, all of it has the same ways :
the steps to plant potatoes
- Choose the old and nice potatoes. Characterized by the absence of hole parts and incisions that rot on the surface of potatoes.
- Prepare the planting area by making beds i meter wide and 30 cm high.
- hoe the bed and break the chunk until soil becomes smoothly decomposed.
- Created a ditch between beds as wide as 30 cm and follow the length of planting beds.
- Create the planting holes with a distance of 20 cm between holes.
- put every potatoes into each hole and cover it back with soil.
- Perform routine irrigation 10 days ahead, so that potatoes grow fast. Because the early days of planting require high humidity to grow new saplings.
- Do weeding of weeds that disturb.
- Fertilize 14 days after planting for good and abundant results. Fertilization during planting age is devoted to the enlargement of tubers and multiply saplings.
- Wait until the potatoes plants produce bulbous tubers and ready to harvest.