High-quality seed potatoes want to be used not only by large farms, but also by competent summer residents and gardeners. After all, if it is possible to grow potatoes with your own hands on your site, then you will try to do everything as best as possible, because this is for yourself, and not for sale.
Therefore, let us give some advice on how to handle our seed material in "home" conditions. To get the maximum yield, seed potatoes need to be properly and well prepared for planting.
Selection and preparation for planting healthy potato tubers
You need to sort out the seed potatoes you have for planting in advance - before planting the tubers and even before laying them for germination.
Ugly tubers that suffocated during storage, frostbitten, severely damaged by various pests and affected by dry rot, common scab, as well as those that did not sprout after germination or have filamentous sprouts, are rejected.
Careful selection and preparation of healthy tubers increases the ...