Most vegetables are matured before your eyes. The potatoes are different because they grow below the surface of the soil. So, how do you know when the potato is ready to harvest? There are some signs for passing, but, fortunately, you are also guided by knowing how long your special type of potatoes last; This information will be available when you buy your “seed potatoes”.

We will look at this article several times for some of the different varieties of potatoes, signs that will help you determine the harvest time, factors that affect the growth time and tips to get you on your right leg in a growing potato.

How much time should different potato varieties grow?

In terms of the number of days between planting and harvest, potatoes are divided into three categories: early, medium and late. The early type lasts up to 110 days to mature, medium species between 111 and 120 days, and a late type of more than 120 days.

But there is another way to categorize potatoes: by skin color (with brown, red, white and yellow color most often). The potatoes are cold crops and should be planted in early spring (although planting should be avoided before the soil temperature has reached 45 ° F).

• Russet norkotah: Place this cultivar russet potatoes in early spring. The reduced variety recorded, it takes up to 110 days to mature.
• Dakota Jewel: Herbal Dakota Jewel in early spring. It is a reddish variety. It takes between 111 and 120 days for mature.
• Kennebec: Biljački kennebec potato in early spring. The white variety was taken, it takes more than 120 days for mature.
• Yukon Gold: Plant Yukon Gold potatoes in early spring. This is a yellow skin variety. It takes up to 110 days for the mature.

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4 characters potatoes are ready for harvest

There are four things to move to tell you that potatoes are ready for excavation:

• The potatoes are usually planted using “seed potatoes”. They are obtained from potatoes that were slipping. Such a potato has been cut into the sections, and each has a germination or two. When you buy them, the accompanying information will include the target due date. Record in your Garden Journal about what this date is and when you planted your seed potatoes. When the target date is greeted, your potatoes should be ready for harvest soon.
• To confirm that your potatoes are ready to harvest, do some research digging and check your skin. The skin should be thick and firm.
• If you are still unsure of whether your mature potatoes are based on a leather check, then you can wait for the leaves to die. Once that happens, the potatoes are definitely ready for the folder.
• If you want to harvest some “new potatoes” (potatoes intentionally excavated too early), your sign will be the look of flowers.

Factors that affect the growth time

We have already addressed the question of how long the different varieties of potatoes need to grow. However, the answer comes with a great warning: various factors affect the time of growth, which is why the time range (not a certain number).

If everything goes wrong for early diversity, all goes right for late variety, the difference in due date for them can be independent and a half. Let’s look at some of the factors that affect the growth time:

• Photosynthesis reduction: It can be caused by two factors. First of all, the potatoes should be breeding in full sun. If they are grown only in partial sun, it will not grow so fast. Other reason growth of potatoes Sometimes the dispute due to the reduction of photosynthesis is when the damage is applied to the leaves. It is most often due to the infection of Colorado potato legs.
• Soil too cold: If you get cold after crew your potatoes, the soil can become cold enough to slow down your growth for a while, which means that the harvesting time will be delayed.
• Imbalance in humidity: The potatoes are growing the best when the balance is hit in humidity: not too little, not too much. For example, if they are subjected to high humidity, potato plants can fall prey with fungal diseases that will weaken them and slow growth.

Potato breeding tips

For potato bumper crops, implement the following breeding tips:

• As a crop of roots, the soil in which you plant potatoes from special importance. You should be a flipped with a syllable. You want a deep, fertile ground.
• To avoid diseases, practice crop rotation: do not grow potatoes in the same place from year to year.
• Plant a potato in full sun.
• Till retention Even wet wet is important. Water thoroughly once or twice a week.
• “Hill” your plants. Once the plants reach the leg or similar, they use a garden hoe to retreat the part of the surrounding ground on the basics of plants.