Adretta potatoes: variety description, photos, reviews

Content

1 Short description
- 1.1 A few words about fodder potatoes
- 1.2 Table
2 Growing
3 Storage
4 Improved "Adretta"
5 Reviews
6 Conclusion

Every year, gardeners spend a lot of time searching for the perfect variety to meet specific requirements. Let's talk about potatoes. If you take the five most popular varieties in our country, Adretta will definitely be among them. It occupies leading positions in the top lists on various sites for a reason. Let's find out what's wrong with it and why it's often recommended to grow Adretta potatoes. Description of the variety, photos, reviews and information on growing this potato will definitely be useful.

Short description

The Adretta potato was developed in Germany not so long ago; it is about twenty years old. During this time, these table potatoes have gained popularity not only at home, but also abroad. The thing is that root vegetables are famous for:

high productivity;
excellent taste;
fairly rapid harvest ripening.

Every property has a meaning. The potato flesh is yellow. Previously, tubers with this color of pulp were used only for livestock feed and were considered tasteless. For a long time, only “Adretta” was a variety that people not only liked for its taste, but also amazed with its friability and tenderness. This is influenced by the average starch content, about 16%. Based on this variety, a large number of new ones were bred, which did not always retain their taste, but were also quite good.

A few words about fodder potatoes

Today, not only gardeners, but also potato buyers are already accustomed to potatoes with yellow flesh and even a little purple, and not just the usual white, but two decades ago “Adretta” was a unique variety. Before its appearance, yellow potatoes were used only for feed in livestock farms, since their taste was unimportant.

German breeders created a real sensation in the late 90s, since the Adretta variety was the first to have a yellow core and be extremely tasty. As experts say, it was this quality that became decisive in such a rapid growth in popularity.

Let's look at a comparative table of parameters for a given potato variety. This will help those summer residents who have not yet decided on the choice of variety. The ripening period, technical details and small nuances - all this is very important even when growing such a familiar crop as potatoes.

Table

This table describes the Adretta potato variety.

Options	Description of the variety
Description of the plant	Compact bush with light green leaves
Maturation speed	Medium early, from germination to technical maturity takes 75 days
Features of sowing	Grown in open ground, sown no later than May, depending on the weather conditions of the region, to a depth of 7 centimeters according to the 60x35 pattern
Care	Fight with weeds and keeping the soil loose
Description of root vegetables	The tubers weigh 100-150 grams, are aligned, oval in shape
Disease resistance	To late blight, to cancer, to stem nematode
Productivity	4-8 kilograms per square meter

The root vegetables themselves have small eyes, the skin is very thin and has a yellowish tint.Many gardeners have at least once seen the Adretta potato, the description of which we have just given, on store shelves. It is often grown on an industrial scale.

Growing

Unpretentiousness is a quality that is greatly appreciated by anyone who has ever grown their own vegetables and root crops. This is a very complex process that requires attention, patience and a lot of work. When growing, every gardener hopes to get a rich harvest of excellent quality with high shelf life. Unfortunately, this is not always the case, especially for beginners.

In order for the harvest to be rich and healthy, it is not enough to choose the right variety. Proper cultivation is the key to success. Potatoes of this variety have excellent agrotechnical qualities:

unpretentious to grow;
resistant to major diseases;
has high productivity;
tolerates low temperatures well.

Important! This variety can be planted in mid-spring if the soil is warm. It will produce a harvest in early July, which is considered quite early.

Before sowing the seeds, it is recommended to soak them in water for 1-2 days. This will allow them to ascend faster. The water should be at room temperature.

Advice! Do not purchase seed potatoes from your own hands; they may be of poor quality. In specialized stores, Adretta potatoes are always present on the shelves.

The best soils for it:

light loams;
sandy loam;
soddy-podzolic.

You should not add manure that is harmful to the taste of the soil. It is also necessary to pay attention to groundwater. They should be located no higher than one meter.“Adretta” seeds are tubers that can be planted in open ground as early as April if you live in the southern regions. You can harden them in advance:

Place the soaked seeds in the refrigerator overnight (temperature +1-2 degrees);
maintain warm temperatures during the day (+22-24 degrees).

Advice! If there is very little seed material, the potato tubers can be cut into pieces. Each of them should contain one eye.

If the gardener lives in a more severe climate, it is advised to plant potatoes of this variety first in boxes, then pick them up and move them into the ground. Although you can wait for the May warmth, especially since the variety ripens quite quickly. In order to protect the plant from additional viruses, you should spray the tubers with a fungicide before planting.

The optimal temperature conditions for growing the Adretta variety are as follows:

during the day +15-17 degrees (can be higher);
at night +7-9 degrees.

It is advisable to fertilize carefully, without overdoing it. During the rooting period they are required. Ash and superphosphate are excellent for these purposes. The latter is also used during the flowering period. Please note that the Adretta variety requires timely watering and loosening of the soil. He is not genetically protected from the Colorado potato beetle, but suffers little from it.

It is also necessary to control weeds and sow the plant in open areas. Potatoes love the sun very much. If the area is shaded, the tubers will be small and the bushes will stretch upward.

In general, it is not difficult to grow; some tips from a gardener who grew these potatoes on his own are presented in the video below.

In addition to questions about growing the variety, many summer residents are concerned about storage and maintaining quality during this period. Let's talk about this topic.

Storage

I want to preserve the potatoes I grew with my own hands on the plot for as long as possible. They sort it out and cover it on cold days. For Russians, this root vegetable is of utmost importance, as it is used in food very often. It is desirable for every citizen that potatoes not only last for a long time, but also do not lose their taste. As for the Adretta variety, it corresponds to these qualities.

Attention! This variety stores well and also retains its beneficial qualities. It is almost not afraid of rot, which affects a large number of good-yielding varieties.

When growing, the temperature outside the window can often drop. This gives varietal potatoes an unpleasant sweetish taste. In the situation with this variety, you don’t have to be afraid of small temperature changes.

This quality is ideal both during cultivation and storage. Ripe Adretta root vegetables must be placed in a cellar with excellent ventilation. This also applies to other potato varieties. The crop is first sorted for rot and damage.

Improved "Adretta"

Often, when coming to a gardening store, customers are faced with the fact that they are offered to replace this favorite variety with another. It may be called "New Adretta" or "Gala". It was actually bred on the basis of German potatoes, but it has some differences and is defined as an independent variety.

Potatoes "Gala" are represented by the same yellow tubers with dark yellow flesh. It is also tasty, stores well and is almost no different in care.However, its yield is less, so when grown under the same conditions, “Gala” will yield a yield of up to 26 kilograms per square meter. It should be noted that this is a lot. This variety is also among the top five the best.

Reviews

The Adretta variety has been grown for a very long time and has not lost popularity throughout this time. As we managed to notice, they tried to improve his health by breeding new types. It is very difficult to gain a foothold in the market, but Adretta not only maintained its dominant position, but also managed to win the hearts of newcomers. Let's look at a few reviews from those who have grown this potato variety more than once.

Valeria Frolova, Novorossiysk

We plant "Adretta" in April, when the weather is already warm. This potato is considered long-lived, since my mother grew it fifteen years ago. The potatoes are tasty and ripen quickly. I know cases when, when planting “Adretta” in the Urals under a film cover, these potatoes withstood frosts down to -3 degrees. Of course, this doesn’t happen with us. My neighbors in the country plant Adretta potatoes every year in May. He keeps up quickly, so there is no need to rush.

Lev Davydov, Saratov

I recommend boiling young potatoes of this variety in their skins and eating them with the peel, since they are rich in B vitamins and other beneficial substances. I have never seen tastier potatoes, so “Adretta”, “Tuleevsky” and “Gala” always grow on my small plot. I keep it all fall and winter, and there is enough for spring. I will note the disadvantages: • instability to viral diseases; • seeding material needs to be renewed every 5 years, since the tubers become smaller over the years. It's not so scary. Every year I fight the Colorado potato beetle, but in general the variety has never failed.

Conclusion

Despite the fact that the description of the potato variety contains some minor disadvantages, this does not affect the popularity of the Adretta root crop. Often gardeners grow several varieties at once, and at the end of the season they do a comparative analysis. This is also appropriate in this case.

Potatoes of this variety are worthy of attention and the highest rating. If you have never planted Adretta before, be sure to try it in the spring. The taste will not leave anyone indifferent, small eyes make it easy to clean the tubers before cooking, and the growing process will not be difficult. It was these qualities that initially attracted gardeners from various regions.

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