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Breeders from different countries are constantly searching for new varieties of vegetables. Potatoes are no exception. Today there are many early and mid-ripening potato varieties that are valued by vegetable growers. When choosing, the ability to achieve high yield and the preservation of potatoes is taken into account.
Jelly potatoes have captivated Russians with their special taste, beautiful appearance, and high yield. It is grown in home gardens and on farms.
Spreading
The “parents” of the Jelly varietal potato are breeders from Holland. It was created in 2005. The Jelly variety was immediately included in the State Register of the Russian Federation. At first, potatoes were grown in the Central and Volga-Vyatka regions.
Since 2010, the Jelly variety has become widespread in other regions of Russia, where the climate allows for growing early potatoes. The popularity of potatoes among consumers has made it possible to start growing them on an industrial scale.
Description, photo
A story about Jelly potatoes would be incomplete without a description of the variety.
The photo clearly shows that the tops of Jelly potatoes are tall, semi-erect, and sometimes spread out. The foliage is dark green, with ruffled edges. The flowers are white, the inflorescence is compact.
In each nest, up to 15 almost smooth, slightly roughened tubers, weighing 84-140 grams, ripen. The peel color is yellow. The potatoes have an oval-round shape, the sizes are almost the same, look at the photo.
The eyes of this variety are not deep and are located on the surface. The dark yellow pulp contains up to 18% starch.
Characteristics
Jelly potatoes are table varieties. Reaches technical ripeness in three months. If temperature conditions permit, if planted early, you can dig up Jelly potatoes by the end of June. If the soil is nutritious, then 156-292 centners can be collected from one hectare.
There is nothing surprising here: in the photo there is one bush of Jelly potato variety. Count how many tubers there are! As a rule, there are practically no substandard potatoes.
Maybe one of the vegetable growers will check this statement about the characteristics of the variety, and then report the results in reviews. After all, among our readers there are many experimenters.
Agrotechnical characteristics of Jelly potatoes:
- Fluctuations in average daily temperatures and short-term drought do not adversely affect crop yields.
- The variety is demanding on complex mineral fertilizers.
- Potatoes tolerate mechanical damage easily and can withstand long-term transportation with virtually no losses.
- Repeated hilling is necessary.
- Many potato diseases do not affect.The only problem is with late blight: the tops and tubers are slightly damaged.
- To prevent potatoes from losing their varietal qualities, they need to be planted in a new place every year.
Otherwise, the Jelly potato variety is unpretentious and does not cause much trouble.
Warning! The presence of weeds causes potato diseases. Weeds No place in a potato field!
Jelly is just delicious
The vegetable is nutritious, pleasant to the taste, and wateriness is not observed even in young potatoes. When cut, Jelly is dark yellow in color and remains intact during cooking.
Thanks to the dense pulp, it does not boil over. This quality is highly valued by manufacturers of chips and French fries. You can cook soups with yellowish potatoes, fry them, boil them whole - the shape is not lost. But for puree you will have to use other varieties.
How delicious the Jelly potatoes look in the photo below.
What you need to know about growing rules
Soil importance
The unpretentious variety Jelly should be planted on light, nutrient-rich soils. It responds well to soil with a lot of sand.
Since it is undesirable to grow this variety in one place, the following crops can serve as predecessors:
- phacelia;
- radishes;
- peas
- beans;
- lentils.
Plowing of vegetable gardens is carried out when the soil is completely warmed. You should not leave any plant debris on the site so as not to infect the tubers with diseases.
When growing the Jelly potato variety on an industrial scale, complex fertilizers are applied. In small areas you can get by with stove ash.
Preparing the seeds
Three weeks before planting, you need to get seed potatoes for germination. Spread the tubers in an even layer in a warm, fairly humid, well-lit room. If possible, then directly in the sun so that the potatoes turn green.
During this time, the eyes wake up and begin to sprout. The sprouts you see in the picture below are considered the best. They are strong and firmly adhere to the uterus. When planting, they practically do not break off and take root quickly.
If large tubers of the Jelly variety have been stored, they can be cut into pieces. This method saves seed material. The Jelly variety has a positive attitude towards such an experiment.
The seed material at the cut site is powdered with wood ash. This is both tuber protection and additional feeding.
Landing rules
To get a rich harvest of Jelly potatoes, judging by the description of the variety, numerous photos and reviews from vegetable growers, you need to follow agrotechnical standards.
A distance of 75 cm is maintained between rows, and at least 35 cm between tubers. With dense plantings, the Jelly variety reduces productivity, the plants are not ventilated, do not receive additional heat and light - diseases are right there. Planting potatoes brings together both big and small. Look at the photo how dad and daughter work together.
Features of care
Jelly potatoes can withstand drought, so it is not advisable to resort to watering.
The rest of the time, weeds are removed and double hilling is carried out.This helps to destroy small weeds and loosen the soil crust.
Colorado potato beetles cause a lot of trouble for vegetable growers. Spraying is used to destroy them. We have to fight mole crickets and wireworms. They damage the root system and tubers.
What ails potatoes
When creating the Jelly variety, breeders took care of the potato’s immune system. He practically never has:
- potato cancer;
- cyst nematode;
- scab;
- black leg;
- viral diseases.
The only disease that affects the tops and partly the tubers of the Jelly variety is late blight. It needs to be stopped at the initial stage, as in the photo, and processing must begin. It is carried out at least 3 times until the disease is completely destroyed.
Spraying preparations can be purchased in specialized stores. You can use:
- Ridomil MC;
- Osksikhom;
- Ditamine M-45;
- copper oxychloride;
- Cuproxat.
One of these drugs is shown in the photo.
All these drugs are toxic. When diluting, follow the instructions. You need to wear protective clothing when working. After spraying, wash your face and hands.
A month before harvesting vegetables, work with any toxic preparations stops.
Cleaning and storage
In order for the harvested Jelly potatoes to be well preserved, they need to be harvested in dry, sunny weather. The collected tubers are laid out on the soil to dry. Then they leave it under a canopy for a week.
The tubers are sorted and those that were damaged during digging are removed. At home, store in the basement or in a dark place in a city apartment. During industrial production, vegetables are stored in bags in a vegetable storehouse. Storage methods are in the photo below.
In 2018, I also didn’t have any small ones, although June and July were dry, although there were 4-5 tubers weighing an average of 300 grams, and the bottom of the potato was almost 600 grams, afraid of late blight, but managed to ripen before it appeared
I had this variety in the first cold rainy year of 2017, it was born “To glory”, there were no small tubers at all, 150-380 grams, can you imagine a potato weighing almost half a kilo?