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Elmundo potatoes are an early ripening table variety. The variety has many advantages and is in good standing with vegetable growers and farmers. Its bushes have a large number of tubers and can be grown in almost any type of soil. Potatoes tolerate long-distance transportation well, have good resistance to mechanical damage, and cope with adverse weather conditions.
Elmundo is a crop variety suitable for commercial cultivation
History of selection
The Elmundo potato is a Dutch variety that was developed in the Netherlands. In 2013, it was included in the State Register of Russia and allowed for cultivation on its territory. The variety appeared thanks to the work of Peter Oldenkamp, and its originator is the Kws Potato company.
Description of Elmundo potatoes
The plant is characterized by rather large bushes. It has tall stems and a dense crown.The culture has earned popularity and love among gardeners due to its unpretentiousness in cultivation and care. Elmundo potatoes have minimal soil requirements, are resistant to drought, and can be stored for a long time without losing their high taste.
Bush
The variety has erect bushes, the height of which can reach 70 cm or more. Their surface is well leafy, the leaf blades are elongated, green in color, with slightly jagged edges. Elmundo potatoes bloom with medium-sized buds of a snow-white purple hue. The root system of the plant is branched, due to which a large number of large tubers are formed on it.
Tubers
One bush of the Elmundo variety produces on average about 20 oval-round potatoes. Their surface is smooth, with numerous small-sized eyes. The peel of the vegetable is thin but durable, the flesh and skin are light yellow. The weight of the tubers is average, ranging from 100 to 140 g.
Elmundo has an attractive presentation
Characteristics of Elmundo potatoes
This variety of vegetable crop has excellent taste, rapid ripening, and high yield. Due to its good product characteristics, it is intended for retail and wholesale sales. Elmundo potatoes are resistant to major root diseases, various damage, and adverse weather conditions. The marketability of the variety is from 79 to 98%, keeping quality indicators are up to 97%.
Taste qualities of Elmundo potatoes
As for taste, this variety has a rich taste, the flesh is slightly watery, but does not darken when cut, and the consistency is delicate. During heat treatment, Elmundo tubers retain their shape.The vegetable contains up to 14% starch, great for cooking soups, frying and deep-frying.
Ripening time
The Elmundo potato variety is an early-ripening representative of the vegetable crop. It grows quickly and is fully mature after 80 days of growth. Its first digging can be done a month and a half after planting.
Productivity
The culture is characterized as high-yielding. But this indicator is significantly influenced by soil fertility and compliance with care recommendations. On average, from 250 to 350 centners of potatoes are obtained from one hectare of land.
Tubers are collected twice: on the 45th and 55th day after emergence.
The maximum yield of the variety is stated as 507 quintals per 1 ha
Growing regions
Elmundo potatoes grow well in many Russian regions. Most often it is planted in the Voronezh, Moscow, Vladimir, and Yaroslavl regions. The variety is zoned for the Central, North Caucasus, Middle Volga and North-Western regions.
Disease resistance
The variety is characterized by good resistance to various diseases and pests. Elmundo is not susceptible to golden nematode, Alternaria, or potato canker, but can sometimes suffer from late blight, less often mosaic.
Among the pests, the variety is most often attacked by the Colorado potato beetle, and surface-acting insecticides are used to combat it.
Advantages and disadvantages
Elmundo potatoes have many more advantages than disadvantages. This is why he fell in love with many vegetable growers and farmers.
Elmundo is one of the hardiest varieties of Dutch selection
Pros:
- stable high yield;
- early ripening;
- marketable condition;
- undemanding to soil;
- long-term storage;
- good immunity to diseases;
- pleasant taste;
- resistance to cold and drought.
Minuses:
- susceptibility to late blight;
- poor cooking ability;
- deformation of tubers in soil with a high acid reaction.
Landing Features
Elmundo is a potato that can grow in almost any soil, but prefers a loose substrate. The variety is suitable for turf, loamy, leafy, sandy soil. The main recommendation is to ensure that the soil has low acidity levels. With a high concentration, the tubers will develop poorly, become deformed, and lose their presentation. The plant develops best in elevated, well-lit and ventilated areas, without strong gusts of wind. It shows excellent results in the place where green manure was sown before winter.
Elmundo potatoes are usually planted in early May, but in southern latitudes work can begin as early as the end of April. Actions are usually performed according to the following scheme:
- The area dug up and fertilized with mullein in the fall is treated with herbicides.
- Healthy and large sprouted tubers are soaked in potassium permanganate or growth stimulants.
- The treated planting material is planted in holes at a distance of 35 cm from each other to a depth of 10 cm; an interval of 65 cm is left between the rows.
As a predecessor for Elmundo, it is better to choose beets, cabbage, legumes, carrots
Care instructions
Despite the fact that the variety is considered not picky, basic rules for caring for plantings must be followed. They consist of simple agrotechnical procedures:
- Watering. After the Elmundo potato has been planted, it is not moistened. The first time watering is carried out only when the first shoots appear on the soil surface. Although the variety is considered drought-resistant, plantings should be irrigated regularly, during dry weather every three days, during cool conditions once a week. It is impossible to allow the formation of a dry crust on the surface of the earth. After moistening the soil, it is recommended to loosen it and get rid of weeds.
- Hilling. The procedure should be carried out twice per season: the first when the shoots grow to 15 cm in height, the second when the buds form.
- Fertilizer. It is advisable to feed the crop every 20 days. It is best to alternate superphosphate and bird droppings solution. It is recommended to apply fertilizers for the last time during the period of active flowering.
Using wood ash as a fertilizer for Elmundo potatoes helps increase starch levels in the tubers
Harvest and storage
Harvesting potatoes is an important stage. If you organize it early, the tubers will not have time to ripen and grow to the required size and will be stored worse, and if you start harvesting late, the vegetable may get sick. The Elmundo variety is usually dug up closer to mid-June, but new potatoes can be removed from the ground as early as the last days of July. After cleaning, it should be dried thoroughly.
Store the harvest in a cellar or vegetable store, where the temperature does not rise above +3 °C. When optimal conditions are created, it can lie for four to nine months.
Conclusion
Elmundo potatoes are a strong, early, high-yielding variety of crop. Well suited for planting on personal plots and farm fields. It has a table purpose and is widely used for preparing first and second courses. Judging by the reviews of vegetable growers, many consider it one of the best types of crops.
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