Potato "roko": characteristics of the variety, reviews

Among vegetable crops, potatoes are deservedly popular all over the world. It is called the second bread. It is difficult to imagine a diet without potatoes. It is successfully grown by truck farmers. The technology of cultivation of this vegetable culture is simple. Potatoes are a fairly unpretentious plant, and you can achieve good harvests by observing certain agrotechnical techniques.

How to choose a planting material?

Each gardener approaches this in different ways. One description of culture is not enough. Most often, the choice is influenced by the reviews of experienced vegetable growers. Potato planting is distinguished by a variety of varieties of foreign and domestic selection. Many of them have high yield and excellent taste qualities. They can be divided into groups in terms of maturation. These are late, middle and early potatoes. However, when choosing a planting material, many advantages are taken into account. The stability of the plant plays an important role. The quality and magnitude of the future crop depend on this. There are a lot of favorite varieties of potatoes, which are popular among truck farmers. They are distinguished by a combination of good yields, excellent taste qualities with resistance to diseases. Potato "roko" deserves attention among them.

Characteristic of the variety

Vegetable cultures of Dutch breeding are popular all over the world. Among them a worthy place is occupied by a sort of potato "roko", which is included in the state register of the Russian Federation in 2002. It is distinguished by medium maturity, being a medium-ripening. Vegetation period is from 100 to 115 days. At the same time, weather conditions make their corrections in the duration of the growing season.

Advantages of the variety

It should be noted the high yield, which reaches 350-400 quintals per hectare. From one bush are collected from 12 to 15 tubers. And this is not the limit. In favorable years, individual farms received harvests up to 600 quintals per hectare. The table sort of potato "roko" has good taste qualities. The dense pulp of the tubers does not change color after heat treatment. In addition, the Dutchman has an excellent marketable appearance and a long shelf life. It is easy to transport. This variety is ideal for farms that cultivate potatoes for retail sale. It's a pretty lucrative sort.

In addition to food and commodity value, it should be noted and other advantages that potato "Roco" has. Characteristics of the variety will be incomplete without describing its inherent resistance to disease. It is not affected by the cancer of the potato, the golden potato nematode, the Y virus. The variety is relatively stable to the blight of the tubers, to the twisting of the leaves.

Description

Potatoes planting "roko" is easy to distinguish by external signs. Its smooth tubers have an oval shape, small eyes, a rug of reddish hue and creamy flesh. Weight of the tuber is from 115 to 120 grams. The plantation is also easy to find on the plantation. This is an upright midget bush. Dark green, slightly wavy leaves of open type are small in size. The plant differs by a rare bright violet bloom. But often it is completely absent.

Peculiarities of growing

Minimum care will require potatoes "roko". The characterization of the variety confirms this statement. Resistance to disease makes it easier to grow. For a normal development of tubers requires a fairly loose ground. They are planted in pre-prepared soil. Cultivate the site. Consideration should be given to crop rotation. The best predecessors will be perennial grasses, winter crops, grains and legumes.

Terms of sowing

In different areas, potatoes "roko" are planted at certain times. The characteristic of the variety marks its resistance to unfavorable weather conditions. However, the main criterion in determining the timing of inoculum is the soil temperature. For a given variety, it must be at least fourteen degrees. This parameter is slightly higher than for other analogs. In most areas, the sowing season is at the beginning of May.

Landing

Plant potatoes "roko" in rows. At the same time between them stand the distance equal to sixty centimeters. When planting, wood ash is added to each well. Between the holes should be at least thirty-five centimeters. A few weeks before planting, the tubers are germinated in the light. In this case, the damaged planting material is discarded. Tubers of large sizes are cut by processing the cutoff site with ashes. Presowing treatment is carried out by spraying with a Bordeaux liquid. Planting potatoes are deepened into the soil by eight or ten centimeters. By this time the tubers have small, well-formed sprouts.

Care

Agrotechnics is simple. The sites are thoroughly cleaned from weeds. Carry out regular loosening of the soil. If possible, fertilizers are introduced. The need for hilling is a feature of this type of potato. The responses of truck farmers who share the experience of growing "roko", confirm that the formation of tubers goes quite close to the surface of the soil. Under each bush, twelve large enough tubers are formed. Ogorodniki offer to spend hilling plants in several terms, so as not to lose part of the crop. This agrotechnical technique begins before the flowering of potatoes. When he reaches a height of ten centimeters, you can spend the first hilling. Shoots at the same time fall asleep completely on the ground. Thus, the potato will be protected from damage by unexpected spring frosts, and also from the main pest - the Colorado beetle. It should be noted that this event is carried out after precipitation. The second stage is during the flowering period. During this period, the formation of tubers begins.

Resistant to many diseases is potato "Roco". Characteristic of the variety allows to assert that preventive measures are practically not required. However, the plant leaves can be affected by late blight. As a preventive measure, the potato plantation is sprayed with special preparations designed to combat this disease. Potato plantations can also be damaged by the Colorado beetle. When the larvae appear on plants, the potatoes are sprayed with special preparations.

Harvesting and storage

After a hundred days you can dig up the tubers. By this time the bushes completely wither. In dry weather, they start harvesting. Potatoes are extracted from the ground. Give a good dry out. After that, it is sorted, culling the damaged one. Before laying for storage for a week, the tubers are kept in a dry place without access to light. Potato varieties "Roco" is well kept for a long time.