Sustainable and high-yielding potatoes "Cardinal": description of the variety, photos, characteristics

The potato Cardinal variety is intended primarily for home use. It boasts a large amount of vitamins and minerals contained in root vegetables.

This potato has a stable high yield. Resistant to pests and diseases. Delivers any weather conditions.

Read in our article a complete description of the variety, get acquainted with its characteristics and cultivation features.

Variety spread

Potato Cardinal Netherlands selection.

Has gained wide distribution and is known around the world. Grows in Holland, India, Australia, China, Germany, Austria. It is grown up in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan.

In the Russian Federation, the variety can be found in Moscow, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, and Ivanovo regions. Since the variety tolerates drought well, it is actively grown in the south of the country..

Most of the landings occur in the Krasnodar Territory. The subspecies tolerates hot, dry summers. Resistant to adverse growth conditions. Favorably refers to pressure drops, strong wind, spring frosts.

Potato Cardinal: variety description

Bushes high, upright. Have a large number of leaves. The leaves are elongated, emerald, with a serrated edge. Possess a smooth glossy surface. Corollas maroon and lilac. Anthocyanin color is average. The subspecies has a long growing season. Therefore, the structure of the harvest consists of small and medium fractions of fruits.

Tubers are elongated, with rounded edges. Eyes shallow, superficial. The peel is smooth and smooth. It has a pink tint. The flesh is light, beige and amber. Starch content varies in the range of 14-16%.

You can compare this indicator with other varieties using the data in the table below:

Potato variety Cardinal refers to late ripening. From the first shoots to technical ripeness, 110-120 days pass. Differs in high stable productivity. From 1 ha collect up to 300 centners of fruit.

In productive years, you can collect 350 centners. Tubers have good keeping quality. In the cool vegetable stores stored 4-7 months. The recommended storage temperature varies from 1-4 ° C.

With the keeping quality of other varieties you can see in the table below:

Read more about the storage of potatoes: dates, places, possible problems.

And also how to store roots in the winter, in the apartment and on the balcony, in the cellar and drawers, in the refrigerator and peeled.

The fruits have an excellent presentation. But this production has no big production value. Sold only in private markets. Recommended for home use. It has excellent taste. It is a table variety. Suitable for cooking first and second courses. Can be used to make french fries and chips. Fruits do not boil soft.

Cardinal potatoes, which does not cause allergic reactions. Variety suitable for the manufacture of juice. This product reduces acidity, normalizes the gastrointestinal tract, normalizes stool, eliminates sharp pains in the intestines and stomach.

It has anti-inflammatory effects.. Recommended for consumption by people with ulcers, gastritis, unnormalized acidity, and duodenal disease. Read also about other properties of potatoes: what is useful raw, why people eat sprouts and what is the danger of solanine.

A photo

Pictured: Cardinal potato variety

Growing up

Sort it is intended for cultivation in an open ground. Potatoes are planted in the first decade of May. Recommended planting scheme: 35x70 cm. But it is worth considering that the more space there is between the bushes, the higher the yield will be.

When planted at 40x90 cm with good care, the yield is almost doubled. Sowing depth should not be more than 8-10 cm. Planting material of this class should be placed after winter crops, annual grasses, lupine, flax. The soil must be periodically loosened..

Agrotechnical techniques that are used in the cultivation of potatoes:

• Hilling;

  Whether it is necessary for the potato, what to produce - manually or with a walk-behind tractor, whether it is possible to get a crop without weeding and hilling.

• Mulching;
• Watering;
• Fertilizer;

  When and how to make, what to feed and how to do it when planting, which feedings are the best and what is the use of mineral.

Diseases and pests

It has high resistance to viruses and major diseases. Highly resistant to nematode, cancer. It has an average resistance to scab, rhizoctoniosis.

Read also about Alternaria, fusarium, late blight of tops and tubers, verticillous wilt.

Of the pests prone to attack by butterfly scoop caterpillars. Such insects cause damage to the leaves and the fruit itself. During the growing season they can penetrate the stem. In the branches of the bushes, they gnaw through small tunnels.

Then scoops get over to the tubers. Pests cause the multiplication of microorganisms that cause decay. They cause irreparable damage. It is possible to get rid of the pest with the help of chemical means "Tsimbush" and "Detsis".

The Colorado potato beetle and its larvae, bears, wireworms, potato moths, aphids, spider mites, and cicadas can cause no less damage to the garden.

About each of them and the measures of struggle you can read in detail on our website.

The Cardinal potato variety is known to amateur gardeners for its remarkable ability to tolerate drought. It is grown in open field. It has excellent keeping quality. It has excellent taste. Does not fall apart. It is recommended for use for people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Read also interesting articles about different ways of growing potatoes: modern Dutch technology, the specifics of growing early varieties. Alternative methods: under straw, in bags, in barrels, in boxes.

Below in the table you will find links to articles on potato varieties ripening at different times:

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