Rosara German Potatoes: Early Variety, Unpretentious Care

Potato varieties Rozara long and appreciated by many gardeners and consumers. It can be grown in most climatic zones, it is unpretentious in the care.

Bred by German breeders, Rozar’s table variety pleases early maturity, high yields, and excellent taste.

And also steadily resists all sorts of diseases.

Variety description

Light or dark red tubers of a root crop have slightly rough thin skin with small eyes. The flesh of the vegetable in the cut is yellow. The oblong, sometimes teardrop-shaped forms of 80-150 gram potato tubers are adapted for long-term storage and can tolerate even long-distance transportation.

Read all about storing potatoes: timing, how to do it in the winter, whether it can be stored in boxes, in the refrigerator and what to do with the peeled roots.

The plant is a slightly sprawling low shrub with a moderately growing, large green tops and red-violet corolla.

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Specifications

Rosar's potatoes are adapted to tolerate drought and high humidity, a sharp cooling, so it can be grown in almost every climatic zone. Many gardeners and farms were convinced of the productivity of this variety.

On each bush usually grows from 12 to 15 tubers, and they are almost the same size. In a healthy environment, the yield is 350 - 400 kg per one hundred square. Special care helps to get higher yields.

You can compare yields with other varieties using the data from the table:

During 4 - 5 years, the crop yield is at the usual level, therefore does not require constant updating of the seed fund. Rosara refers to varieties with early ripening. Already in the second half of August, a full-fledged harvest is gathered from seeds planted in late May.

Potato lovers are attracted by excellent taste. It is weakly boiled soft, because the pulp contains a small amount of starch (up to 16%), so more often the vegetable is used boiled, used for cooking salads.

Root crop is widely used in industrial processing.

You can compare the starch content with other varieties in the table below:

Cultivation and care

Agrotechnics for this potato is not difficult. High-quality soil preparation and the right choice of landing site contribute to obtaining a rich early harvest. Rosara variety potatoes preferably planted in open open areas with sandy or light, medium loamy soils.

Landing site needs to be changed after 2 - 3 years of use. When choosing a new square, you should pay attention to the cultures that grew here in front of potatoes. Soil after cucumbers, legumes, root crops and cabbage are perfect.

Unsuitable for good growth of this vegetable will be land, where predecessors were solanaceous crops. To control weeds you can use mulching.

Autumn soil preparation has a positive effect on future yield. Experts advise composting, phosphate and potash fertilizers. When and how to apply fertilizer, as well as how to do it when planting, read additional articles.

Planted in the fall on the plot planned for potatoes oats will serve as a good way to clean the soil from fungal infections. Care should be taken to sort the seed. Landing is carried out after special preparation of seeds (germination, "hardening").

Full timely care during the cultivation period helps to obtain a good harvest. Spraying with special preparations can help.

Read in detail about the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.

We also bring to your attention a lot of useful information about different methods of growing potatoes: Dutch technology, under straw, in bags, in barrels.

Diseases and pests

Potatoes are highly resistant to various diseases. Rosara variety less exposed to late blightcommon and harmful disease of potatoes.

You can read about other common diseases in additional articles on our website:

• Alternaria
• Fusarium
• Verticillosis.
• Scab.
• Crayfish.

However, he has a very dangerous enemy that can significantly reduce and even destroy the crop, the Colorado potato beetle and its larvae. To combat this pest used a variety of methods and means, both folk and chemical.

Rozar has a lot of advantages, so it is often chosen by both farmers and gardeners - owners of a modest summer cottage.

We also offer you other varieties of potatoes with different ripening terms:

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