Belarusian potato varieties Uladar - great taste and ease of cultivation

Uladar is a relatively young variety of table potatoes, which has excellent taste and early ripening.

It is famous for its unpretentiousness and high yields. Bred potatoes in Belarus and is considered one of the best local varieties.

It is grown on all types of soil, is not afraid of transportation, and in the southern regions it allows to collect two harvests per season.

Variety description

Root vegetable

Potato varieties Uladar has the following features:

• Peel - color varies from yellow to bright yellow. The surface is smooth, without roughness.
• Eyes - very small size, lie superficially.
• The color of the pulp is creamy yellow, yellow. During heat treatment, the shade of the pulp becomes slightly more saturated.
• Form - oval-rounded, rarely elongated-oval.
• Starch content - 12-18%.
• The average weight of tubers - 90-140 g, maximum - 180 g

You can compare the weight of tubers and starch content with other varieties in the table below:

The escape

The plant is an intermediate type bush with a height of 60-65 cm. The trunk is semi-upright with thin stalks. The leaves are medium-sized green with a slight waviness on the edge. The flowers are medium-sized light purple, sometimes red-purple hue. A separate bush forms under a 8-10 large tubers.

Specifications

Uladar potatoes were bred by agronomists of the Republic of Belarus. Today it is one of the best among table varieties of Belarusian potatoes.

Successful cultivation of this variety is produced in temperate climatic zones. It is grown mainly in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Uladar potato is valued by its characteristic qualities.:

1. Precocity. Uladar is an early ripe variety with a growing season of 70-75 days. Like other varieties of early ripeness, Uladar gives its first "young" crop 45 days after planting.
   Frequent cases of second fruiting of this variety for the season.
2. Yield. Productivity - the main distinguishing feature of the variety. At the first digging, the yield reaches 35 tons from 1 hectare of the sown area, and at the end of the growing season, the yield is 56-60 tons.
   Maximum values ​​were registered - 71 tons per 1 hectare of land. Uladar is famous for its early tuber formation and fast accumulation of the crop in the first half of the growing season.
3. Drought tolerance. Uladar tolerates not too long drought. In case of long-term dry period, it needs not abundant watering.
4. Soil requirement. Variety Uladar gives excellent performance for growing medium and light soils on the particle size distribution. Cultivation on other types of soil is also possible.
5. Using. Uladar is a high quality variety of table potatoes, suitable also for long storage. The quality of potatoes is good - 93-95%.
6. Taste qualities. On a five-point scale, Uladar deserves 4.2. During cooking, the pulp does not fall apart, remaining elastic.

   Uladar is almost immune to mechanical damage. When harvesting up to 96% of potatoes retain their presentation.

7. Disease resistance. High resistance is observed to potato cancer, potato cyst nematode, banded and wrinkled mosaics. Average resistant to late blight tops and tubers, leaf curling virus.

In the table below you will find such characteristics as yield and keeping quality of different potato varieties:

We offer you a useful article on the storage of potatoes. Read all about the timing, storage in the winter, in boxes, in the fridge, of peeled tubers.

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Cultivation and care

To the main agrotechnical measures for the care of potato crops should be added increased mineral nutrition, because fertilizer leads to an increase in tuberization, and, consequently, the yield as a whole.

In the articles of our site you will find detailed information on how and when to make feeding, how to do it when planting.

So, Belarusian breeders brought out a wonderful variety of potatoes, which is becoming increasingly popular in the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Undemanding of special content of potato plantations and resistance to pests and diseases Potato variety Uladar is made popular among both potato breeders and ordinary consumers.

In the process of growing potatoes, it is often necessary to use sprays of all sorts of chemical agents for a variety of purposes.

We offer you detailed materials about why you need to use fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.

There are many ways to grow potatoes. We have prepared for you articles with information about Dutch technology, about growing under straw, in bags and in barrels.

You can also get acquainted with other varieties of potatoes that have different ripening terms:

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