Each farmer or gardener allocates in his summer cottage a place for planting potatoes. But which variety is right for you?
To find out, you need to read many articles about different varieties of potatoes.
This article describes the Spring variety, which has become widespread in different regions recently.
Spring is one of the earliest ripened potato varieties, having advantages over other varieties. But first things first.
Variety description
Grade name | Spring |
general characteristics | ultra early class tableware |
Gestation period | 60-70 days |
Starch content | 11-15% |
Mass of commercial tubers | 80-140 gr |
The number of tubers in the bush | 8-14 |
Yield | 270-380 c / ha |
Consumer quality | average taste, poor cooking quality, suitable for cooking any dishes |
Recumbency | 93% |
Skin color | white |
Pulp color | white |
Preferred growing regions | Volgo-Vyatka, Ural, East Siberian, Far Eastern |
Disease resistance | moderately resistant to scab, Alternaria and potato viruses, susceptible to late blight |
Features of growing | loves fertilizer |
Originator | Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture, LLC SF "League" (Russia) |
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Characteristics of potato Spring
The variety of this potato is distributed in the central and southern regions of Russia, also has distribution in Moldova and Ukraine. Spring is characterized by high yield and its early ripeness. What is important, this variety has good taste for early ripening variety.
Compare the yield of this variety with others, you can refer to the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Kubanka | up to 220 kg / ha |
Felox | 550-600 c / ha |
Blue-eyed | up to 500 kg / ha |
Pretty boy | 170-280 kg / ha |
Red scarlett | up to 400 kg / ha |
Borovichok | 200-250 centners / ha |
Bullfinch | 180-270 c / ha |
Kamensky | 500-550 c / ha |
Colomba | 220-420 c / ha |
Spring | 270-380 c / ha |
The purpose of such potatoes - table. Used for cooking different foods because the starch content is low.
In the table below you will find data on the content of starch in different varieties of potatoes:
Grade name | Starch content |
Manifesto | 11-15% |
Tiras | 10-15% |
Elizabeth | 13-14% |
Vega | 10-16% |
Lugovskoy | 12-19% |
Romano | 14-17% |
Santa | 10-14% |
Tuleyevsky | 14-16% |
Gypsy | 12-14% |
Fairy tale | 14-17% |
During the drought may be no bloom. Plant and grow potatoes need to open ground. To care for the plant, it is enough to loosen the soil and remove the weeds in time. Mulching will help in weed control.
Among the agrotechnical techniques, you can also apply additional watering, hilling, fertilizers. How to feed the plants, when and how to apply fertilizer and whether it should be done during planting, read the additional articles on the site.
We bring to your attention detailed articles about how and why herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are used.
There are many ways to grow potatoes. We have prepared for you a series of articles on Dutch technology, as well as on growing in barrels, in bags, under straw, in boxes and from seeds.
Diseases and pests
The main advantage of Spring is the resistance to such diseases.:
- crayfish;
- nematode;
- late blight;
- fusarium and verticillous wilting;
- bacterial diseases;
- infection with pathogenic fungi.
But the variety is moderately prone to viruses and scab. Potato bushes Spring is medium height, with small green leaves. The flowers have a pale red-purple color.
With regard to the storage of this potato, the variety is quite drowsy. Read more about the rules, terms, temperature and storage problems in the materials of the site. You can also find information about storage in the winter, in drawers and on the balcony, in the refrigerator and cleaned.
This was basic information about the Spring variety. This early potato has valuable qualities for its variety:
- early maturity;
- resistance to many diseases;
- high yield;
- marketability.
If you need early ripe potatoes, Springtime, the forty-days-old potato, is a good choice, both for your own consumption and for growing on a business project scale.
We also suggest that you familiarize yourself with potato varieties that have different ripening terms:
Middle late | Medium early | Mid-season |
Vector | Gingerbread Man | Giant |
Mozart | Fairy tale | Tuscany |
Sifra | Ilinsky | Yanka |
Dolphin | Lugovskoy | Purple Haze |
Crane | Santa | Openwork |
Rogneda | Ivan da Shura | Desiree |
Lasock | Colombo | Santana | Aurora | Manifesto | Typhoon | Skarb | Innovator | Alvar | Magician | Crown | Breeze |