Potatoes Sante: Description of the variety

The key to high and high-quality potato harvest is not only the timeliness and regularity of agrotechnical activities, but also the right choice of variety. On the taste and commodity characteristics, the relatively young and fairly promising variety of Sante (potatoes) is noticeably winning against the others. Photo, fully transferring the external beauty of tubers, can not reflect the taste of the product, which is appreciated by the domestic consumer.

Sante in Cooking

The taste of Santa's potatoes is pleasant, saturated, without excess wateriness and dryness. The low content of starch (10.0-14.2%) causes the preservation of a neat shape when heat treating a popular product. The potato variety of Sante is ideally suited for the production of chips, deep-frying, baking, filling the first courses and stuffing. Used for preparing semi-finished products on an industrial scale. Potatoes Sante - a real find for restaurant cuisine: incredibly tasty, quickly prepared and very attractive looks. In the home menu from such a garden culture, bred in Holland, you get an incredibly tasty fried potato, characterized by a golden crust.

Potatoes Sante: Description of the variety

Potato potato Sante is compact enough; A plant of medium size, with erect, well-leafy stems. Leaves are small, dark green in color. The flowers are large, white, grouped into compact corollas. Tubers oval or round-oval, even, with a smooth surface without roughness; They look very neat; The average weight of each 90-150 grams. Peel potatoes Sante moderately dense, smooth, evenly colored yellow. The eyes are shallow, shallow, unobtrusive, but numerous. The color of the pulp is light yellow, it does not darken when cutting. Thanks to the beautiful form of Santa, it is ideal for realization and industrial processing.

Sante - potato, the description of which prompts to stop the choice on this culture, adapted for cultivation in Ukraine, Moldova, the middle belt and southern Russia; Suitable for machining and mechanical cleaning. The vegetative period from the moment of planting to ripening of fruits is 85-90 days. Under one bush, usually up to 20 roots. The average yield from 1 hectare is 570 quintals. Potato Sante is characterized by high storage rates: 92% of the storage capacity of 100.

Planting potatoes

Potato Sante is a plant that is heat-loving, so it is required to begin planting activities in late spring, after passing the threat of frosts and full warming of the soil. Primer must be prepared beforehand: carefully rinse, select and remove from the field the remains of last year and weed plants. Before planting, potato tubers should be germinated, sprouts should not be broken more than once. In the holes it is necessary to decompose wood ash or last year's humus. The tubers are planted at a distance of 30 cm with a row spacing of 60 cm. The depth of planting is 10 cm. After hilling, it is necessary to leave high ridges.

Seed is prepared from autumn: it is collected from the most productive bushes, which were not affected by diseases and pests. Such plants are marked in advance, and the roots collected from them are subjected to sorting, drying and separate storage.

Features of Sante cultivation

The optimum temperature for the development of the potato plant is +29 ^о С at moderate humidity; Ideal will be the organization of watering in a drip fashion. Before the flowering of garden crops, it is recommended to provide regular abundant watering, alternating with mineral water (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus) and organic (bird droppings or diluted mullein) by feeding. An excess of fertilizers with a high nitrogen content will lead to an active growth of the aboveground mass, which will negatively affect the root crops: the latter will simply stop in growth. After harvesting, the potato tubers must be dried.

Potatoes Sante: the advantages of variety

Advantages of potatoes Sante:

• Universality of root crops;
• High taste and commercial qualities;
• Good yield;
• Simultaneous simultaneous maturation;
• Resistance to mechanical damage;
• Good storage during storage;
• Drought resistance;
• Undemanding care;
• Medium resistance to diseases;
• Not prone to degeneration, but 1 time in 5-6 years is recommended to update the seed material.

Diseases and pests

Potato Sante is highly resistant to common scab, potato cancer, cyst-forming nematode; Moderately susceptible to leaf twisting, Fusarium, black leg and late blight on the tops (tubers are rarely affected). For preventive purposes, culture is recommended to be treated with medesoderzhaschimi drugs. Also, the cultivation site should be changed annually, using legumes, pumpkin, cucumbers, cabbage, meadow grasses as precursors. Fields under the steam (on vacation) can be sown with a phacelia or olive radish. Tlou and Colorado beetles - terrible potato enemies - can be destroyed by spraying with insecticide drugs. Timely carrying out propolok and hilling will help reduce the likelihood of harmful insects. Presowing processing of potato tubers will protect the plant from damage by the wireworm.