Popular and strong potato "Krasa": description of the variety, photo

Krasa potato is widely demanded among gardeners, due to its high yield and productivity, excellent keeping quality, as well as excellent taste.

You can get acquainted with this variety better with the help of our article, because we have prepared for you a description of it with photos, main characteristics and features of agricultural technology. And also all about the propensity to diseases and the defeat of pests.

Specifications

Krasa potato belongs to medium-late varieties, since its ripening period is from 80 to 100 days. It can be grown in all regions of the Russian Federation. Potato variety Krasa is characterized by excellent taste and high commodity characteristics of root crops. This table potato is characterized by high yield..

It easily tolerates drought and various mechanical damage, and also shows high resistance to all known diseases. Best of all this vegetable will grow in light soil with good breathability. This variety is characterized by strong erect bushes with a strong and massive stem part. They are covered with green leaves and have medium-sized corollas. Each nest usually forms from 6 to 8 tubers.

Krasa Potatoes: variety description

Potato Krasa has oval tubers, whose weight ranges from 250 to 300 grams. They are covered with a smooth peel of red color with small eyes, under which creamy pulp with high starch content hides.

Krasa Potatoes is a variety of European breeding, which was left in the XXI century.

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

A photo

See below: potato Krasa photo

Features of growing and storage

Sowing seed potatoes Krasa on seedlings carried out in February or in early March. Before sowing, the seeds need to soak for two days in water. For growing seedlings should prepare a special soil, which will consist of one part of the soil and four parts of peat with complex fertilizers.

Read more about how to feed potatoes, when and how to apply fertilizers, which ones are the best, how to do it properly when planting.

Spread the seeds should be distributed on the ground and sprinkled with sand. The optimum temperature for sprouting seedlings is a temperature of 20 to 24 degrees Celsius. In autumn, one should dig up the soil on the bayonet of a shovel and introduce complex fertilizers into it. The distance between rows of potatoes should be from 60 to 70 centimeters.

Approximately a week before planting, the tubers of potatoes should be placed in a warm place. When planting tubers is recommended to make a nitrophore.

The first time after planting the garden should not be watered, since during this period the root system of the shrubs is laid. However, subsequent watering should be regular.

As soon as you notice the first shoots, be sure to feed the plants with water-soluble nitrogen and potash fertilizers. Harvesting is usually done in early August.

As for agrotechnical techniques, the most standard ones can be used: hilling manually or with the help of a walk-behind tractor, mulching, watering.

This potato is stored well, especially under all conditions.

From the articles of our site you will learn in detail about the time and temperature of storage, about possible problems and what conditions are created in vegetable stores.

And also about how to store potatoes in the winter, in the apartment and in the cellar, on the balcony and in the boxes, in the refrigerator and in peeled form.

The quality of this grade is 95%.

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

Diseases and pests

Krasa Potatoes are not susceptible to diseases and pests, however, you can make preventive treatments of plants with fungicides and insecticides.

Also, you may be useful information about the most common diseases of the nightshade: Alternaria, blight, Fusarium, scab, cancer, verticillis.

And about the pests: Colorado potato beetle, medvedki, potato moth, wireworm.

Proper care of potatoes of the above varieties is guaranteed to provide you rich harvest of delicious root vegetableswhich you can use both for personal consumption and for sale.

Read also interesting and useful articles about how to grow potatoes: Dutch technology, without weeding and hilling, under straw, from seeds, in bags, in barrels, in boxes.

You may be interested to know in which countries potatoes are most grown, which varieties are popular in Russia, how to grow early varieties and how to turn this process into a business.

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

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