Planting Potatoes: An Alternative Method That Advanced Gardeners Know About
Spring has arrived, and all summer residents have energetically set to work in the garden.
Most of us are quite hardworking and patient.
When you don't live easily and for a long time, you get used to difficulties. But I want to warn many that during gardening and summer cottage work, elderly people very often have health problems, says Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Heart attacks often occur, various diseases such as radiculitis and osteochondrosis worsen, not to mention numerous injuries.
People, enjoying sunny days, often forget that when digging a garden, you need to rest from time to time, and not work like bees.
You can't overestimate your capabilities, you should always remember the good rule: "Everything is good in moderation." Working well and resting at the same time is the key to every person's health.
There are people who work and live in the old-fashioned way, without thinking at all about new technologies that make their work easier.
So it turns out that all work turns into hard work. One spring, while visiting relatives, I had to plant potatoes.
The plot was small, about three hundred square meters, and in an hour and a half I could have managed the planting alone, without rushing, getting great pleasure from this work. But here the relatives had to plant potatoes together from 10 am to 5 pm.
Why did it happen? First we dug up the ground and at the same time carried out weeds and roots on a stretcher, then we put up two pegs and pulled the rope, only after that we started planting potatoes. These pegs had to be constantly moved - I'll tell you honestly, it was just hellish work.
To my question: "Why all the trouble?" they replied: "We all plant potatoes this way."
At dinner, after hard work, I told my relatives that potatoes had not been planted using this technology for 15 years. In turn, I offered them my version of planting potatoes, which is very fast and simple.
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How to plant potatoes correctly? He plows the ground, digs holes, throws potatoes in there and fills the hole.
The hardest part of this process for those who don't have a tractor with a walk-behind tractor and a tractor is digging the ground. So I figured out how to dig the ground with a simple shovel and not tear myself.
At the beginning of May I always start planting potatoes in the beds where I planted vegetables last year. I don’t dig the soil, I just dig holes 20 x 20, fill them with ash, mix it with soil, throw in the potatoes and fill the hole. I always work slowly, enjoying the singing of birds and the fresh air. If I get tired, I immediately stop working and go to rest: I cook, read a book or watch TV.
Thanks to this planting, the potatoes grow quickly, I harvest so much that all the neighbors are simply amazed.
Many people may have a question: how to hill up potatoes when planting in virgin soil. I answer - it is as simple as peeling pears, while the potatoes are growing, it will rain more than once, so the soil in the holes is often very soft; I recommend hilling up potatoes immediately after rain.
The air after rain is always clean and pleasant, so it is always pleasant to work at such a time.
The following year, I plant potatoes not in the holes where they were before, but between the holes, thus implementing crop rotation.
Earlier we listed 4 probable reasons why tomatoes did not sprout.
