Potatoes are one of the most cultivated crops both on an industrial scale and in summer cottages in various countries of the world. The use and great taste of potatoes made it an everyday product on our tables.
Among the many varieties it is very difficult to choose one, the best. From the variety depends on the rules of planting, care and the amount of the crop.
For suburban areas, early varieties are preferable, since they ripen before pests and diseases appear. Belarusian early potato Zorachka can be attributed to the popular and favorite varieties.
Variety description
Grade name | Zorachka |
general characteristics | early table variety of Belarusian breeding, resistant to diseases, poorly tolerant to drought |
Gestation period | 70-75 days |
Starch content | 12-14% |
Mass of commercial tubers | 90-120 g |
The number of tubers in the bush | 9-12 |
Yield | 250-320 c / ha |
Consumer quality | suitable for cooking like new potatoes |
Recumbency | 96% |
Skin color | dark yellow |
Pulp color | pale yellow |
Preferred growing regions | any type of soil and climate |
Disease resistance | resistant to nematode and cancer, moderately resistant to late blight of tops and tubers, unstable to Y-virus |
Features of growing | watering is needed |
Originator | SPC NAS of Belarus for potato and fruit-and-vegetable growing |
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Specifications
The climatic zone of cultivation are: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The yield is average, about 70 t / ha. It has good taste, early, precocious.
You can compare the yields of Zorachka potato with other varieties in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Beauty | 400-450 c / ha |
Vector | 670 c / ha |
Artemis | 220-350 c / ha |
Yanka | up to 630 c / ha |
Svitanok Kiev | up to 460 c / ha |
Santana | 160-380 c / ha |
Nevsky | 300-500 c / ha |
Taisiya | up to 460 c / ha |
Colomba | 220-420 c / ha |
Lapot | 400-500 c / ha |
Potato cultivar Zorachka table, not drought-resistant, prefers light loamy soil with a neutral PH.
Due to the low starch content, the variety is relatively resistant to mechanical damage, resistant to potato cancer, golden nematode, late blight resistance is average.
Good qualitystored from July to January at t8-10 C.
The ability to keep well is an important quality for potatoes. In the table below you will find this characteristic in different varieties:
Grade name | Stickiness |
Timo | 96% |
Arosa | 95% |
Spring | 93% |
Vineta | 87% |
Impala | 95% |
Zorachka | 96% |
Kamensky | 97% |
Latona | 90% |
Lyubava | 98% |
Luck | 88-97% |
You can learn more about the terms, temperature and storage conditions in the articles of our site. Everything about storage in winter, in boxes, on the balcony, in the refrigerator, in a purified form, and also about what problems you may encounter in the section on storage.
The bush is low, with an average stem, straight. Corolla of flowers medium, densely assembled, bluish color. The leaves are green, wavy along the edge, medium size.
Features of growing
Agrotechnika of this grade is standard. Planting Zorachka potatoes spend in the beginning of May in a sunny open area.
The best predecessors are cucumbers, carrots, cabbage, legumes, as well as perennial herbs and flax. Fresh manure under the potato is better not to make, it can lead to diseases of tubers. Compost and wood ash can be used.
Sowing scheme: the distance between tubers 30-40 cm, between the ridges - 50-60 cm. Planting depth: 7-10 cm.
Fertilizers are applied both when digging the whole area, and immediately before planting, in the wells. If the soil is acidic, add lime or dolomite. For an early variety, 100-200 grams are added to each well. peat, st.l. ash and tsp superphosphate mixed with earth.
Very often the question arises how and when to apply fertilizer. As the potato grows, 3 feedings are performed.. The first root dressing begins at the beginning of the growth of the plant. You can use a solution of 10 liters. water, st.l. urea and 2 tbsp. any universal fertilizer.
Second feeding make in the period of the formation of buds, using potassium sulfate diluted with ash.
Third dressing carried out during flowering, a solution of superphosphate and nitrophoska. At 0.5 - 1 liter under each bush, avoiding contact with the leaves.
On our site you will find detailed articles about the benefits of using fungicides and herbicides for growing potatoes.
Potato care
Potatoes - quite unpretentious culture. The main thing in the care: loosening the soil and cleaning from weeds - this will help mulching. The first loosening is carried out 10 days after planting. For the entire period of potato growth, it is necessary to conduct two hilling. The first is when the plant reaches 15–20 cm., The second, approximately in 2 weeks.
Watering - moderate, after watering necessarily loosening the soil. Before the emergence of seedlings do not conduct watering. The main thing in growing potatoes is to choose a good variety. For early consumption - precocious, for long-term storage - late.
There are many ways to grow potatoes. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with articles in our website with Dutch technology, learn everything about growing in bags, barrels, boxes or boxes without bottom, under straw and from seeds.
Diseases and pests
The variety is resistant to nematodes and cancers, moderately resistant to late blight of tops and tubers, unstable to Y-virus.
As for such common solanaceous diseases as Alternaria, Fusarium, Common Scab, Verticillium wilt, you can find detailed information about them in the articles of our website. And also all about such pests as the Colorado potato beetle, the wireworm, the bears, and ways to combat them.
Potatoes are the most necessary vegetable at each dacha, and thanks to the simplicity of cultivation, a good harvest can be achieved even for a beginner gardener, and over time, the process can be turned into a business.
Below in the table you will find links to articles on potato varieties ripening at different times:
Middle late | Medium early | Late-ripening |
Aurora | Black Prince | Nikulinsky |
Skarb | Nevsky | Asterix |
Courage | Darling | Cardinal |
Ryabinushka | Lord of the expanses | Kiwi |
Blue | Ramos | Slav |
Zhuravinka | Taisiya | Rocco |
Lasock | Lapot | Ivan da Marya | Magician | Caprice | Picasso |