Potato Giant

Potato Giant: variety description and characteristics

The Giant potato has semi-erect trunks and has a well-developed root system. The leaves are rather large, dark green in color, dull, have a slight waviness along the edge. Blooms for a short time. During flowering, flowers appear, which have a small size of red-purple color. The tubers have a round-oval shape, the mass of one tuber can reach 140 g. The number of eyes is small. The flesh of the Giant potato has a creamy hue, it has a wonderful taste. A large degree of starch from 15-19%. It has good resistance to many diseases.

Seed potatoes Giant: photo of the variety

Potato Giant: variety reviews

Judging by the numerous reviews of the Giant potato, its undoubted advantage is its excellent appearance, namely, the tubers of the variety are large in size and have an ideal even shape. When peeling the Velikan potato, it does not change its color, and when cooking, the potato does not boil and retains its shape and amazing taste.

Regarding the tubers of the Giant potato, the gardeners' reviews are also positive:

• Seed tubers are resistant to degeneration.
• They tolerate drought and high temperatures well.
• They have a high yield.
• Excellent keeping quality of the crop (until the end of storage, 97% of tubers retain their appearance and taste).

How to plant giant potatoes

Before planting Giant potatoes, it is imperative to prepare the soil. It is necessary to dig up and add fertilizer in the fall or spring. During the autumn preparation, the summer cottage needs to be dug well, humus (at the rate of 1-1.5 buckets per 1 sq. layers. If you are preparing the soil in the spring, then you need to dig it up and add fertilizer about 2 weeks before you start planting the tubers. Use mineral fertilizers.

Seed potatoes Giant: photo of the variety

Correct care

A pleasant point is that the Giant seed potato variety does not require special care and attention. To obtain a good harvest, it is sometimes necessary to water, loosen, huddle and add top dressing. It is necessary to water the Giant potatoes three times: before the first hilling, before flowering, after flowering. you need to water so that the water reaches the very roots. After the soil dries up, loosen the soil with gentle movements, the main thing is not to hurt the roots.

If, during the flowering of the Giant potato, the weather conditions are dry and hot, then you need to water the potatoes a little more often. The first time hilling should be done when the young bushes reach about 20 cm. The combs need to be trimmed several times. Raise and expand the ridges as the bush grows. It is important that the hilling of the variety must be carried out after you start laying the tubers.

As a top dressing, both organic and mineral fertilizers are well suited. Both root and foliar feeding will do. for the first time, feeding should be done when you notice the first shoots. In the second top dressing - before flowering, you need to remove nitrogen, but add phosphorus, in the third top dressing there should be potassium.

Seed potatoes Giant: photo of the variety

Diseases and insect pests

The main problem that can be faced when growing this variety is nematode... When it appears, you should not wait for the harvest. It will not be. Unfortunately, if the nematode has already infected the potatoes, then there are no measures to combat it. Therefore, take preventive measures: at least 30 days before planting, nematicides must be added to the soil. You cannot use them when the potatoes have already begun to bloom. Also, with the help of fungicides, it is necessary to process the planting from beetles, beetles, wireworms, potato moths.

How and when to harvest

You can harvest the Giant potato variety 3 months after planting in the garden. The tops should begin to turn yellow and dry. It is these signs that will mean that the growing season and the formation of tubers has come to an end. You need to dig out the potato tubers with a shovel, but if the weather is damp, use a pitchfork. If the weather is good, then the harvested crop for drying must be laid out right on the garden bed, but if weather conditions do not allow, then collect and take it to a dry place. After the Giant potato dries out, it must be sorted out. Those tubers that are good, without damage, are removed in special boxes and put in storage.

The Giant potato variety has appeared quite recently, but has already managed to establish itself as a promising variety. He does not require special care for himself and at the same time brings a good harvest of large and even potatoes.