The key to a high and high-quality potato crop is not only the timeliness and regularity of agricultural activities, but also the right choice of variety.
In terms of taste and marketability, compared to the others, the relatively young and quite promising Sante variety (potato) wins. The photo, fully conveying the external beauty of the tubers, cannot reflect the taste of the product, which is appreciated by the domestic consumer.
Sante in cooking
The taste of Sante potatoes is pleasant, rich, without excess wateriness and dryness. The low starch content (10.0-14.2%) leads to the preservation of a neat shape during heat treatment of a popular product. The Sante potato variety is optimally suited for the production of chips, deep-frying, baking, dressing, and stuffing.
Used for the preparation of semi-finished products on an industrial scale. Potato Sante is a real find for restaurant cuisine: it is incredibly tasty, quickly cooked and looks very attractive. In the home menu, from such a garden culture, bred in Holland, you get incredibly tasty fried potatoes, characterized by a golden crispy crust.
Potato Sante: variety description
Sante potato bush is compact enough; a medium-sized plant with erect, well-leafy stems. The leaves are small, dark green. The flowers are large, white, grouped into compact corollas. The tubers are oval or round-oval, even, with a smooth, without roughness surface; They look very neat; the average weight of each is 90-150 grams. The peel of Sante potatoes is moderately dense, smooth, evenly colored yellow. Eyes are shallow, small, inconspicuous, but numerous. The color of the pulp is light yellow; it does not darken when cutting. Thanks to its beautiful shape, Sante is ideal for sales and industrial processing.
Sante is a potato, the description of which encourages you to choose this particular crop, adapted for cultivation in Ukraine, Moldova, the middle lane and the southern part of Russia; suitable for machining and cleaning mechanically. The growing season from planting to fruit ripening is 85-90 days. Up to 20 root crops are usually located under one bush. The average yield per hectare is 570 centners. Sante potatoes are characterized by high storage rates: 92% out of 100.
Planting potatoes
Potato Sante is a thermophilic plant, therefore planting events must be started in late spring, after the threat of frost has passed and the soil has been completely warmed up. Soil must first be prepared: thoroughly loosen, select and remove from the field the remnants of last year and weeds. Before planting, it is advisable to germinate potato tubers, sprouts should not be broken off more than once. In the holes you need to put wood ash or last year's humus. The tubers are planted at a distance of 30 cm with a row spacing of 60 cm. Planting depth is 10 cm. After earthing up, high ridges must be left.
The seed material is prepared in the fall: it is collected from the most productive bushes that have not been affected by diseases and pests. Such plants are marked in advance, and the root crops collected from them go through the process of sorting, drying and separate storage.
Features of growing Sante
The optimum temperature for the development of a potato plant is +29 at moderate humidity; ideal would be the organization of drip irrigation. Before flowering, it is recommended that garden crops provide regular, plentiful watering, alternating with mineral (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus) and organic (bird droppings or bred mullein) top dressings. An excess of fertilizers with a high nitrogen content will lead to an active increase in the aerial mass, which will negatively affect root crops: the latter will simply stop growing. After harvesting, potato tubers must be dried.
Potato Sante: the benefits of the variety
Sante Potato Benefits:
- universality of root crops;
- high taste and marketability;
- good yield;
- friendly simultaneous ripening;
- resistance to mechanical damage;
- good storage quality;
- drought tolerance;
- undemanding care;
- medium disease resistance;
- not prone to degeneration, but once every 5-6 years, updating of the seed material is recommended.
Diseases and Pests
Sante potatoes are highly resistant to common scab, potato cancer, cyst-forming nematode; moderately susceptible to twisting of leaves, fusarium, black leg and late blight on tops (tubers are rarely affected). For prophylactic purposes, it is recommended to treat the culture with copper-containing preparations.
Also, the cultivation area should be changed annually, using legumes, pumpkins, cucumbers, cabbage, meadow herbs as precursors. Fields under steam (on vacation) can be sown with fatselia or
oil radish. Aphids and Colorado potato beetles - scary potato enemies - can be destroyed by spraying with insecticidal drugs. Timely weeding and hilling will help reduce the likelihood of harmful insects. Preplant planting of potato tubers will protect the plant from damage by wireworms.