Proper planting and growing potatoes by the Kizima method

The method of Galina Kizima is that there is no need to dig earth, and you are planting potatoes in a compost heap over tubers and you have a lot of healthy potatoes.

Who is Galina Kizima and why is her method so popular?

Galina Kizima wrote many books about how to grow various plants. Galina Kizima in her methodtook into account the peculiarities of potato growth, relying on their own experience of growing potatoes on six acres.

The general essence of technology

The essence of the Kizima planting method is that potatoes are not usually planted in the soil, butlay out on the ridges, without digging them, and then cover with hayand all summer torn weeds, but not covering themselves growing potatoes stalks.

How to plant and grow potatoes by the Kizima method

Preparation of planting material

Select healthy tubers that have the size of the eggs that the chicken carries. The tubers begin to prepare1, 1 month before planting.

They are washed, put in a basin, poured with clean water, having a temperature+45 degrees, and leave until the time of cooling water. They raise the potassium permanganate and gradually pour into the pelvis a little, thoroughly mixing the water and the potassium permanganate, the water should become a pink shade.

Then leavefor 15 min., drain the water, wash the potatoes, dry. This procedure removes bacteria and microbes from the skin.

Either replace the potassium permanganate solution with Phytosporin, diluting in water a small portion of Phytosporin so that the solution is almost transparent. Pour the diluted Fitosporin into a basin with tubers and water, leavefor 30 min., after drying the potatoes, in this case they do not need to be washed under water.

Club-lilies putunder the sun for 3 weeks, so that they turn green. Then in their subcutaneous layer there will be poison - solanine, and tubers will not be interesting to mice, hares, or other pests.

You can put the tubers in cans of glass and place on the windowsill, turning the banks after some time. And you can put a newspaper on the window sill and put tubers on it.

Next, the potatoesgerminate, they are removed into a box of cardboard, where they grow in the dark and warm.

Place them in 1 layer in a box of cardboard so that they do not lie close to the top, cover the newspapers with them and place one more layer on them, and then another newspaper and a third layer of potatoes. Close the box and place it on a stool near the battery. To eyes grew to sprouts, having a length of 4-5 cm, you need somewhere 2-3 weeks.

Step by step process of planting potatoes

It is common knowledge that tubers grow not on rhizomes, but on sprouts located horizontally growing at the very bottom of the stems, of which stolons are called. Stolons do not need soil, they need to black out.

There is no need to dig up the soil. Sprouted tubersspread on the virgin soil directly on the weeds.

1. Make 2 rows, observing the distance between themin, m, and spread the potatoes, retreating20-25 cm.
2. Leave empty on, 5 m from each of the rows to the aisle. That is, the width of the bed should be, -1 m, and the length do what you want. At 1 m you will have 4 tubers in one row and the same in the other.
3. If you have tubers that are smaller than the size of a chicken egg, then put them in one place2-3or you will grow too small a number of stems, so you will harvest a small crop.
4. Do not put tubers that are larger than the size of a chicken egg, since otherwise you will have a ground part to grow and the root system will not develop well. Because of this, large potatoescut along, so that there is one and the same number of sprouts on each of the halves. Let them lie for 2 days, then the slices dry, after the cut, powder ash to prevent bacteria from entering them, and then plant them.
5. The more the number of stems on the potato, the more abundant the harvest, so it is better that the number of sprouts is large. For this, on one potato7 days before planting, it is required to cut a deep transverse incision with a knifeor peel the peel in the middle of the tuber with a thin strip in the transverse direction. Then buds will germinate in the lower part of the potato and more stems will appear.

In the central regions, put a very early variety in one row, and in the other - middle ripeness. And in the north plant an early variety and the medium-early.

Care of a potato

Basic -to protect the beds from recurrent frosts. Because of this, cover the potatoes with hay, but not straw. It is not good, because it attracts mice. You can cover the ridge with dry fallen leaves. If you do not have anything, then cover the newspaper or wrapping paper, pre-cut it into pieces, crumpling. There is no need to cover the aisles.

To all this covered the garden and did not scatter,put on top of sponboid or bags. You can not use the film, since under it plantings and weeds will begin to grow.

At the end of recurrent frosts, remove the spunbob and put on the bed all the materials from which you make a compost pile: weeds, grass. Put it on hay or newspapers, but not on potato shoots. So do it all summer,hill the young shoots of potatoes not with soil, but with mown grass.

So, you do not apply mineral fertilizers and manure, do not moisten planting, because compost of weeds is 80% water, and when rotting, it stands out and flows down to the root system of potatoes.

In this case, the weeds that lie under the plantings do not grow, but perish, since they are not illuminated by the sun's rays. When the potatoes begin to bloom, tubers on the stools will start to grow. Cut the flowers, as many forces are growing on their growth and after cutting off the potatoes will put all their strength into the formation of tubers.

If you have too large a landing field, then justtear off the tops of the bushes, as soon as the bushes close. So your tops will not grow in height and 2-3 additional tubers are formed.

How and when to harvest

Just slide the compost andpick up the biggest potatoes, and then gently place the compost in place. With this collection, stolons will not get injured and will grow still tubers.

When you collect all the potatoes from the first row, put the tops to dry. In general, it is not advised to put the tops of tomatoes and potatoes into the compost pile, since it contains corned beef, but the sun's rays, precipitation and air of solonin will be destroyed. Leave all this for the winter.

The unbroken compost has weakly acidic or acidic characteristics, they are neutralized when re-cast. But potatoes can be planted in weakly acidic or acidic soil.