Growing potatoes is not easy. To obtain a rich harvest will require a good physical form, constant care, taking measures to prevent diseases. Everything else a variety of varieties makes you think about the correctness of the choice of a particular variety. Potatoes Aurora is suitable even for beginning gardeners , a fruitful, unpretentious variety, has excellent taste, the description and characteristics of which are given in this review.
Contents
- About grade Aurora
- Feature
- grade Description
- Yields
- Benefits
- Disadvantages
- reviews potatoes Aurora
- Growing
- step by step process of growing
- Care
- Disease resistance
- Preparations against pests and diseases
- Harvesting
About grade Aurora
Grade Aurorawas entered in the state register in 2006. Recommended for growing in almost the entire European part of Russia .
Characteristics of
The Aurora potato bushes are blooming for a short time, but very beautiful. Bushes are tall, powerful, so they have more sunlight, but at the same time they can fall apart. Constant hilling is required to maintain leaves. The leaves are light green in color, with wavy edges.
Corollas flowers are purple-red, the bloom is beautiful, but short.
Variety description
Aurora potato is a mid-season variety. Time from planting to harvest depends on the region of cultivation: in the southern regions there are approximately 70 days , in the northern ones a little more - 90 days .
It has good preservation of tubers. The variety is resistant to diseases called potato nematode and potato cancer. Resistance to a fitoftor - average.
Variety Aurora is resistant to potato cancer, golden potato nematode Basically, the mass of one potato is 100-150 grams , but there are also huge ones weighing 300-500 grams. Tubers of a gentle beige color, oblong shape. The skin is thin, smooth.
The eyes are small, barely noticeable, they interfere with potato peeling. Tuber marketability is good.
You can make any dish from the tubers, as it has excellent taste. It is for its taste that gardeners often choose it.
Yield
On average, one bush of Aurora can form up to 10 - 20 tubers. It is a rather fruitful variety. From one hectare you can get a crop equal to 300 centners of potatoes. One bush is harvested from 9 to 20 from tubers.
Benefits
Grade gained its popularity due to the following advantages :
- Excellent taste good
- yield
- Resistance to diseases
- Lovely presentation
- Good safety
Disadvantages
Potatoes Aurora belongs to the middle-classes drawbacks have been identified. A minor disadvantage is that you have to wait before eating fresh potatoes. For such purposes, the early varieties are better suited. But this is just a minor trifle, fruitful potatoes Aurora will provide the family with fragrant, crumbly potatoes for the whole winter.
Reviews of potatoes Aurora
Gardeners and gardeners growing potatoes Aurora :
Lena, Kostroma. Aurora - an excellent grade. Beautiful, tasty, not affected by disease. Sit down, you will not regret!
Larisa, Nizhnevartovsk. Soot 3 years in a row, really like it. Potatoes tasty, well boiled soft. Storage is long.
Maxim, Voronezh. We plant several years already. Enough and eat, and for sale. Buyers like its shape, attractive look and it tastes great.
Growing
Aurora is not capricious, but to get a good harvest you need to follow some of the conditions for comfortable growth.
Step-by-Step Cultivation Process of
Aurora Seed Potatoes with Sprouts Preparation of inoculum should be started one month before planting. For this seed tubers are placed in a cool and bright place.
Soil preparation usually begins in the fall. Semifinished manure is added to the soil, dug up and left until spring .It does not matter if the fall failed to fertilize the soil. In the spring when planting in the wells, you can add humus, compost or superphosphate.
The seeding depth of tubers depends on the region and temperature conditions. The warmer the climate, the deeper the wells drip. In warm regions, the depth of the hole is 13-15 cm , in cold regions - 9-10 cm .
Planting Aurora Potatoes in Open Ground Shrubs are tall, spreading, making a 60-80 cm distance between rows. Tubers neatly, in order not to damage fragile shoots, are placed in the holes and covered with 10 cm of soil.
Care
The main set of care activities includes :
- Watering
- Hilling
- Feed
When the first shoots appear, the bushes are watered through 6-7 days .Before the emergence of seedlings watering is not required, because the moisture in tubers is enough to start germination.
Aurora tolerates drought perfectly, therefore, when grown in the middle zone, in irrigation, it may not be necessary Aurora likes abundant watering. Water consumption during watering is 2-3 liters for 1 bush .It is worth watering every week before flowering begins. When the buds increase watering. Abundant soil moisture, when tubers are formed, will help increase yields. Thus, the crop is increased by one third.
Spud Aurora better as much as possible, the bushes need support. The first hilling after the appearance of the first shoots, the second when reaching the plant 15 cm .
The best feeding is liquid fermented bird droppings. It also uses urea, saltpeter for feeding.
Disease Resistance
Aurora has good disease resistance.
A terrible enemy of potatoes is late blight , from which Aurora is moderately protected. The potato is well protected from potato cancer and the golden nematode.
If you take care of potatoes, water, spud, feed, additional protection is not required.
Preparations against pests and diseases
- Potato pests - Colorado potato beetle, Medvedka. To combat them, use drugs Confidor and Medvetoks .
- From the wireworm help Prestige .
- For the prevention of brown rot in the spring before planting, the tubers are treated with Fundazol .
Prestige 
Confidor 
Medvetoks 
Fundazol Harvesting
Harvesting begins 3 months after planting. With proper care, up to 25 potatoes are harvested from one bush. Harvesting is better to start in dry weather.
Harvested potatoes are sorted, selected is stored in boxes at a temperature of +3 + 5 degrees.
Aurora potato, which does not require special care, is suitable even for inexperienced gardeners. The high yield and taste of the will delight those who chose the Aurora variety.
