Methods and steps of planting potatoes:

1. Selecting potatoes, cutting into pieces and accelerating germination

The first step of planting potatoes is to select potato seeds, and good seeds can ensure the yield of potatoes. Therefore, before planting potatoes, everyone needs to select seeds and pick out some poor quality ones; Whether potato seeds are of high quality or not can be judged by their size and the thickness of bud eyes. They are basically high-quality potato seeds with large size, round and full bud eyes.

after the potato seeds are selected, we need to cut them into pieces, because there will be many buds on a potato seed. If the whole potato seed is planted, many seedlings will be produced in a seed pit, which will waste the seeds and make the seedlings too dense and affect the yield of potatoes. Therefore, it is recommended to cut all potato seeds into pieces.

Every potato seed has a top and a tail, and the bud eye at the top is the best. Therefore, when we cut potatoes, we should leave the bud eye at the top as much as possible, leaving one or two bud eyes for each seed block. As for the potatoes at the tail, we can use them or not.

When the potatoes are all cut into pieces, they will be cut into pieces. Therefore, we need to sprinkle plant ash (must be plant ash) on the potato incision to make plant ash adhere to the incision to speed up the healing of the potato wound. Finally, put the potatoes in a place, preferably a slightly damp place, and the potato pieces will sprout quickly.

Second, ploughing and applying base fertilizer to improve the land

During the period of potato germination, we will take time to turn over the plot where potatoes are to be planted, because the growth of potatoes requires particularly high soil, which needs soft and breathable soil, so when we plough the land, we need to plough it a little deeper, about 4 cm, and apply a proper amount of farm manure according to the fertility of the soil (it must be well decomposed, otherwise it will be easy.

Third, planting potatoes in different holes

After the potato pieces sprout, we can start planting potatoes (of course, we can also plant them directly after cutting them into potato pieces); Before planting potatoes, a number of pits are dug in the plot at certain intervals, and the depth of the pits is about 2 cm. Then, half a pit of farmyard manure+plant ash is sprinkled into the pits, and then a thin layer of soil is sprinkled to slightly cover the farmyard manure in the pits. Then, the potato pieces are planted, and the bud eyes are upward. Finally, the soil of about 1.5 cm is covered, and the soil is cultivated after the potatoes emerge.

Fourth, after potato seedlings emerge, thin seedlings and topdressing

After potato pieces are planted, they will emerge in about 5 days. At this time, we don't have to worry about it for the time being, because the main nutritional source of potato seedlings at this time is potato pieces, so we don't have to rush to topdressing; When the potato seedlings grow to a height of more than 15 cm, there are many leaves, so we need to start topdressing; At this time, potatoes are mainly long seedlings, so the main direction of fertilization is nitrogen fertilizer. We can use our own fermented liquid fertilizer+chicken manure fertilizer or potassium sulfate fertilizer, and the liquid fertilizer is mainly to supplement nitrogen nutrients.

When the seedlings grow to 1cm to 15cm, many potatoes may grow in a nest. We need to sparse the seedlings in time, cut off the weak seedlings in the same nest, and leave one or two strong seedlings. Don't be reluctant to give up, you will get it.

When potatoes begin to grow roots, we need to change the fertilization strategy, mainly using farmyard manure+plant ash (or chicken manure or potassium sulfate); The high yield of potatoes mainly depends on plant ash. Therefore, it is suggested that when planting potatoes, try to find some plant ash to fertilize them, and the potatoes will grow in nests.

The specific planting methods and steps of potatoes are probably these four points. The most important thing is to select seeds and good potato varieties to grow high-yield potatoes, followed by fertilizer. The base fertilizer must be sufficient, and the topdressing must be timely to avoid the lack of fertilizer for potatoes.