The high-yielding and early variety of Labella potatoes is characterized by keeping quality, high quality fruits and a minimum percentage of marriage. These characteristics made it suitable for cultivation in industrial volumes, on farm and personal plots.
Grade history
Potato Labella is the result of the work of breeders of a large German company Solana, which specializes in breeding high-yielding modern hybrids of various cultures. The variety was introduced to the Russian State Register in 2011. Zoned for the Central Black Earth, Central, North Caucasus, Volga-Vyatka, Far Eastern regions. Recommended for industrial and farming enterprises. Landing on personal sites is allowed.
The variety is good for processing. It has excellent keeping quality: no re-sorting after harvesting is required.
Grade description
Potatoes of the Labella variety tolerate adverse weather conditions, heat and short drought. Productivity is quite high - from one hundredth you can collect up to 300 kg of selected tubers. The first dig up already in early June. The variety reaches maximum productivity at the very end of the growing season.
Labella potato bushes are compact, low, upright, without spreading branches. The leaves are dark green, medium in size, with slightly wavy edges. Small purple flowers with a pink tint are collected in neat corollas. The plant has a well-developed root system. Each bush of Labella potatoes (reviews of vegetable growers confirm this) gives up to fourteen rather large potatoes, non-commodity trifle is found in minimal quantities.
The variety does not need frequent watering. Potato Labella needs light sandy soil. To increase productivity, you should make balanced mineral fertilizing at the beginning of the season. The variety is not very picky about care, beginner gardeners will be able to cope with it.
Potato Labella, the description of which is included in all textbooks on vegetable growing, is resistant to most typical for nightshade diseases. It infrequently affects potato cancer, tuber rot and viruses. Very rarely tolerates late blight. The variety is still quite young, so the tubers do not degenerate. It is allowed for sowing to use a crop that is harvested independently.
Taste qualities
This is one of the main advantages of this variety. Labella potatoes have a great taste: quite rich, slightly sweet, not watery. When cooking, the tubers do not darken. Potatoes can be cooked, fried, baked - it keeps its shape well.
Soil preparation before planting
It begins to cook immediately after the harvest. Carefully select all tubers from the ground to prevent infection. Add phosphoric and potassium preparations to the soil. In the spring, cultivation, the introduction of nitrogen-containing fertilizers: urea or ammonium nitrate is necessary. For a better crop, plant not only small tubers, but also large and medium ones, cut into several segments. To prevent them from rotting, cut them just before planting.
Landing
Potatoes are planted in rows at a distance of not less than seventy centimeters. Ten days after planting, hilling is carried out with the formation of ridges. The plot on which Labella potatoes are planted is watered three times and twice dug. With prolonged drought, an increase in watering is allowed. In between plantings, these lands should rest. Phacelia or Pancake week radish can be used as siderates.
During the growth and development of bushes, note the strongest and most developed plants: they will become seed in the coming year. Labella potatoes are resistant to mechanical damage. Tubers that have been damaged by a combine or chopper heal wounds very quickly. They have an excellent trade dress, regardless of the method of cleaning.
After harvesting, the potatoes are laid out on the furrows to dry. If the weather is cloudy, then tubers should be dried under a canopy. Labella is well kept in a cool, dry place.
Plant care
Hilling helps to form additional underground shoots (stolons), increases the quantity and quality of tubers. This is an effective plant protection against spring return frosts.
Loosening
The procedure is necessary to ensure access to air tubers and the removal of small weeds. This variety needs early, shallow cultivation with a rake.
Top dressing
The first time fertilizers are applied during planting potatoes. Use urea (one tablespoon) or a special drug "Solution", which is diluted in ten liters of water. The following dressing is carried out during the budding period of the plant. This requires the following composition:
- potassium sulfate - a tablespoon;
- ash - three spoons;
- water - ten liters.
The third feeding is carried out during flowering, it will accelerate the formation of tubers. It is advisable to use a solution of bird droppings or mullein. All top dressing is carried out after watering or rain.
Watering
Experts recommend watering potato bushes only in drought. It will take 12-15 liters of water per bush.
Protective measures
They are carried out if there are signs of the disease or the threat of their spread to other bushes. Good results are demonstrated by spraying the tops with a mixture based on copper chloride or Bordeaux liquid with the addition of superphosphate.
It is important to correctly determine the timing of the harvest. Untimely holding can lead not only to a decrease in the quality of tubers, but also to large losses of products.
Diseases and Pests
A feature of this variety is resistance to most diseases characteristic of potatoes. For the prevention of planting should be treated with herbicides once. In case of infection of the plant, it is necessary to mark damaged bushes: they are unsuitable for use as seed. The tubers of these plants are dug up first. Leaves are cut and burned.
Labella potatoes can be affected by pests. Especially dangerous for him are wireworms (larvae of nutcracker beetles) and Colorado beetles. For prevention, you should carefully select all potato fines from the soil during harvesting. The fact is that, decomposing, it turns into a breeding ground for pests. Every three to five years, growing areas are changed.
Reviews
Labella is recognized by potato growers as one of the best. It is resistant to many diseases, to viral lesions. It is characterized by stably high productivity. Gardeners believe that this variety, which brings a high-quality crop and does not require complicated maintenance, practically does not have too small, as well as too large tubers. In addition, many note the excellent taste and keeping quality of Labella.