When gardeners are stocked with planting material for growing potatoes, then, first of all, they are guided by the desired time of harvesting and taste. The following are considered indicators of vegetable culture, such as starchiness, productivity and keeping quality. The last two must be considered if you plan to produce long-term storage of potatoes. The Belarusian breeze variety is very popular - potatoes, which are well preserved and meet high taste requirements.
Grade description
Knowing the characteristics of each variety of vegetable culture is important. "Breeze" - a potato, the description of which characterizes it as a mid-early variety of table destination. Bushes are of medium height. The leaves of the intermediate type are large and bright green, with a slight wavy edges. Spectacular red-violet whisk of small sizes. Potato tubers are distinguished by an almost regular oval shape and a few eyes of medium depth. The flesh of the vegetable is yellow, the light brown peel is slightly rough.
Mature tubers weigh on average 97-154 grams. The starch content is about 16%. Marketability - 83-98%. Dishes prepared from this root variety have a pleasant sweet taste.
Potato variety "breeze" is resistant to various diseases, in particular to the causative agent of potato cancer, wrinkled and banded mosaic. It is not prone to foliage twisting. Of the diseases to which the variety is susceptible, one can name the golden potato cyst-forming nematode.
Economic characteristics of the variety
- Middle early ripening.
- Tops are developing quite intensively, especially at the beginning of the growing season.
- Large tubers of 8-12 pieces from a potato bush are resistant to accidental mechanical damage, keeping quality during storage is 97%.
- The yield of the root crop reaches 62.4 tons, collected from one hectare of land.
- “Breeze” - potatoes with good consumer qualities: excellent taste and poor digestibility of the product, corresponding to type B.
- High resistance to diseases characteristic of this vegetable crop (the usual cancer type, viruses S, X, Y, M). The average degree of susceptibility to the black stalk, common scab, alternariosis, rhizoctoniasis, late blight of tubers and foliage, virus L.
Morphological features
"Breeze" - potatoes with certain morphological characteristics, which include the following:
- semi-upright intermediate plant type;
- middle light germ with a spherical red-violet base and a large strongly pubescent apex;
- multiple root tubercles;
- short lateral processes;
- slightly colored stems have an average thickness;
- leaves are large, intermediate, with large lobes and medium venation;
- potato inflorescences are characterized by average sizes and not too many flowers;
- corolla - red-violet;
- oval breeze tubers with medium depth eyes;
- light-mesh peel is light, and the edible core is yellow;
- early tuberization, indicative marketability and attractive appearance.
Benefits
Fans of early and mid-early varieties will appreciate the "breeze" - table potatoes, tasty and not too boiled. This vegetable crop will not cause gardeners too much trouble in cultivation and care, but it will bring joy with its excellent productivity.
The “breeze” is characterized by a rapid accumulation of the crop in the first half of development. Commodity yield is 160-395 centners of root crops per hectare of land.
The special tastes of the Belarusian breeze potato variety are largely due to the starch content in its nutritious tubers, which is about 16%.
The totality of all the above signs and characteristics of the root crop makes it possible to talk about it as a variety that is well grown both in industrial volumes and in a personal garden.