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Medium early potatoes of the Courage variety are gaining popularity due to their taste characteristics, due to the high percentage of starch. Farmers choose the variety because of its disease resistance.
Origin story
The potato variety Courage belongs to the well-known Dutch company HZPC Holland B.V. The variety has been registered in Russia since 2007 and is recommended for all central regions. Now the seeds of the variety are offered by a number of farms from the Leningrad, Omsk, Kirov regions, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Udmurtia.
Description and characteristics
Growing season | Before the beginning of ripening 75 days, the phase of technical ripeness 80-90 days |
Aboveground part | Stems are medium-sized and tall, straight and semi-erect. Leaves are medium and large, slightly wavy along the edge. The flowers are red-violet |
Tubers | Rounded oval, few eyes, moderately deep |
Peel | Smooth, reddish |
Pulp | Light yellow color, dense structure |
Starch content | 13,0-19,9% |
Dry matter content | 22-23% |
Weight of marketable tubers | 100-145 g |
Commodity exit | 83-99% |
Number in the nest | 6-9 pieces |
Yield | 159-270 c / ha, maximum - 435 c / ha |
Rest period during storage | 91% |
Features of vegetation | Drought tolerance |
Disease resistance | It is immune to potato cancer, scab and virus, does not become infected with golden nematode. Moderately susceptible to late blight of tubers - 5 points, for green mass - 3 points |
The taste of Kurazh potatoes is rated as good and excellent. The tubers are boiled and retain a pleasant light color after heat treatment. True, not all vegetable growers agree that Courage is crumbly potatoes. This property of tubers depends largely on the variety, but also on the weather and feeding:
- Too much fertilizer increases the mass of the tuber, and the starch does not have time to form;
- There is more starch in those tubers that developed mainly in dry weather.
Tubers of the Kurazh variety tolerate mechanical damage without darkening the pulp, and are subject to long-distance transportation. Suitable for mashed potatoes, making chips, starch.
Advantages and disadvantages
Dignity | disadvantages |
Excellent consumer qualities: smooth tubers, pleasant taste, starchiness | Shorter shelf life than other early varieties |
Transportability |
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Drought tolerance | Rapid yield decline if planting material is of low reproduction |
Immunity to a number of dangerous cultural diseases | Susceptibility of foliage to late blight |
Landing
Potatoes of the Kurazh variety are planted in April or May, when the soil warms up to + 8 ° C to the depth of the hole - up to 8-10 cm. Tubers selected for planting weigh an average of 50-70 g; small ones are also used, from 25-30 g, but healthy, without damage. Starting from the middle or end of March, the planting material is sorted out after storage and germinated. The temperature in the room where the potato vernalization takes place is 12-15 ° С. The sprouts grow 1-2 cm. Large light sprouts can break when planted. So that they do not overgrow, you cannot keep the seed potatoes Courage for a long time at temperatures above 16 ° C.
- The optimal layout of potato nests: 60-70 x 30-35 cm;
- The best predecessors are all cereals and legumes, perennial and annual grasses;
- On sandy soils, courage potatoes are well planted after lupine;
- The plots where sunflower were grown last year are too depleted.Potatoes are planted on them only after the autumn application of a complex of fertilizers.
Care
The Kurazh variety is drought-resistant. The plant can thrive during short periods of heat, but during prolonged drought, the potatoes must be watered. The plant especially needs moisture in the budding phase and after flowering. In very hot periods, the bush requires 12-20 liters of water, in normal weather - 3-6 liters. The area with Kurazh potatoes is regularly cleaned of weeds and loosen the ground, especially after watering and rains, so that a crust does not form on the surface of the soil. Air is needed by the roots of plants for normal life.
Hilling and feeding
Potatoes Kurazh spud 2-3 times after rains or watering before flowering. The first hilling is possible even during planting, when the ridge is formed, which will protect the seedlings from late frosts. Usually, potatoes begin to spud when the sprouts rise to 10-12 cm.
With a weak development of the foliage at this time, foliar dressing is carried out. At the beginning of the growth of potatoes, the Kurazh variety is fertilized with urea, ammonium nitrate, potassium sulfate. The second time you can carry out foliar feeding or fertilize with mineral complexes.
Diseases and pests
Diseases / pests | Signs | Treatment |
Late blight | There are dark spots on the leaves, which later become covered with a gray bloom. In cool weather, not higher than + 10 ° C, the fungus captures the entire area in a matter of days. Later tubers are affected and rotted | Spraying germinated tubers with growth stimulants, which enables the Courage potatoes to develop faster to avoid infection. Preventive treatment with fungicides. Burning off the remnants of the stems |
Alternaria | Dark dry spots on the leaves in dry weather, with a lack of moisture, spread to the stem, the plant dries up. Rotten spots on the tubers. Productivity decreases due to the death of the green part | The disease often affects tomatoes, so potatoes are not planted nearby. Fungicide treatment. The stems are harvested and burned. The disease is provoked by an imbalance between an insufficient amount of nitrogen and potassium in the soil and an excess of phosphorus |
Verticillosis | It develops at a temperature of 17-22 ° C, in the flowering phase. The leaves turn yellow, curl. The plant dies. Sometimes the disease manifests itself already on the shoots. Wilted tubers with lesions | Compliance with crop rotation. The stems are mowed 10 days before harvesting. Tubers are dried and sorted out before storage. |
Wireworm | Click beetle larva that damages tubers and roots | Areas of wheatgrass are destroyed on which the pest lives. In early spring, bait is laid out: 3 tubers per 1 sq. m |
Harvesting
Kurazh potato stalks are mowed 7-10 days before harvesting for better ripening and prevention of possible infection. After digging, they are dried for several hours in the field, then removed to a dark room. Before storage, they are sorted out again.
Conclusion
The universal potato variety Courage attracts with its resistance to dangerous and common diseases. The variety is suitable for growing on private farms. In large volumes, potatoes are in demand at processing plants.
