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- Tempting incentives for your own cultivation of potatoes
- Grow potatoes yourself succeeds easily
- Organic quality from our own garden
- Limited variety selection in the supermarket
- Determine the variety yourself
- Inexpensive seed
- Potatoes have long been able to balcony
- It could not be fresher
- Inexpensive new potatoes
- Long harvest time
- stockpiling
- Gardening with children
- Tips & Tricks
Tempting incentives for your own cultivation of potatoes
In the Saxons they are called Ärvern or Ahrborn. The Brandenburger say Knulle to her and the Palatine Grumbeere. This always means the potato. The well-known as Erdapfel crop is wonderful for your own cultivation in the garden or in the bucket.
Grow potatoes yourself succeeds easily
Space for a small or large potato is in every garden.
The effort is not too big: digging, fertilizing, pulling rows, sowing and piling up rows are easy to handle. If the harvest turns out to be rich, every gardener is proud.
Organic quality from our own garden
Potatoes from our own cultivation have organic quality. Especially if they are only supplied with organic fertilizer (horn chips) and manure. Supermarket potatoes, on the other hand, are often treated to suppress nucleation.
Limited variety selection in the supermarket
The supply of potato varieties in the supermarket is limited. Usually one has only the choice between floury, predominantly festkochenden and festkochenden potatoes. Yellow-skinned varieties are most often on offer here, red-skinned potatoes only in small quantities. A more diverse offer can be found in markets and small producers.
Determine the variety yourself
In their own cultivation, each one determines which potato variety he grows. It is selected according to taste, color, maturity and shelf life. If you have good experiences with a potato variety, you will grow it in the following years. Perhaps one of the old and rare varieties such as field blessing and Bamberg croissants or the exclusive Blue Swedes.
Inexpensive seed
Seed potatoes cost about 1 to 3 euros per kilogram. Realistic yields are in the 10-fold amount, always dependent on the growth conditions.
Practically free are seed potatoes from their own harvest. They will be covered after the harvest for the next year.
Potatoes have long been able to balcony
Potato plants have long since found their way onto balconies and roof terraces. In a sunny spot, they thrive in almost every vessel.
It could not be fresher
Directly on the table after the harvest - only with your own potatoes. A special culinary delight are new potatoes. They contain fresh vitamins and are popular because of their thin shell as jacket potatoes.
Inexpensive new potatoes
The first new potatoes are long-awaited and therefore more expensive in the supermarket. The cheaper alternative are new potatoes from our own cultivation. For a taste experience already enough a potato plant in a bucket of water on the balcony.
Long harvest time
For the self-cultivation, you can take advantage of the different degrees of maturity of tubers. If you plant side by side early, mid-early and late varieties, you can benefit from the long harvest season from June to October.
stockpiling
Once harvested and stored properly, the supply of potatoes will last for a few weeks or months, depending on the harvest. Prerequisite for this is a dry, cool and dark place.
Purchased potatoes, on the other hand, have a limited shelf life. Especially when stored in the apartment potatoes are quickly shriveled and start germs.
Gardening with children
Gardening is great fun for children. You can have your own potatoes z.Bsp. in the water bucket, plant and water and, if necessary, go for a potato beetle hunt. The tension on the harvest result is free.
Tips & Tricks
One of the most expensive potatoes in the world is "La Bonnotte", which is grown on the French Atlantic island of Noirmoutier. The secret of their taste is seaweed and seawater. The secret of their price are small quantities and short offer time.Gourmets pay up to 500 euros per kilogram.