Unpretentious potato "Svitanok Kiev": description of the variety, characteristics and photos

"Kiev Svitanok" - table variety of potato, popular in Ukraine and Russia. Tubers have a pleasant taste, versatility, excellent keeping quality.

The variety is easy to maintain, affordable, not capricious, ideal for private and private farms.

In this article we have collected a lot of useful information about this potato, including the description of the variety, its characteristics, especially the cultivation.

Characteristic

Let us consider in more detail the potato variety “Svitanok Kievsky, a characteristic of this root crop. The potato variety “Svitanok Kievsky” is not too old, but it has proven itself well.

Recommended cultivation for personal use, as well as breeding on an industrial scale. Suitable for farms. Variety may be identified as early ripe or mid earlymuch depends on the region of cultivation.

Potato "Svitanok Kiev": description of the variety and photos

Variety potato "Kiev Svitanok" bred by Ukrainian breeders, zoned for regions with a temperate, continental, sharply continental climate. Potatoes are grown throughout Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus. In Russia, the variety has proven itself in the Urals, in Western Siberia, the Volga region.

Productivity is good from one hundred can collect from 200 to 300 kg selected tubers.The ripening time depends on the climatic conditions. In areas with a warm climate, the first tubers are dug out in June, in colder regions, the harvest time starts closer to August.

To compare the yield of this variety with others, you can refer to the table below:

Potato bush upright, low, strong. The root system is well developed.. The plant is very compact, the stems are gathered together, do not fall apart, making it easier to care for plantings. The leaves are small, dark green, the formation of green mass is moderate. Abundant flowering, beaters pale purple or reddish.

Potatoes "Kiev Svitanok" enjoys the well-deserved sympathy of gardeners for unpretentiousness, tolerance for agrotechnical errors.

Sort does not degenerate even after numerous landings, does not require updating.

Seed potatoes calmly tolerate temperature fluctuations, mild drought, excessive moisture,adverse conditions do not affect the germination and high taste of tubers.

The variety is resistant to many diseases of the nightshade.. Plants are rarely affected by cancer, late blight of the leaves and tubers, rhizoctoniosis, common scab, black leg.

The potato variety Svitanok Kievsky is ideal for culinary experiments. High starch content, proteins and minerals gives tubers a pleasant rich flavor without wateriness. After cooking, the tubers become crumbly, tender, melting in the mouth.

It is recommended for cooking, baking, stewing, mashing, various fillings, baking. Suitable for baby or diet food. Ready meals keep a nice creamy color. How to keep potatoes peeled and refrigerated, see additional articles on our site.

In the table below you will find data on the content of starch in different varieties of potatoes:

"Kiev Svitanok" - potato variety in the photo below:

Origin

The potato variety “Kievsky Svitanok” was bred by Ukrainian breeders, entered in the register in 1987. Zoned for the North-West, Central, Ural, Middle Volga, West Siberian, Far Eastern regions.

Potatoes are recommended for cultivation in personal subsidiary and farms, perhaps industrial cultivation. Tubers have good keeping quality., excellent product qualities.

"Svitanok Kiev" - a variety of potatoes suitable for sale, and you can implement it immediately after harvest, and after several months of storage. How to properly store potatoes in the winter and in boxes, what conditions and terms for this are required you will find in the articles of our website

Benefits

Among the main advantages of the variety "Kiev Svitanok":

• excellent taste of tubers;
• high starch content, trace elements, nutrients;
• good yield;
• tuber uniformity, lack of non-essential stuff;
• unpretentiousness, resistance to the vagaries of weather;
• good immunity.

No significant deficiencies in the variety.

Features of growing

Grade "Kiev Svitanok" different unpretentious, no special agrotechnical techniques he does not require. Potatoes prefer light soils on a sandy basis.

It is recommended to periodically change the fields for sowing, planting phacelia, radish or other crops that feed the soil in the free months.

Seed material does not degenerate, it can be used for several years in a row. Sort has excellent germination, does not require additional incentives.

Potatoes are planted in May, but in regions with a warm climate seeding is possible in the second half of April.

From the moment of emergence to ripening tuber passes about 70 days. However, the variety shows the highest yield after 3 months after germination.

Sort responsive to top dressing, loves moderately wet, but not wet soil. During the planting season 2-3 times fed by diluted mullein or bird droppings.

Mineral dressing is possible using ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate or superphosphate. Fertilizers need to be applied before abundant watering. About how and when to apply fertilizer, as well as how to do it when planting, read the detailed materials of our site.

Potatoes need 2-3 hillocks and frequent weeding. Not hurt and mulching.

In addition to fertilizers in the cultivation of potatoes use a variety of tools and drugs. There are many disputes about their benefits.

We bring to your attention detailed articles on how and why herbicides, fungicides and insecticides are used.

We also bring to your attention detailed materials about the most varied methods of growing potatoes: under straw, in bags, in barrels, and in Dutch technologies.

Diseases and pests

Potatoes "Svitanok Kiev" - a variety resistant to severe diseases of the nightshade: fungi, viruses, potato cancer, nematode.

For prophylaxis recommended periodically change fields for sowing, carefully harvest, choosing from the land of forgotten tubers.

Decomposing, they provoke oxidation and decay, serve as a breeding ground for insect pests. Potatoes can be affected by Colorado beetles or wireworms. Industrial and Farm it is recommended to treat the fields with herbicides before landing.

On our website you will find detailed information about such common potato diseases as Alternaria, Fusarium, Verticillis.

Svitanok Kievsky is a fruitful crop that has proven itself well in private and private farms. Large, tasty, high starch tubers suitable for sale and personal usewithout losing consumer qualities for several months.

We also suggest that you familiarize yourself with potato varieties that have different ripening terms: