Description of the unique Gurman potato variety: characteristics and photos

No matter how tasty or high-quality a potato variety is, they will hardly be able to surprise anyone.

However, there is a group of potato varieties that differ from the rest not only in taste data or peculiarities of care, but also exotic appearance.

It is to this type of potato and our guest today, - "Gourmet".

Specifications

"Gourmet" refers to the "color" species potatoes with medium early ripening.

The vegetation period lasts for 75 - 80 days from the moment of the appearance of the first shoots.

It was created relatively recently in Ukraine by breeding several other varieties (detailed information on its selection is not being distributed yet), has not yet been included in the State Register of the Russian Federation.

However, this does not prevent many gardeners from growing it in their plots today.

It has good yield from one hectare of crops can be collected up to 40 tons of potatoes. Longevity also did not disappoint, you can not be afraid to leave it in the cellar for the winter.

You can compare the Gourmet yields with other varieties in the table below:

Potato "Gourmet": description of the variety and photos

Truly a variety of potatoes "Gourmet" from many other varieties, distinguish tubers. No matter how surprising it may sound, but their skin has a dark purple color and a rather dense thickness. Externally, the fruits of "Gourmet" more resemble beets than regular potatoes.

Only their elongated oval shape gives out belonging to the latter.The eyes are rare and have a surface landing. Tubers grow to medium size, the weight of a single commodity tuber is usually 90 - 110 g.

The flesh also has an exotic purple-white color. (white color dominates at the edges, and purple in the middle) and unique table properties. We will talk about them in more detail in the next section, and here we only note that starch content in the fruits of this potato very little.

You can compare the mass of tubers and starch content with other varieties using the table below:

The bushes are semi-upright and grow to medium height, mostly their length does not exceed 70 cm. The leaves are small and light green. During flowering, the plant is covered with flowers with white corollas and characteristic black stamens. Under one bush usually germinates on 12 - 14 root crops.

Visually familiarize yourself with the "Gourmet" potatoes in the photo below:

Special features

The first feature of “Gourmet”, of course, is its color, but if you thought that the differences were over, then you were very wrong.As already stated above, in this type of potato there is very little starch content.

The reason for this is that instead it is large amount of antioxidantsthat are so beneficial to our body. The fruits of "Gourmet" are extremely useful product, which in general has a very positive effect on human health and even rejuvenates it.

Considered a diet vegetablewhich may be included in the menu of people with diabetes or obesity. In addition, it is recommended to use for the prevention of malignant and benign tumors, ischemia, atherosclerosis, hypertension, deterioration of vision, improper metabolism.

If we talk about the agrotechnical features of the plant, then first of all it is worth noting that it is suitable for growing in temperate or arid climatic conditions.

This is due to the fact that he demanding of warm weather (temperature below 10 ° C will adversely affect the plant) and enough moisture in the soil.

Therefore, if the rain on your site was not long ago, then get ready for manual irrigation. Soils "Gourmet" prefers sandy, peaty and low loamy.

For planting it is better to select larger tubers and plant them according to the 60 x 30 scheme (the distance between the rows is 60 cm, and between the planting material in the rows is 30 cm). The depth of the digging should be about 5 - 10 cm.

As fertilizer is best superphosphate, ammonium nitrate, nitrophosphate and potassium chloride are suitable. Also, do not forget about loosening the soil, this potato does not like the formation of a crust on the surface of the soil. The rest of the care for "Gourmet" is not very different from the care of other middle-early varieties.

In addition to the use of various kinds of fertilizers in the cultivation of potatoes, other substances and preparations for spraying are often used.

Read on our site all about the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides, their benefits and harms, methods of application.

Diseases and pests

It has good immunitywhich reliably protects it from cancer, phytophtoras, scab and many other diseases.

However, not everything is so smooth, because viral diseases pose a great threat to this variety. With potato viruses, the main problem is that if they hit your plants, it will be difficult to get rid of them.

Therefore, it is better to use preventive remedies in advance.:

• remove and burn all the weeds and plant residues of the bushes in time;
• The main distributors of viral diseases are insects. Therefore, spraying potatoes with insecticides will be the best means of protection;
• Correct crop rotation using varieties immune to viral diseases can eliminate the danger of the disease for a long period.

"Gourmet" is a unique potato variety with a huge amount of positive properties. However, it did not reach popularity in the CIS countries.

The main problem is that many are suspicious of colored types of potatoes, considering them the result of GMOs or some other unnatural ways of creation.

But it is not so afraid of this variety is not worth it, he obtained by natural selection and will have a very positive effect on your body.