Potatoes. There is no more favorite food in nature. Cooks from it prepare a variety of delicious dishes. It is boiled, fried, steamed, baked.
In folk medicine, it is valued for its high content of potassium, due to which excess water and salt are eliminated from the body.
They are treated with gastritis, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, it is recommended to use in heart failure and other diseases. He is loved by breeders. Over the past decades, thanks to their work, more and more new varieties have appeared.
How it all began
The potato variety Fairy Tale was obtained by crossing several varieties of S.tuberosum, S.demissum, S.vernei. From each "progenitor" Tale took the best.
From one smooth form and the content of starch, from another resistance to diseases and pests. The third conveyed taste. It turned out great really fabulous variety.
Potato Fairy Tale variety description and characteristics
| Grade name | Gingerbread Man |
| general characteristics | table variety of Russian breeding with high yields |
| Gestation period | 70-85 days |
| Starch content | 14-17% |
| Mass of commercial tubers | 70-130 gr |
| The number of tubers in the bush | up to 30 |
| Yield | 300-400 centners / ha |
| Consumer quality | good taste, suitable for frying and salads |
| Recumbency | 91% |
| Skin color | white |
| Pulp color | white |
| Preferred growing regions | Middle Volga, Ural, Far East |
| Disease resistance | relatively resistant to viral diseases |
| Features of growing | agrotechnical standard |
| Originator | LLC Selection Company "LIGA", GNU Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture "Belogorka" Russian Agricultural Academy |
The variety is medium early. It matures in 70-90 days, depending on weather conditions. This makes it possible to grow in areas where late frosts are possible.
The variety is productive for small farms, engaged not only in vegetable production, but also in cattle breeding. It is recommended to plant potatoes of this variety on the fields after growing perennials or winter crops on them. In this case, preference is given to leguminous crops.
The ripened root crop is of medium size, the tubers are almost of the same oval shape and have a mass of from 80 to 130 grams. The peel of potatoes is smooth, light yellow. In places of formation of eyes pink. Not many eyes, they have not very great depth.
On the cut, the flesh is white.With a high content of starch, potatoes are suitable for cooking mashed potatoes or roasting, with a little good for frying.
The starch content in other varieties of potatoes you can see in the table below:
| Grade name | Starch content |
| Fairy tale | 14-17% |
| Ilinsky | 15-18% |
| knapweed | 12-16% |
| Laura | 15-17% |
| Irbit | 12-17% |
| Blue-eyed | 15% |
| Adretta | 13-18% |
| Alvar | 12-14% |
| Breeze | 11-15% |
| Kubanka | 10-14% |
| Crimean rose | 13-17% |
Better conditions - higher yield
This potato is grown mainly in Russia and the former republics of the USSR, Moldavia and Ukraine. Productivity depends on climatic conditions and places of growth.
For a good harvest, light sandy and loamy soils are needed; it grows well in areas after the development of peat. In practice, there are examples of successful cultivation and on black soil. Drought-resistant varietyif there is no rain for a long time, it requires watering, but does not like much moisture.
On heavy soils, the tubers grow small. In favorable conditions, yields a yield of 400-450 centners / ha. Variety is classified as a table. It is used in food.It tastes good. It is considered one of the best in taste.
Good grade is also due to the fact that has a keeping quality over 90%. Resistant to diseases and pests. Tubers deposited in the fall, winter safely, and are ready for planting in the spring.
Also in the table below you can compare the keeping quality of other varieties with potatoes League:
| Grade name | Recumbency |
| Arosa | 95% |
| Vineta | 87% |
| Zorachka | 96% |
| Kamensky | 97% (early germination at storage temperatures above + 3 ° C) |
| Lyubava | 98% (very good), the tubers do not germinate for a long time |
| Molly | 82% (normal) |
| Agatha | 93% |
| Burly | 97% |
| Uladar | 94% |
| Felox | 90% (early awakening of tubers at temperatures above + 2 ° C) |
Agrotechnology of potatoes and methods of obtaining a good harvest can be very different.On our site you will find a lot of interesting things about growing potatoes. Including about growing it in bags and barrels, as well as all about the Dutch technology.
A photo
In the photo: potato variety Tale
Am I the sweetest in the world?
Potato Fairy Tale is an annual herb. Bush height 60-70 cmStems can be from 4 to 8, depending on the size of the tuber. The larger the tuber, the larger the stalks on the plant.
One part of the stem is immersed in the ground, the other is covered with dissected non-parisous leaves of small size, light green color.
Scientists who made the tale come true
The creators of the variety are Russian scientists breeders N.M. Hajiyev, V.A. Lebedeva, M.V. Ivanov. from the State Scientific Institution of the Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture and Public Utilities "Belogorka" of the Russian Academy of Agriculture, LLC LiGa. In 2004, the Fairy Tale variety is entered in the State Register.
A distinctive feature of the Fairy Tale is that in this variety a large number of tubers grow in one hole (multi-tubers). Not less than 15, but with good care and up to 30 pieces.
Second grade feature - from small nodules of seed potatoes the same harvest is obtained as from large ones.
Therefore, with an insufficient amount of seed potatoes, you can safely divide the tubers into small pieces. Sprout them and the resulting seedlings planted on the site.
Growing potatoes is not a difficult process at first glance. But he has a number of its features.We offer you useful materials on why herbicides and fungicides are needed for growing potatoes.
Diseases and pests
Potatoes belong to the family of the nightshade. Consequently, it is prone to diseases and pests of this type of plant.
Cancer, black cancer, these diseases are not dangerous, the variety is resistant to their carriers.
In rare cases, ill with late blight, often damaged by scab, potato nematode, macrosporosis. Viral diseases are committed to the plant through the seed pool.
Since the preservation of seeds in potato Tale is high, under the conditions of storage and the implementation of measures for the prevention of viral diseases, viruses practically do not threaten him.
Pests also "bypass it." In time carried out agrotechnical measures can completely get rid of pests.
There is not a single country in the world wherever potatoes are grown. But nowhere do they like him so much as in Russia. No wonder the potatoes we call the second bread.
