Potato "Gala": description of the variety

Many plant growers and gardeners would like to deal with unpretentious crops, well tolerated by the absence of moisture, heat, insect attacks, and also able to quickly get rid of various diseases. At the moment, about 280 species of this vegetable are registered. They are specially acclimatized, and also included in the list of vegetable crops, which are recommended for industrial cultivation and storage.

The potato "Gala" was bred by breeders for those who want to apply as little effort as possible, without sacrificing the quality and volume of the harvest.

Is it necessary to choose varieties or it is possible to buy blind seed material without taking into account its compliance with climatic conditions? This is a rhetorical question, because properly selected potatoes will be able to get about 900 kg of harvest from a hundred of land, and also grow an earthen apple, whose weight will be about 3 kg! In this article we will examine in detail the potato variety "Gala". We learn how to plant it, what diseases it is exposed to, and also find out its advantages.

Potato "Gala": a description of the variety, photo

This variety is one of the early ripening varieties. About 2.5 months have passed since the planting, after which you can already serve a fragrant young potato. And similar successes can be achieved in the middle zone - there in recent years, the weather is often arid.

Description

It has the following characteristics: "Gala" potatoes:

• The description of the variety, the photo of which is presented in this article, can begin with the fact that this plant has slightly wavy, large, juicy-green leaves;
• Potato flowers are small, white;
• Tubers grow medium in size and oval, an average of 120 g, covered with a pale yellow skin with a small number of eyes - such smooth potatoes are quick and pleasant to clean;
• When cooking, it does not change the structure, it does not darken;
• Vegetable is characterized by a small content of starch - this is important for people who prefer a healthy diet;
• Potatoes "Gala" is perfectly kept on the condition that the leaves are removed a couple of weeks before harvesting the tubers.

Characteristics of potatoes will be incomplete, if not to say that this variety is very fruitful. Get from the bush 25 potatoes - this is the dream of every summer resident.

Diseases

Variety of potatoes "Gala", easily experiencing various dislocations, is often affected by rhizoctonia. This disease manifests itself in the form of a fungus, which destroys the lower region of the stem. Therefore, the fight against it must be one of the main tasks of the plant grower. Prevention is not difficult, especially since at the present moment the choice of harmless drugs is very large.

It is also necessary to pay attention to the diseases that are caused by the leaf-twisting virus, but the "Gala" potato is resistant to it. Sometimes he also suffers from late blight, more rarely - blight of tubers. Very good variety tolerates scab attack, nematodes, cancer, Y virus.

Therefore, the resistance to a variety of types of diseases, usually affecting many varieties, is simply excellent in this variety, this makes it a competitive commodity, and also the most favorite variety of many summer residents.

Advantages of the variety

Potato "Gala" is suitable for people who value their strength and time, in addition, for those for whom the following factors are important:

• Do not waste your time on caring for plants;
• Do not depend on the time of landing;
• Receive a rich harvest on any soil;
• Quietly store it, while not worrying about safety;
• Eat young delicious potatoes already at a time when it has only blossomed from its neighbors.

How to plant?

"Gala" - potatoes (reviews about it can be read in the article below) when planting should not be the size of a bigger chicken egg. It must be warmed in the sun three days before planting. Tubers are more effective to plant at a distance of eighty centimeters, as well as to a depth of no more than half the palm of your hand. At the same time, if the emerging sprouts are sprinkled several times with earth, one can contribute to the active growth of the root system. In order for the land to "rest", you can plant rye for the planting season during the winter.

Foreign and domestic practice has accurately established that the application of seed improved potato material helps to increase yield several times in comparison with degenerate raw material. It should be noted that the potato "Gala" accumulates a fungal, viral, bacterial infection, and in the course of time loses its yield, in other words degenerates. Consequently, whenever possible, as often as possible, you need to change the grade for seed elite material.

"Gala" (potatoes): reviews

Reading reviews on this potato, we can conclude that this is recently a very popular variety. Many people say that it is resistant to various diseases and gives a rich harvest. Although there are those people who show discontent with them. This is mainly due to the fact that it eventually degenerates.