What to do if potato tops are caught in frost. Potatoes after frost - how to get a harvest. Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?

Gennady Viktorov, Smolensk region.

Changeable weather is sometimes misleading: it would seem that spring has finally and irrevocably arrived, and we are happy to have time to plant seedlings. And then frosts unexpectedly return, ruining all our work. Experts will tell you how to prepare for an unexpected cold snap and what to do with frozen plants.

Before sprouting, potatoes tolerate late frosts without damage. Tubers can withstand cooling down to -2...-3 degrees.

But potato tops, if they have already appeared, are very sensitive to low temperatures: they begin to be damaged at +0.5 degrees, and in a prolonged cold spell they can even die.

What can be done to save potatoes after frost

1. If frosts are predicted, hill up the emerging potato seedlings, and as the weather gets warmer, dig up the bushes - they will continue to grow.

2. Sprinkling is also effective: moistened soil begins to evaporate intensely and release heat. As a result, the ground layer is significantly enriched with water vapor, the dew point rises, and the danger of frost decreases.

3. Smoking may help. Place “smoke heaps” next to the potato plot, setting fire to branches, rotted straw manure, shavings, etc. To create more smoke, you can add mineral oils and coal tar inside. When burning, the smoke pile generates a significant amount of heat and warms the air. The slower it burns, the more heat is released.

4. You can cover the beds with film, the main thing is that the plants do not touch it. Spread out old newspapers, and then place the film on them, securing its edges. When the air temperature rises above 0 degrees, remove the film.

If you're late

Have you arrived at your dacha and see that the potatoes have already suffered from return frosts?

Do not rush to remove the plant: damaged bushes are able to regrow, although with a great expenditure of energy, delayed development and reduced yield. To speed up the regrowth of tops and prevent large losses, feed the potatoes with nitrogen fertilizers (20 g of ammonium nitrate per 1 sq.m.).

A true folk sign of frost

Whether there will be frost can be determined by the behavior of slugs and snails. If they crawled out into the beds in the evening, frost is not expected, they hid - take action. But this only works with mollusks crawling on the ground, since those that had previously hidden, say, inside a young head of cabbage, will not crawl out of their nourishing shelter in any case.

Vladimir STAROSTIN, Ph.D. agricultural sciences

We help the victims

It has been noticed: the earlier spring comes and the higher the temperature in the first half of it, the higher the risk of dangerous frosts at the end. How to help planted seedlings if they have suffered from frost?

Cabbage and tomatoes

During the day after a sharp cold snap, you can do nothing with the planted plants, but the next day it is advisable to water the cabbage and tomato seedlings at the rate of approximately 1 liter of water at room temperature for each plant.

The next day, spray them with any growth stimulator: Epin, Heteroauxin, Kornevin (1 ml per 5 liters of water), using 50-100 ml of solution for each plant. You can also water the soil with this solution: 150-200 ml of solution per bush. After such treatment, the seedlings, as a rule, come to life.

Clearly hopeless, dead leaves should be carefully trimmed back to healthy tissue.

3-4 days after the first feeding, the plants can be watered with a solution of urea (dissolving 1 heaped tablespoon in a bucket of water) or other nitrogen fertilizer, spending 150-200 ml per plant and trying not to get it on the leaves when watering.

After another week, it is permissible to apply potassium fertilizers: 1 tbsp. per bucket of water, at the rate of 150-200 ml of solution for each bush.

TIP: Like vegetable seedlings, frozen potato seedlings can also be sprayed with growth stimulants (Epin, Heteroauxin, Kornevin) and carefully remove dead leaves that look as if they are burnt to healthy tissue.

N. KHROMOV, Ph.D. s-khnauk

• Saving frozen potatoes

• Second and no less important.

Saving frozen potatoes

• Don't like the sweet taste?

  Question about potatoes

  – you can also get rid of it. Leave the peeled and cut potatoes in cold water for a while. Afterwards, boil it in salted water with the addition of vinegar (1 tablespoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water), and the unwanted sweetness will go away.

Many gardeners have encountered a situation where potatoes froze during storage. This is a fairly common problem, because with improper storage and non-compliance with temperature conditions, this is usually inevitable. Let's figure out what to do, how to act correctly and save potatoes in such a situation.

• What can cause potatoes to freeze?
• Saving frozen potatoes
• Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?
• Frozen potatoes - a good harvest
• How to tell if your crop is frozen
• Is it possible to cook frozen potatoes?

Frozen potatoes are common as winter weather is often unstable. It can freeze slightly for the following reasons:

Failure to comply with temperature conditions during storage. This is due to the fact that not all cellars are suitable for storing potatoes. The optimal temperature for storing planting tubers is +3 – +6 degrees, in which case the vegetables will not rot or freeze.

In order for the potato crop to be stored much longer, it is necessary to store it in complete darkness under temperature conditions.

• Second and no less important.

Air humidity. Can fluctuate between 85-93%.

Air ventilation directly affects the condition of potatoes. With its help, temperature, humidity, as well as air exchange are adjusted.

Saving frozen potatoes

Remove the top layer of frozen potatoes, sorted tubers, wash and dry thoroughly

If it happened that the potatoes were suddenly frozen, then the situation is more complicated. When transferred to heat, it will become soft and slippery, it will be better to get rid of it.

Before you start resuscitating frozen potatoes, it is worth determining the degree of frostbite. If seed potatoes have been in a cold room for a long time, the temperature in which ranged from 0 to 3 degrees, and the conversion of starch into sugar has already begun, then the tubers need to be transferred to a warm room and after 5-8 days the sugar is converted back into starch, the quality of the vegetable will become the same.

Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?

If sprouts begin to appear on the potatoes, they should be sprinkled with warm water or a weak solution of manganese, the sprouts will begin to swell and then you can safely plant such tubers.

If there were already sprouts on the potato, they could have been damaged when it froze.

Frozen potatoes - a good harvest

If you find that your potatoes are frozen after wintering in the basement, this is not a reason to be upset. Experienced gardeners share their experience on how to get an excellent harvest from frozen tubers.

Sprouted frozen potato tubers

At the beginning of April, the tubers should be planted in a greenhouse and in a few days the potatoes will be covered with small green bushes instead of the usual eyes. After planting, when the height of the sprouts reaches 15-20 cm, you can safely hill up.

After two weeks, the bushes should be hilled up again and fed with complex fertilizer.

Potatoes frozen on the balcony: what to do, culinary tips

If you have already done everything correctly, by mid-summer you will be able to get a wonderful harvest.

How to tell if your crop is frozen

Let's figure out how to determine that potatoes are frozen.

First you need to take the potatoes to a warm place and leave them for a couple of hours. After this, cut it, if you were able to do it easily, your harvest is fine, but if, when cutting, blackness is visible on the cut, then it is better to throw it away immediately.

Signs of frozen potatoes

If it was difficult to cut the vegetable, then the potatoes are frozen, you need to leave them warm for a few more hours, then cut them into several parts and boil them; they will be a little sweet.

Is it possible to cook frozen potatoes?

There are many different theories on whether frozen potatoes can be eaten. Opinions differ on this point.

Some say that such potatoes are completely harmless, while others claim that during the defrosting process, this vegetable releases a toxic substance that will cause significant harm to your health and the body as a whole.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible! Potatoes are absolutely not poisonous, and the substance released while they freeze is nothing more than sucrose, which will give an unusual sweetish taste to your dishes.

There are many recipes for frozen potatoes: you can make potato pancakes or boil them in their jackets

Here are some tips on how to properly cook frozen potatoes:

• We take the required amount of potatoes, put them in water, the temperature of which can be from 40 to 60 degrees. Then the tubers should be thoroughly washed, dried and left for some time in a dark room. This way, it will thaw faster and you can easily clean it and use it in cooking.

Preparing potatoes for planting should begin in the fall. It is worth insulating the basement and building storage space. Also make sure that the humidity and air temperature correspond to generally accepted standards.

And only under such conditions can you protect the crop from cooling or sudden freezing, which can render it unusable.

Many gardeners have encountered a situation where potatoes froze during storage. This is a fairly common problem, because with improper storage and non-compliance with temperature conditions, this is usually inevitable. Let's figure out what to do, how to act correctly and save potatoes in such a situation.

• What can cause potatoes to freeze?
• Saving frozen potatoes
• Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?
• Frozen potatoes - a good harvest
• How to tell if your crop is frozen
• Is it possible to cook frozen potatoes?

What can cause potatoes to freeze?

Frozen potatoes are common as winter weather is often unstable. It can freeze slightly for the following reasons:

Failure to comply with temperature conditions during storage. This is due to the fact that not all cellars are suitable for storing potatoes. The optimal temperature for storing planting tubers is +3 – +6 degrees, in which case the vegetables will not rot or freeze.

In order for the potato crop to be stored much longer, it is necessary to store it in complete darkness under temperature conditions.

• Second and no less important.

Air humidity. Can fluctuate between 85-93%.

Air ventilation directly affects the condition of potatoes. With its help, temperature, humidity, as well as air exchange are adjusted.

Saving frozen potatoes

Remove the top layer of frozen potatoes, sorted tubers, wash and dry thoroughly

If it happened that the potatoes were suddenly frozen, then the situation is more complicated. When transferred to heat, it will become soft and slippery, it will be better to get rid of it.

Before you start resuscitating frozen potatoes, it is worth determining the degree of frostbite. If seed potatoes have been in a cold room for a long time, the temperature in which ranged from 0 to 3 degrees, and the conversion of starch into sugar has already begun, then the tubers need to be transferred to a warm room and after 5-8 days the sugar is converted back into starch, the quality of the vegetable will become the same.

Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?

If sprouts begin to appear on the potatoes, they should be sprinkled with warm water or a weak solution of manganese, the sprouts will begin to swell and then you can safely plant such tubers.

If there were already sprouts on the potato, they could have been damaged when it froze.

Frozen potatoes - a good harvest

If you find that your potatoes are frozen after wintering in the basement, this is not a reason to be upset. Experienced gardeners share their experience on how to get an excellent harvest from frozen tubers.

Sprouted frozen potato tubers

At the beginning of April, the tubers should be planted in a greenhouse and in a few days the potatoes will be covered with small green bushes instead of the usual eyes. After planting, when the height of the sprouts reaches 15-20 cm, you can safely hill up.

After two weeks, the bushes should be hilled up again and fed with complex fertilizer. If you have already done everything correctly, by mid-summer you will be able to get a wonderful harvest.

How to tell if your crop is frozen

Let's figure out how to determine that potatoes are frozen.

First you need to take the potatoes to a warm place and leave them for a couple of hours. After this, cut it, if you were able to do it easily, your harvest is fine, but if, when cutting, blackness is visible on the cut, then it is better to throw it away immediately.

Signs of frozen potatoes

If it was difficult to cut the vegetable, then the potatoes are frozen, you need to leave them warm for a few more hours, then cut them into several parts and boil them; they will be a little sweet.

Is it possible to cook frozen potatoes?

There are many different theories on whether frozen potatoes can be eaten. Opinions differ on this point.

Some say that such potatoes are completely harmless, while others claim that during the defrosting process, this vegetable releases a toxic substance that will cause significant harm to your health and the body as a whole.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible!

Potatoes frozen on the balcony..???

Potatoes are absolutely not poisonous, and the substance released while they freeze is nothing more than sucrose, which will give an unusual sweetish taste to your dishes.

There are many recipes for frozen potatoes: you can make potato pancakes or boil them in their jackets

Here are some tips on how to properly cook frozen potatoes:

• We take the required amount of potatoes, put them in water, the temperature of which can be from 40 to 60 degrees. Then the tubers should be thoroughly washed, dried and left for some time in a dark room. This way, it will thaw faster and you can easily clean it and use it in cooking.
• Don't like the sweet taste? – you can also get rid of it. Leave the peeled and cut potatoes in cold water for a while. Afterwards, boil it in salted water with the addition of vinegar (1 tablespoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water), and the unwanted sweetness will go away.

Preparing potatoes for planting should begin in the fall. It is worth insulating the basement and building storage space. Also make sure that the humidity and air temperature correspond to generally accepted standards.

And only under such conditions can you protect the crop from cooling or sudden freezing, which can render it unusable.

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In order to survive after PD, you will have to eat a lot of things, but the likelihood of finding frozen potatoes in the Russian Federation in winter is many times higher than any other product. Many people store potatoes at home, in garage cellars, and in private homes.

What to do with frozen potatoes?

In the event of social collapse, when heating, electricity and gas are turned off, the cold will reliably preserve the strategic product.

It happened differently for me. I forgot to bring a bag of potatoes from the balcony before frost, and they were all gone. I wanted to throw it away, but then I thought that I could get wartime recipes - then people ate everything. Traditional cooking methods, alas, are not suitable, as frozen potatoes become large, sweet and rubbery. That’s actually why they throw it away... but not the preppers.

ATTENTION! All recipes have been personally tested by me, so there can be no poisoning.

You need to quickly bring a couple of potatoes from the frost and wash them thoroughly. If you have warm water, the skin will easily separate on its own, leaving you with an already peeled potato in your hands. If you wash it in cold water or snow, you just need to clean the peel of dirt.
Next, quickly cut the potatoes into 4-5 mm slices. Don’t be afraid to cut, frozen potatoes contain a lot of voids, so cutting is not difficult. After this, pour a pinch of salt into the frying pan and put our slices there. You can fry without oil, but if you have a little vegetable or just fat, it’s better to add it. Fry on both sides until dark brown and voila - delicious potatoes are ready. The taste is no different from regular one, since we fried it completely.

Potato cakes were prepared using this method back in the Second World War, so people ate without getting poisoned, and so can we. We remove the skins from the potatoes (you can soak them in warm water for 10 seconds, or you can peel them off with a knife). Then grate it while it is frozen. If you wait until it thaws, you won’t be able to grate it anymore - it will look like, pardon the expression, a flaccid condom. After you have obtained a homogeneous mass after grating, stir it with flour until a mixture similar to thick sour cream is formed.
All. Now you can fry the flatbread. Again, if there is no oil or fat, then you can simply fry in a frying pan, without anything.

The flatbreads turn out slightly crispy, moderately brittle and very tasty. They successfully replaced bread for us during the hike.

How much are frozen potatoes?

Leonid Shkolny

Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes. Potato, red drum, bulb. Boiled, fried, crushed, fried potatoes. Chips. Well? Are you salivating, reader? Did you run to plan it in a frying pan? Now, imagine the situation - potatoes suddenly disappeared from everywhere, from Moscow to the very outskirts. Now the eyes have become round - how did it disappear? Are you crazy, writer?

I’m just sure that while breaking a hot potato in half, enjoying the steam from the cast iron, or spearing a rosy “fry” on a fork, you didn’t remember the name Peter. The name went down in history along with the window cut through to Europe. And you don’t realize that Rus' owes him only for the potatoes - he is Great for Rus' with just the potatoes.

But in the North there was always a problem with potatoes - they don’t grow there, like many other things necessary for food. But not everyone can become a Chukchi. And so it appeared for the northerners, for future use, dried potatoes, and then flakes, and then grits. Dried - in strips, leaves, pressed in circles. This one is simple - soak it slightly and cook, fry, stew. It seems like potatoes - the northerners have adapted. But the Indian flakes, and then our semolina - know-how, of course. The starch is filtered off, the rest is poured into flour - here you have instant potatoes. Pour boiling water over it, season it with butter, and eat quickly before it gets cold. While the potatoes are hot, they look like potatoes, but if they have frozen a little, throw them out to the dogs.

So the suppliers tried to please the northerners with fresh potatoes and pamper them with their dear ones. They were transported from afar, from Primorye, on relays, and with transshipments and overloads. From Vladivostok, through the La Perouse Strait, the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, past Kamchatka and Chukotka, and now the Bering Strait. The potatoes are just dug up, in the boxes, they smell like earth. And the sailors are in a hurry - it’s time for autumn, they would like to escape back from the “polar” in time. Nice guys - the northerners were respected, they knew, they would remember them with a kind word on the long polar night.

The captain, sweating slightly, squeezed the ship between the ice through the strait, waved to Alaska, and immediately - to the left on board. Clean water is lucky for now, but you still have to run and run. Past all of Chukotka to the mouth of the Kolyma River is not a fun walk. There's ice, there it is on the starboard side. Pevek is astern. A little bit more. And here are the Five Finger Islands. Left on board - well, hello Kolyma River, welcome your guests.

Vira Maina - the sailors are in a hurry, the port workers of the polar Cape Verde are in a hurry, to hide the potatoes in warehouses. Expensive cargo, and winter gives no warning here. And it’s still a long way to the winter road – until the tundra is covered in frost. So the potato passes from hand to hand until it pleases the northerner with the native smell from under the lid of the pan, the smell of childhood, the smell of a distant homeland.

And her path to the village of Bilibino is also long and far. Road workers use bulldozers to cut frozen tussocks and drag corners with tractors to level the road. So the children of the northerners are already impressed - Mom, will the winter road be opened soon? - Children. How to explain to them why severe frosts are needed for a winter road.

But now the frosts have taken their toll. The air exhaled from the lips hums, and only the slightly gray darkness indicates noon. And suddenly, joyfully, Colona left Cape Verde. Meet me. – Chukotka first route – tundra, streams, valleys, ridges and passes. The light of car headlights and the ice crust on the windshield dissolve in the frosty haze. What kind of brake light is there for the front car in this whirlwind of snow? Frosty snow dust hangs over the road. The motor friend lulls, sings its endless song. Sing, dear, sing. You can’t be silent - they didn’t give you antifreeze back then.

Bilibin residents are freezing at the entrance to the village, persistent children are huddling at their feet - Mom, will the convoy arrive soon? - Children. How to tell them why there are guys with pipes and red flags and slogans here. And here are the flashes in the fog. Up-down, left-right. The ears of the hats are tied, the strained hum is not heard yet, only the flashes in the night are getting brighter and brighter.

Roaring powerfully, the first car flies out onto the river terrace, followed by a second, a third. And now the entire column was filled with beeps hoarse from the frost. The doors of the snow-covered cabins are open. The skinny orchestra briefly croaked a couple of verses. There weren’t that many people – there was enough for the drivers of the first three cars. The others cheered, smiling.

The potatoes also waited their turn. The first thermal waves began to run along the well-worn winter road. These machines are for frost-resistant cargo, including potatoes. It looks like an insulated booth on a car with internal heating. No, not a refrigerator - the exhaust pipe heats the booth from the inside. It's warm in the booth while the engine is running. This is the driver’s concern - to deliver the car, not to stall, not to freeze the potatoes on the road.

Chauffeur. Who will appreciate his work on the winter track? Who will understand his nature, who will hear him on those hundreds of kilometers of northern winter roads, who will push him in the side when fatigue overcomes his eyes? Who will tell you how the cylinder crumbles into black dust, how fragile the springs are when the winter road is forty or below. Only the driver, no one else. Try to hear him if he is stingy with words, not talkative, and not prone to moaning. I'm sure this is about my hero without a name.

The thermal tank was loaded with potatoes. They loaded it under the chewing gum, under the ceiling, leaving only room for the spare tire. The Driver hugged the children and his wife, put the brake and a large thermos of coffee into the cab, and a torso - which doesn’t happen on the road. The door clanged like the jaws of a wolf, and now the headlights grabbed the road so as not to let go until the end.

The thermal machine stood on the side of the road. Cars passed by - fourteen of them during the day. The law of the winter road is simple and harsh - the engine is running, the lights are on - it means the Driver is tired, resting in a warm cabin. It was the same here. White clouds of condensation rose above the car, and the dimensions reassured those passing by - everything is in order, do not disturb the Driver with signals.

Only the fifteenth one was alarmed. The engine didn't work. I beeped - no response. The car is parked wisely - with its nose downhill. It will start right away. “Fifteenth” knew the Driver - a little thing won’t stop him on the way. He walked up and looked into the cabin - it was empty, the key was in the ignition, there were no fresh tracks in the snow around. Gasoline is at zero, the engine and radiator are frozen. I walked up to the door of the thermal booth - silence, the door was locked. The driver disappeared.

Once again I walked around the car around the “fifteenth” and got into the thermal cabin. The brake, a thermos of coffee, a sweater, a torso - everything is in the right seat, and the Driver has disappeared. An unprecedented case. He walked around the “fifteenth” car, released the lock and opened the door of the thermal cabin.

The driver lay bent over on the floor, his face pressed against the gap between the door and the floor. He was dead.

“We’re already a third of the way there.” The car responds kindly to the caring hands of the Driver.

Urgently, the potatoes are frozen. Throw it away?

The engine hums steadily, slightly straining on the ridges. The cabin is lined with felt sheets. It's hot in a sweater. Everything is familiar, homely. Check the cargo, drink some coffee, wash your face with snow, and you can move on. He slowed down on the slope, leaned back, and his straightened shoulders crunched.

Exhaust gas blew out of the open door of the thermal tank - apparently there was a leak at the flange. I waited a bit and jumped inside. I squeezed between the boxes with potatoes and the spare tire - everything was fine, I adjusted the top ones. You can go further. –

Eh, guy! Even if those boxes had been scattered all over the car, we would have gotten there anyway. Look around, rush to the door, because the door cannot be unlocked from the inside. The thermal unit is well assembled, the doors fit tightly and the shutter fits neatly into the sockets. Could you have thought that the door of a tilted car would slam itself, slam shut securely, for you forever.

– Just pushing the door, the Driver understood everything at once. It was possible to knock out the bolt only with a spare cylinder. But he packed the boxes in the car himself, packing them tightly, leaving room only for the spare wheel. There was no place to disperse the balloon for impact. The gas did its job. Choking, in complete darkness, he broke boxes, scattering potatoes on the floor, making room for the balloon to disperse. In vain. He was already out of breath. And cars passed by, he heard their hum, he begged his comrades to stop. But he knew the law of the winter road. The driver was out of breath. Having fallen on top of the scattered potatoes, he pressed his face to the crack, trying to breathe in fresh air. But the door was adjusted by the responsible people. We walked past the car. The driver asked to stop the engine. But he himself prepared the car for the flight. And the tanks are filled taking into account the return trip. There was no escape. –

Near the warm warehouse, half-covered with snow, stood a pile of boxes of frozen potatoes. One of the drillers saw it. Why does goodness disappear? A seasoned northerner, he knew that frozen potatoes were not lost potatoes. Scald with boiling water, quickly peel the skin, and throw into boiling water. You will also have a normal borscht soup, and you can mash it with salt. Drillers are used to it. So they took it with them for next to nothing – cheap and cheerful.

Cars are walking along the winter road. Northerners are waiting for them in the Chukotka villages. Everyone knows the word “winter road”. Winter road is life. They have their own affairs, their own concerns. It’s clear that when we shovel steaming, aromatic potatoes onto our plate, we won’t remember how many hands it went through. We don’t even know the name of that Driver. That is life.

The blades of sastrugi slash the trail with drifting snow. Frozen, stunted larches are silent and unfriendly. A snow-covered pyramid with a star will flash in the headlights on the side of the road. Time has erased the inscription on it, only large letters - Driver. And we don’t have time to stop, we’re in a hurry. The pyramid is like someone's destiny. Only the long horn of a passing car will break the silence as a sign of memory and respect.

Copyright: Leonid Shkolny, 2011
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In spring and even early June there is a threat of return frosts, which have a detrimental effect on plants, including potatoes. If the tops have already grown well and frost occurs, then urgent measures must be taken to save the harvest.

1. Spraying with water

Frozen potato tops can be saved by spraying with water from a hose using a fine sprayer. The thing is that during frosts, the water in the cells begins to freeze and turns into ice. In the morning, when the sun begins to warm up, the vada does not have time to melt and breaks the cells. As a result, the plant dies.

Therefore, in the morning, when there is no sun yet, we simply spray it with water from a hose or watering can, as fertilizer for anyone. Then you need to shade the potatoes from the sun's rays. This can be done using cardboard, special black spandex or regular burdock leaves. Thanks to this method, the water in the cells will slowly melt without damaging the tissue. This will save the plant.

The special drug Epin makes it easier for potatoes to withstand frost, as well as drought and various diseases.

Epin must be used according to the instructions once every 5-7 days after the potatoes have frozen.

3. Fertilizers.

Fertilizers with a high nitrogen and potassium content can save potato tops from frost. Potatoes need to quickly restore their green mass, so we add mullein, but only in a weaker concentrate. To do this, dilute 1 liter of liquid mullein in a bucket of water and mix everything well.

The resulting solution is diluted with water again in a 1:1 ratio. We already water the tops with this solution. You can also add 300 g of wood ash to this solution. Or you can sprinkle ash under each bush. Wood ash contains more than 30 microelements that are necessary for plants.

You can also add urea, potassium fertilizers, and ammonium nitrate to restore the tops. Ammonium sulfate and other easily soluble mineral fertilizers that contain nitrogen.

And you can find out how to use the resulting harvest on my channel “The joy of being", where I publish for you many exclusive homemade recipes.

Many gardeners have encountered a situation where potatoes froze during storage. This is a fairly common problem, because with improper storage and non-compliance with temperature conditions, this is usually inevitable. Let's figure out what to do, how to act correctly and save potatoes in such a situation.

What can cause potatoes to freeze?

Frozen potatoes are common as winter weather is often unstable. It can freeze slightly for the following reasons:

• First and main.

Failure to comply with temperature conditions during storage. This is due to the fact that not all cellars are suitable for storing potatoes. The optimal temperature for storing planting tubers is +3 – +6 degrees, in which case the vegetables will not rot or freeze.

In order for the potato crop to be stored much longer, it is necessary to store it in complete darkness under temperature conditions.

• Second and no less important.

Air humidity. Can fluctuate between 85-93%.

• And the third.

Air ventilation directly affects the condition of potatoes. With its help, temperature, humidity, as well as air exchange are adjusted.

Saving frozen potatoes

Remove the top layer of frozen potatoes, sorted tubers, wash and dry thoroughly

If it happened that the potatoes were suddenly frozen, then the situation is more complicated. When transferred to heat, it will become soft and slippery, it will be better to get rid of it.

Before you start resuscitating frozen potatoes, it is worth determining the degree of frostbite. If seed potatoes have been in a cold room for a long time, the temperature in which ranged from 0 to 3 degrees, and the conversion of starch into sugar has already begun, then the tubers need to be transferred to a warm room and after 5-8 days the sugar is converted back into starch, the quality of the vegetable will become the same.

Is it possible to plant frozen tubers?

If sprouts begin to appear on the potatoes, they should be sprinkled with warm water or a weak solution of manganese, the sprouts will begin to swell and then you can safely plant such tubers.

If there were already sprouts on the potato, they could have been damaged when it froze.

Frozen potatoes - a good harvest

If you find that your potatoes are frozen after wintering in the basement, this is not a reason to be upset. Experienced gardeners share their experience on how to get an excellent harvest from frozen tubers.

Sprouted frozen potato tubers

At the beginning of April, the tubers should be planted in a greenhouse and in a few days the potatoes will be covered with small green bushes instead of the usual eyes. After planting, when the height of the sprouts reaches 15-20 cm, you can safely hill up.

After two weeks, the bushes should be hilled up again and fed with complex fertilizer. If you have already done everything correctly, by mid-summer you will be able to get a wonderful harvest.

How to tell if your crop is frozen

Let's figure out how to determine that potatoes are frozen.

First you need to take the potatoes to a warm place and leave them for a couple of hours. After this, cut it, if you were able to do it easily, your harvest is fine, but if, when cutting, blackness is visible on the cut, then it is better to throw it away immediately.

Signs of frozen potatoes

If it was difficult to cut the vegetable, then the potatoes are frozen, you need to leave them warm for a few more hours, then cut them into several parts and boil them; they will be a little sweet.

Is it possible to cook frozen potatoes?

There are many different theories on whether frozen potatoes can be eaten. Opinions differ on this point.

Some say that such potatoes are completely harmless, while others claim that during the defrosting process, this vegetable releases a toxic substance that will cause significant harm to your health and the body as a whole.

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible! Potatoes are absolutely not poisonous, and the substance released while they freeze is nothing more than sucrose, which will give an unusual sweetish taste to your dishes.

There are many recipes for frozen potatoes: you can make potato pancakes or boil them in their jackets

Here are some tips on how to properly cook frozen potatoes:

• We take the required amount of potatoes, put them in water, the temperature of which can be from 40 to 60 degrees. Then the tubers should be thoroughly washed, dried and left for some time in a dark room. This way, it will thaw faster and you can easily clean it and use it in cooking.
• Don't like the sweet taste? – you can also get rid of it. Leave the peeled and cut potatoes in cold water for a while. Afterwards, boil it in salted water with the addition of vinegar (1 tablespoon of vinegar per 1 liter of water), and the unwanted sweetness will go away.

Preparing potatoes for planting should begin in the fall. It is worth insulating the basement and building storage space. Also make sure that the humidity and air temperature correspond to generally accepted standards.

And only under such conditions can you protect the crop from cooling or sudden freezing, which can render it unusable.

What determines potato yield? Of course, it depends on the assortment of planting material, soil condition, technology and timeliness of agrotechnical practices. But if you grow potatoes in open ground, the yield will depend primarily on the weather.

Gardeners need to not just tolerate the antics of this capricious “lady,” but take advantage of her benefits and try to prevent or minimize the consequences of adverse weather factors. This is the most important rule for achieving stable high results.

What's all the salt?

The past season again turned out to be difficult for gardeners, requiring intense work and initiative. Late return frosts, which occurred twice, destroyed many potato growers' hopes for a high harvest.

Judging by the autumn prices, which have more than doubled compared to previous years, their fears were justified. Market prices for potatoes are simply shocking, and this is during the period of their mass sales, when any manufacturer is trying to sell the maximum amount of product, even at the minimum price, since we still do not have enough good potato storage facilities.

How can potato growers survive late frosts that destroy seedlings and still get a decent harvest? It would seem that everything depends on the timing of planting.

If you plant potatoes later, then likely frosts will pass before the shoots appear. Let's use the old commandment: plant potatoes in well-warmed soil - and you can avoid the risk. Does not work! The experience of the last decade with noticeable climate warming convincingly proves that delays in planting inevitably lead to a decrease in yield.

The summer heat sets in before the potato bushes close in, and the earth dries out and overheats. And the drought begins precisely during the period when potatoes are actively forming a crop.

It’s a shame, because potato tubers, in principle, can be sprouted and planted all year round. This property is used when cultivating it in summer planting, when, in order to avoid the formation of very long sprouts, last year’s tubers are kept in refrigerators until mid-summer or germinated for a long time in the light.

In the southern regions, the technique of growing potatoes in a two-crop crop is widely used.

To do this, young tubers are harvested while the plants are flowering and immediately replanted, having previously been treated with a set of special growth stimulants. In this case, the period of tuberization occurs in the cooler autumn period, and during the scorching summer heat, the plants only grow green mass.

Of course, these technologies are effective and possible only with regular irrigation. Indeed, in the second half of summer, potatoes, as a rule, do not have enough natural precipitation. This is especially true for young plants with an undeveloped root system.

Now this situation is observed not only in the southern, but also in all other regions.

If in the spring you delay the optimal time for planting potatoes by at least a week (in the Forest-steppe and Polesie this is the first two decades of April), this can lead to large crop losses, sometimes up to 50-100 kg per hundred square meters. Even organized irrigation will not help solve the problem.

At night temperatures above 20 °C, tuberization and crop accumulation practically stop; in such conditions, only the tops of potatoes grow. If the air temperature drops, the tubers will continue to develop, but their skin, coarsened during the period of stagnation in growth during the heat, may not withstand the internal pressure, which will lead to massive cracking of the tubers and a decrease in their quality. When choosing a variety and ripeness group of potatoes when grown in modern conditions of a changed climate, it is necessary to take into account the likely timing of tuberization. so that they do not coincide with the peak of summer temperatures.

How to avoid potato losses during return frosts

Perhaps not a single potato grower can remember a case when, after spring frosts, it was necessary to replant potatoes.

Significant damage to plants can only be caused by very late cold weather, returning after the potatoes have entered the budding and flowering phase, or if the seed material was located at the very surface of the soil and the frost damaged the uterine tubers and root system.

In other cases, potato plants quickly recover after frost. The tops, protected from frost by covering hills, rise above the soil, and the young shoots are helped to grow by the already formed root system.

Budding, flowering, and the formation of stolons with tubers occur somewhat later, but with good nutrition and moisture supply, potatoes do not reduce yield by more than 5%. which is almost unnoticeable.

However, potatoes can be helped to realize their potential. After all, if you do nothing and just sadly watch the potato field turn black overnight, the weeds will rise sooner and choke out the potato bushes.

To help potatoes recover faster after frost, you need to feed them with nitrogen fertilizers. There should be no fear of accumulation of nitrates in the final product when applying scientifically based doses of such fertilizers. Nitrogen is a building material for leaves and stems of plants, introduced during this period, it will be used for its intended purpose. After frost, it is better to apply nitrogen in the form of solutions of urea, ammonium nitrate [for example, 1 kg of urea dissolved in 10-20 liters of water, per 1 sq.m.] or tinctures of chicken manure, mullein, watering the rows from a watering can. Then watering should be carried out (if there is no rain), and a day later - loosening the rows to prevent the formation of a soil crust and destroy weed seedlings.

After restoring the tops for hilling, it is advisable to carry out another root feeding with complex fertilizers.

Nitrogen is a building material for leaves and stems of plants, introduced during this period, it will be used for its intended purpose. After frost, it is better to apply nitrogen in the form of solutions of urea, ammonium nitrate [for example, 1 kg of urea dissolved in 10-20 liters of water, per 1 sq.m.] or tinctures of chicken manure, mullein, watering the rows from a watering can. Then watering should be carried out (if there is no rain), and a day later - loosening the rows to prevent the formation of a soil crust and destroy weed seedlings.

After restoring the tops for hilling, it is advisable to carry out another root feeding with a complex fertilizer, for example, nitroammophos NPK 5:16:35 (1 kg per hundred square meters, can be in granules). Then, every ten days, foliar feeding is done on the leaf with ready-made concentrated preparations containing microelements, preferably in chelated form ( Reacom Potato, Raikat, Ecolist Standard, Maxicrop, Hortico, Nutrivant Plus, Master, etc.). The working solution is prepared according to the instructions for the drug, adding up to 80 g of urea to it for spraying 1 hundred square meters of vegetative plants.

If it is not possible to purchase ready-made concentrates, prepare a 0.01-0.05% solution of commercially available soluble salts of microelements (5 g per 10 l of water salts of copper, manganese, boron, molybdenum, zinc, cobalt and 1 g of salts iron, iodine, aluminum).

When carrying out foliar feeding, every time (not only during flowering) any growth stimulant must be added to the Hhk solution ( Fumar, Poteytin, Emistim S, Immunocytophyte, Epin-extra, Bioglobin, Rost-concentrate, etc.). They relieve stress and activate plant defenses necessary for rapid regeneration after frost damage.

If necessary, you can also add a means of protection against the Colorado potato beetle to the tank mixture. But it is better to protect against fungal diseases with fungicides separately, adding only a stimulant to the working solution, so as not to exceed the maximum permissible concentration of the drugs and not harm the plants.

How it was

In many regions this year, after frosts, warmth did not return for a long time. Because of this, crops growing in open ground (tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.) began to lag in growth. The melons especially got it.

But cool weather only benefited potatoes, because they are a moderate-temperature crop. However, due to these natural anomalies, the growing season was delayed and the harvesting dates were delayed. Even early-ripening varieties were ready for harvest only by mid-August, and not, as usual, by the end of July.

But my harvest, for example, turned out to be plentiful and the tubers were large. I think this is the result of not only the use of growth stimulants, but also proper handling of the soil. The fact is that due to crop rotation, it had time to “rest”, and since the fall it has been filled with humus (EM-compost). In addition, I plowed the soil with a green mass of green manure (a mixture of white mustard and oilseed radish) and applied a spring dose of mineral fertilizers. My plot also has a drip irrigation system, which includes the ability to apply biological products and fertilizers through an injector. And this played a decisive role during the period of drought during the accumulation of crops.

About potato varieties that gave a good harvest after frost

Since the summer turned out to be cool, which is favorable for potatoes, varieties of all ripeness groups, not only early and drought-resistant ones, produced a good harvest. Even the “old-timers,” some of whom I was already planning to remove from my collection, were pleased with their results. Thus, early varieties Kiranda Laura, Agave Glazurny, Zelenyi Gai, Ovation, Strumok, Tiras, mid-early varieties Kuroda, Kalinovsky, Smuglyanka, Typhoon, Yubilei Zhukova, mid-season Vernissage, Legend, Roko, and mid-late Zhuravinka gave a good harvest. More promising, of course, are new intensive varieties that are resistant to modern conditions, but bring high yields only when cultivated on a high agricultural background: Bellaprima, Pselsky. Anatan, Okolitsa, Pomkvin, Eurostarch

Over 500 kg per hundred square meters were produced by such excellent varieties of selection in recent years as Fidelia, Suzanne (mid-ripe, Germany), Arizona, Madeleine, Royata KVS(mid-ripe, Netherlands), Ivankovsky early, Slouta(early ripening). As always, the leaders in yield were the newest varieties that successfully passed the state test: K Atania (Germany), Esme, Constance (Netherlands), Radomysl and Duma.

In general, the past season turned out to be difficult, requiring ingenuity and work, but the results, in my opinion, were excellent.

I want to talk about potatoes, or rather, how I saved them. We plant it a little more than one hundred square meters, the distance between the boletus is 60 cm, in the row between the bushes it is 25-26 cm. We always plant on May 9th. I make the rows myself, the holes too, but my husband Mikhail plants them: he doesn’t trust me with that. In the holes where a handful of ash and 1 tbsp have already been placed. l. superphosphate, he very carefully, with the sprouts facing up, places the tubers and carefully covers them with soil with his hands. I make shallow holes and, if the soil is dry, I water them.

During the season, my husband hills the potatoes two or three times. Every year we collect 40 buckets of good, large potatoes for food, five buckets for seeds and five to six buckets of small things. Every three or four years we buy humus and apply it to the site in the fall. Every year, after harvesting, we dig up the soil and plant green manure - rye, oats, mustard. Then we dig again in late autumn.

And now the most important thing. Summer 2017 was very cold and rainy. When the potatoes sprouted, frosts began. Every evening I covered the seedlings with lutrasil, then it got warmer, the forecasts did not promise frost, and I stopped covering. One day in early June, I couldn’t sleep, I went to the window and saw a terrible picture: all my potatoes were white. Throwing on my coat, I ran out into the garden. I touched the bushes with my hand, and they began to crunch – all the leaves were covered in an icy shell! She quickly pulled out the lu-trasil and covered it with it. In the morning I took it off and saw an even worse picture: all the leaves were black...

Only where the apple tree grew did the potatoes not suffer: apparently, the frost had settled on its branches.

History of the Flood

I cut off all the blackened leaves, and the bushes gradually grew over with new foliage. But the rains did not stop, and on June 25 late blight appeared on potatoes weakened by frost, and black leg appeared on 10 bushes. These 10 bushes had to be dug up and thrown away, and the ground had to be processed (a glass of ash + 1 tbsp. copper sulfate).

For three hours, without straightening up, I cut out the diseased leaves, and then sprayed them with copper oxychloride, fortunately there was no rain in the evening. But the next day it started to rain again and for three days in a row it poured like buckets, and there was water in the furrows. Phytophthora appeared again, but already on the stems. What to do? Despair overwhelmed me, I began to think about how to save the potatoes.

I got ready and went to the pharmacy, bought bottles of iodine and several packs of trichopolum.

By evening the rain stopped, I again cut off all the black leaves, and then took the sharpest knife and used it to clear the stems of stains, cauterizing the sore spots with iodine. After that, she took a bucket, poured 10 liters of water, crushed 10 Trichopolum tablets and poured them into the water, added another 12 drops of iodine, mixed everything well and sprayed the area.

The weather was good for several days and the disease stopped. But then the rains started again, but I didn’t give up: when they stopped, I stubbornly sprayed the bushes again. And on July 18, a new misfortune occurred: at five o’clock in the evening a strong wind blew and such heavy rain poured down that all the potatoes fell to the ground, lay down, all the bushes were in the ground.

I no longer hoped for a harvest; it was simply impossible to enter the plot and cultivate the plantings. By August 20th the potato bushes had dried out and we started digging. The result pleased me; I did not expect this, to be honest, and did not hope for it. But, apparently, my efforts to save the harvest were not in vain. We dug up 30 buckets of good potatoes for food, four buckets for seeds and five buckets of change. In total, 11 buckets less than usual, but for such a year it was simply a miracle. For myself, I concluded: you should never give up!

The best varieties for cold summers turned out to be Nevskaya, Kiwi, Molly, Adretta. Let down: Rosara and Scarb. I didn’t even save them for seeds, I bought Charodey and Uladar instead, and my cousin gave me 30 Red Scarlett tubers, and my neighbor Sofya Kimovna gave me 5 Rogneda tubers.

So in 2018, all these varieties, despite the intense heat, gave a good harvest, and Rogneda was completely surprised: two buckets with the top of large, selected potatoes were taken from five bushes! I left one for this year; I really liked it. The sorcerer didn’t disappoint either: 15-16 pieces per lash. Only Kiwi was smaller - she loves water very much.

Dear gardeners and vegetable gardeners, good luck to you all at your dacha! And never give up.

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