Potato variety Red Scarlet, description, characteristics and reviews, as well as features of cultivation

Potatoes are a necessary component of the diet, a supplier of carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins. Only they love him not for this, but for the bright taste of crispy chips or young potatoes with dill. Potatoes Red Scarlett from those that delight gardeners with an early harvest of pink tubers.

History of Red Scarlett Potato Variety

A variety with colorful pink tubers came to us at the end of the 20th century. Declared was the breeding company HZPC HOLLAND B.V. in 1997, and entered the State Register in 2000 The variety is recommended to be grown in several regions of the Russian Federation: North-West, Central, Central Black Earth and West Siberian.

Video: a gardener from Siberia talks about a variety of potatoes Red Scarlett

Description of the variety of potatoes Red Scarlett

The bush is not high, the tops are semi-erect. The leaf is green with medium sized leaves. The waviness along the edge of the leaves is weakly expressed.

Luxurious purple-violet flowers are collected in medium-sized corollas. The shape of the tubers is oblong-oval. The surface is smooth, the eyes are shallow.

The peel is painted red. The pulp on the section is yellow, characterized by a high starch content of 10.1-15.5%. The mass of tubers can vary between 56–102 g. The fruits are almost the same in size. The taste is recognized by experts as satisfactory.

Tubers are used in the preparation of soups and snacks. Red Scarlett tubers are not very suitable for mashed potatoes, but the fried potatoes from them are simply excellent. The yellow pulp of the root vegetable is also very good in potato salad.

In the pursuit of new exotic delights, sometimes we forget about simple culinary recipes. For some reason, it seems that the more torment the dish delivers when cooking, the tastier the output. Somehow, a friend asked me for a recipe for a new salad, because my husband has a birthday, old friends gather, and everyone has long been accustomed to cooking it. The lady is quite elderly, in order to make her task as easy as possible, she advised me to cook potato salad according to my mother’s recipe. He is simple to the impossible. Still hot boiled potatoes are cut in circles across. Add fresh onions. In winter, you can take red onion turnips, and in summer use green. An important point: pour aromatic sunflower oil, season with coarse salt. As a seasoning take black ground pepper and dried purple basil. Everything needs to be mixed quickly. Hot potatoes suppress the aggressive taste and smell of fresh onions, while revealing the noble aroma of basil. Having met the wife of the birthday man a week later, I heard the indignant: “What have you done?! I spent half a day preparing French dishes, and all the guests ate only your potato salad! ”...

Characteristics of the Red Scarlett Potato Variety

Early table variety. Tubers form together. If you carry out the first digging a month and a half after the start of the first seedlings, then you can get 84 centners of young potatoes from a hectare. The second digging is carried out on the 55th day, which gives one hundred and eight centners of potatoes per hectare. These indicators are higher than the recognized standards for the Zhukovsky early variety. The maximum yield of Red Scarlett potatoes of 270 kg / ha was obtained in the Smolensk region.

Commodity yield reaches 82–96%. Tubers are well transported and stored. Keeping quality is 98%.

Potato variety Red Scarlett is resistant to cancer and is not affected by the golden cyst nematode. Tops can be affected by late blight, but tuber resistance to fungi is higher.

The variety is valued for its early rich harvest of even large, high-quality fruits and disease resistance.

Growing Red Scarlett Potato Varieties

Potato prefers to grow on slightly acidic fertile lands without the threat of stagnation of water. For potatoes, you can not use the site after cultivation of other solanaceous crops: tomatoes, peppers, eggplant. It is necessary to apply crop rotation when cultivating potatoes. Good predecessors for him are legumes and herbs. The best harvest, of course, is obtained by planting potatoes on virgin and fallow lands, but for summer residents who grow root crops for own use, it is enough to sow the field after autumn harvesting vegetables with white mustard, rapeseed or barley, then dig the seedlings into the soil. This simple procedure enriches the soil with organic compounds, improves the mechanical properties of the earth, prevents the development and spread of diseases, and inhibits the growth of weeds on the site. Root vegetables are also suitable as a precursor for potatoes: radishes, carrots, beets, as well as cucumbers and green crops.

Enough soil warm up to 5-7 ^aboutWith at a depth of 10 cm, how can one proceed to landing. Since early varieties of potatoes have a powerful growth force and are more demanding on the composition of the soil, under the variety Red Scarlett include the best land: fertile, lit, located on the southern or southwestern slopes. Ideal areas for potatoes are protected by a forest belt on the north side.

Landing

To obtain a good harvest, dry healthy medium-sized tubers without foci of rot, cracks and injuries are chosen as the seed material. It is advisable to plant already grown tubers. The seedlings should be dense, not more than 2 cm in height, otherwise it will be difficult to transport the tubers to the planting site without damage.

When planting, it is impossible to mix seed material of various varieties, since the height of the bush and the strength of growth can be different, and powerful bushes will inhibit the growth of other, undersized varieties of potatoes. And in cooking it is more convenient to use tubers of the same variety, since they have the same cooking time.

The mechanical properties of the soil are important for choosing the depth of planting. On sandy soils, in order to provide tubers with more moisture, seed potatoes are planted to a depth of 14–16 cm. In the Moscow Region, the soil is clayey and heavy, so the optimal depth here is 4–6 cm. Potato variety Red Scarlett grows equally well on any type of soil, so we determine the depth of planting each time based on specific conditions. The distance between the holes is usually 25–30 cm; 70–80 cm is left in the aisles.

The rows are oriented strictly from north to south so that the plants are fully illuminated by the sun during the day.

Video: an experienced gardener talks about planting potatoes in a furrow

If the soil is heavy, clayey or in a lowland, it is better to plant Red Star potatoes in ridges.

Video: Lyudmila Chebotar's advice on planting potatoes in ridges

Care and watering

After planting, the potatoes are not watered: Red Scarlett tubers have their own resource for germination, but weeds will definitely be happy with the extra moisture. Before emergence, a light surface loosening of the soil is carried out, in which the aeration of the tubers is improved, thin filiform roots of weeds are cut.

Instead of choppers and hoes, I’ve been using Fokin’s plane cutter for 5-6 years. With sufficient experience, it would be possible to deal with other tools, but now I have no fear of accidentally hitting the tubers themselves.

After the plants have grown and the rows are clearly marked, proceed to hilling. It is known that during the earthing up of potatoes, aeration and nutrition of the roots improves, the number of tubers increases. In hot time, it is carried out early in the morning or in the evening, after 18-19 hours. If it has not rained for a long time, then before planting, the planting is watered and the rows are loosened.

With heavy rains there is no need for additional watering. But if the weather is dry, then the potatoes are watered, since with a lack of moisture you can lose up to 25% of the crop.
Watering Mode:

1. After the appearance of seedlings at least 10 cm high.
2. During budding.
3. After the bushes fade.

The most common method of watering is through ditches, although now the drip irrigation method is becoming increasingly popular. Watered in the early morning or evening. Irregular application of water can lead to the formation of deformed tubers.

Two weeks before digging potatoes, the water supply is completely stopped.

Harvesting and storage

From planting Red Scarlett potatoes to full ripening of tubers, only 55-60 days pass. It is recommended to cut the tops a week before picking potatoes. At the same time, the soil dries out better and the further work of digging up tubers is facilitated, and the root crops themselves ripen during this time. If you intend to leave the potatoes on the seeds, the tops are cut two weeks before the harvest. After digging, the tubers are dried in air for 1-2 hours. After this, the potatoes are sorted, removing damaged, non-standard and diseased tubers. Laid for storage in a ventilated dry room, maintaining a temperature of 3-5 ^aboutWITH. Potatoes of the Red Scarlett variety are perfectly stored without losing their properties.

Reviews

Pistoletova said: ↑ I ordered seed potatoes of the variety Impala, Vineta, Red Scarlet, Leader and Luck.

I buy Vinetu for food. Tasty, very friable potatoes. I love medium potatoes, easy to peel, cook. But this potato is not suitable for olivier, everything will be messy. But in soup it boils well, ideal for roast, and puree just a fairy tale. Red Scarlet for salads is good, and I liked the soup. I myself will plant these 2 varieties.

Yes, the most delicious and productive potato is Red Scarlet, even in the driest season in 2012, large tubers grew.

In addition to the size, I did not find anything in the scarlet, although I can not say that it is very large, there is also a larger one, and because of the taste I will not sit on the scarlet anymore.

Review: Red Scarlet Potato - This is the Harvest! 07/30/2015 Advantages: Tasty, cheap, and a lot and a minimum of costs Minuses: Planted a little

... In principle, I didn’t particularly hope for any kind of harvest. I dug up a piece of land 4x4 in size.... I bought 3 kg of Red Scarlet potatoes from a Korean woman for 70 rubles.... I chose the depth of landing to a depth of one and a half matchboxes (7.5 cm),... added to each hole tablespoon of ash, added 0.5, there again a solution of manganese and put on top potato. At 1m. sq. I got 4 landings. As a result, I placed my 50 potatoes on 13 square meters. m. Beds covered last year's grass to a height of about 5 cm ...

After 25 days, the tops began to sprout... I dug up all my 50 bushes and collected 21.4 kg of ripe, pink, clean potatoes, without any internal diseases. And what a taste!!! Once again I explain: planted 3 kg, and dug 21.4 kg.

From the Northwest to West Siberian regions, the productive and early potatoes of Red Scarlett spread. The variety is resistant to diseases and pests, it is easy to grow. And to fry or boil potatoes - everyone decides for himself.