All about Amanandine Potato

The Amanandine potato has an excellent culinary quality. It is good when it is cooked and does not blacken once cooked. It also offers different cooking possibilities: steam, suburb or saved, with or without skin. Thanks to its excellent characteristics, the Amanandine potato is one of the best -selling varieties of potatoes on the market.

Specific characteristics, culture, plantation, maintenance, here is everything you need to know about this variety of very famous potatoes.

Description of the Amanandine potato

First of all, it is good to underline that it is a variety of French potatoes, Obtained from the intersection of two varieties of potatoes : Charlotte, who also remembers it very much and Mariana. It is a variety that can obtain, according to the decree of 05 February 1998, the designation of controlled origin (AOC) «Potato dell'Aile de ré». It was the clause and the seeds of Unicopa who created it.

Being an initial variety, the Amanandine potato has a good yield. Indeed, Become mature in just 90 days.

Its tuber has an oblong form, regular and elongated, with shallow eyes. His skin, just as his meat is pale yellow. Its stem has low pigmentation nodes and moderately pigmented intermediaries, with developed wings.

As for its leaves, they are moderately divided and are dark green colors. They lied and oval with small flyers. Finally, its flower is purple red and is covered by partially pigmented floral pimples.

How to cultivate the Amanandine potato?

The cultivation of the Amanandine potato is performed in two phases:

If you want to cultivate this variety of potatoes, you will have to first have a pre-worm-air amanandine potato at your disposal. It is therefore necessary, before thinking of planting, germinating the potatoes. Otherwise, you can also burn this step and go to sowing immediately by purchasing pre-longing almonds. They are easily in trade.

If you choose to sprout your Amanandine potatoes alone, you will need unexplored tubers that are also available on the market and cheaper than pre-welfare potatoes. If you have unused potatoes in your garden during the winter, you can use them very well until they are in good condition.

Once you have the non -paraded tubers, put them in a Cage, on a single layer so as not to hinder their germination. Then, Put them in a place at temperatures between 10 and 15 ° C And that light of the day can reach. Otherwise, you can always turn on the potatoes, for example in a hut or in a garden cellar.

Germination generally requires 4 to 6 weeks.

In general, the ideal time to plant the Amanandine potatoes is April. However, those who live in a slight climatic region can also do it during the month of March.

This variety of potatoes likes the sun, as well as deep floors. So, don't forget to take into account your preferences when you plant almonds. This will promote their development. To be more precise, place pre-lavy potatoes in a furrow about 15 cm deep. Sweep them about 40 cm and take care of the fact that the germ is positioned upwards.

Once the potatoes are planted, it will be necessary to keep them during their development to obtain a good harvest. The Amandini require the batter, for example by bringing the earth on the auction when they increased by 25 cm in height.

This is to avoid their green. They are also very sensitive to viruses and parasites that we will have to observe the plants from time to time and carry out some operations so that these microscopic beings do not destroy them.

Parasites and diseases of the amanandine potatoes

Their main enemies are DoryFores and Mildiou. But apart from these, there is also an insect called Taupin which is also harmful to them, just like the common scabies. We will see them one by one with some suggestions to avoid them.

Doryfore, also called potato doryfori, are large potato green beans, both in the larval and adult state. These are bombed insects, orange yellow with black stripes, about 1 cm long. In the adult state, they eat the foliage. They also feed in the same way in the larval state. Doryfores put orange eggs under the leaves of the potatoes that make up the food of the red larvae with black points.

So that the nights do not damage the almonds, We advise you to plant aubergines next to it. It is the favorite food of these small insects that will constitute traps for potatoes.

Spraying the pyrethre is also effectiveBut only at the beginning of the attack. When the Doryfore have already invaded the foliage of your potatoes, collect their eggs, larvae and adults, then destroy them. Subsequently, observe your plants regularly and put this operation when necessary.

This cryptogamic disease is caused by an Eucharic microorganism of the Pythiaceae family, long considered a mushroom. It occurs first from yellow spots that turn into brown spots on the upper part of the foliage of the potatoes.

Sometimes there is also a white unhappy under the leaves. When there is no treatment, the disease progresses quickly and the entire plant becomes dry. At the same time, the tubers of the almonds are covered with tasks, superficial, therefore, in depth, until they rot.

The mold, due to its rapid progression, constitutes a dangerous disease for potatoes, in particular the Amandini who are more sensitive to others. Especially because it is very difficult to treat it. The best is to make preventive treatments that are simple despite being very effective. You just have to treat the leaves of the almonds with Porridge di Bordeaux after a storm or wet time that is in favor of the proliferation of mold. Also spraying Litothamne to strengthen the natural defenses of the plants.

It is a bacterial disease that affects the tubers of the amanandine potatoes. It manifests itself with superficial lesions on them, sometimes sinking in the form of craters.

In order for this to influence the potatoes, be careful that the ground in which you will plant them is neither limestone nor too acidic. It also brings humus regularly. Finally, before going to culture, he sows a green fertilizer.

These insects are in particular present in wetlands. These are their larvae who are harmful to the amanandine potatoes. These are verses of wire 25 mm long and yellow color, with brown head. They devour young roots, then they dig narrow galleries in the tubers.

The solution to eliminate them is biner regularly. In addition, Bury Traps consisting of potato peel at the ground level. In order for this method to work wonderfully, you have to renew the bait from time to time.