Queen Anna is a German potato that is successfully grown in our country on an industrial scale and in household plots. The variety meets all the requirements: productive, persistent, early ripe. The main thing is to plant it correctly and pay attention to care.
Grade description
The creation of breeders from Germany is a universal variety that has proven itself from the best side and bred for cultivation in adverse climatic conditions. It features high consumer qualities. The originator of the variety is the German company Solana. This potato is loved by simple vegetable growers and more. It is Queen Anne who is being grown in the residence of the President of Belarus. The variety was successfully tested in the Middle Volga region of Russia and was included in the State Register in 2015.
The external distinctive features of Queen Anne potatoes are as follows:
- The tubers are even, yellow. They have an elongated oval shape.
- Fruits are resistant to glandular and black spotting, mechanical damage. They are well kept.
- The flesh is creamy or yellow, hard. It does not fall apart during cooking and does not darken.
- The peel is dense and smooth, has small superficial eyes. Mistresses really like this characteristic - peeling such a potato is a pleasure.
- Potato shoots are spreading. The number of fruits on one bush is from 6 to 16.
- Bushes of Queen Anne are low, stem type, semi-standing or straight.
- The leaves are large, have a small fluff and a rich dark green color.
- The petals of the inflorescences are white, they densely cover the shoots.
Features and Features
Queen Anne is a mid-early universal variety (according to the degree of digestibility it belongs to type B), one of the highest-yielding among this vegetable crop. A large number of fruits develop on one bush, providing high productivity. It exceeds the standards of the Middle Volga region where the first samples were made. On the 45th day after germination, 100 centners per hectare were collected.
The general characteristics of the variety are as follows:
Characteristic | Value |
Average / Maximum Yield | 395/500 kg / ha |
Ripening period | 80-85 days (mid-season) |
The mass of one tuber | 85-100 g |
Starch content | 13-15% |
Product Marketability | up to 94% |
Crop keeping | 93% (up to 97%) |
Large neat tubers can reach a length of 10 cm or more. Queen Anna is notable for high marketability - at least 82%. Most tubers are suitable for sale. Root crops are easy to wash, convenient to transport and store. They lie until spring, subject to storage standards. Vegetable growers praise Queen Anne for her keeping quality.
The taste of the fruits is good, due to their texture they do not boil during heat treatment. The percentage of starch varies from growing weather conditions:
- in dry, hot summers, there is more starch - up to 15%;
- in cloudy, rainy summers, the concentration of the substance is lower - about 13%.
Fertilizers also affect the starch level and prevent it from dropping. Indicators can affect the quality of dishes prepared from potatoes. If the starch content is less than 14%, delicious salads and soups, mashed potatoes are obtained from the fruits. With a higher concentration of matter, potatoes are ideal for frying. You can make homemade chips from such potatoes.
Variety Queen Anna has exceptional resistance to a number of common diseases and pests:
Diseases | Degree of stability | Rating (on a 10-point scale) |
Potato Cancer (D1) | immunity | 10 |
Golden cyst-forming nematode (Ro1, Ro4) | immunity | 10 |
Common scab and silver | high | 10 |
Rhizoctonia | very high | 9 |
Black spotting | very high | 9 |
Wrinkled banded mosaic and leaf curl viruses (Y, Y-ntn) | very high | 9 |
Blackleg | very high | 9-8 |
Glandular spotting | high | 8 |
Tuber late blight | high | 8 |
Late blight | medium to high | 8-7 |
Pros and cons of growing
For the sake of the undoubted advantages of Queen Anne, gardeners grow on their sites. Tubers germinate well and quickly, even when frost sets in, they are tied together. The fruits are gaining strength and are ready for use after the first digging, there are practically no small copies.
Potato growers who cultivate Anna for sale, note its external advantages: all fruits are conveniently shaped, aligned, well transported, resistant to minor damage and lie for a long time.
Deriving this variety of potatoes, German agronomists tried to take into account many nuances and brought all the best to their brainchild. Therefore, Queen Anne has more strengths than weaknesses, but still there are disadvantages.
Grade Advantages | Variety disadvantages |
taste qualities | medium drought tolerance |
pest resistance | exactingness to watering |
high yield | single disease |
good germination | |
neat looking tubers |
How to grow and care for potatoes?
Planting and caring for German potatoes takes place in the traditional manner, not much different from agricultural techniques of other varieties. The only thing that a noble variety may require is additional moisture, and then in those places where the soil is too dry and there is little rainfall. In arid regions, potatoes need more frequent and plentiful watering.
Almost any soil in any corner of Russia is suitable for the variety. It can be grown on large plantations and small-sized manor sites.
German breeders adapted the variety to adverse conditions and difficult climates.
Place and date of landing
With a competent approach, Queen Anne tubers are planted only in warm, slightly moist soil. This is a guarantee of a good harvest. Like other early varieties, you can sprout potatoes starting in April, in mid-May, planting the first tubers in the ground.
Too high or low temperatures affect the germination of fruits. And if the soil is not sufficiently dry, it will make it difficult for oxygen to access the tubers. The weather for landing should be as follows:
- soil at a depth of 10 cm - about 10 degrees;
- air - at least 11 degrees.
When choosing a place for beds, it is important to take into account parameters such as light exposure, protection from strong winds, the absence of lowlands, where moisture will accumulate. Ideally, if the landing ridges are located from north to south, which will provide them with good warming. Soil quality is not important, Queen Anna can grow everywhere, but still (for a high yield) she prefers light, neutral acidity and loose soil:
- peat;
- black earth;
- sandy loam;
- loams.
At a high level should be the potassium content. The soil can always be improved: make sawdust or sand in loamy, greasy soil in the sands, and produce acidic soil. It is not recommended to plant potatoes in the same area for several years in a row. You can return to the beds only after 3 years. In addition, you should not plant this culture after the nightshade.
We extinguish acid soil
Potato precursors in the selected area may be:
- roots;
- cruciferous;
- onion crops;
- pumpkin.
Soil preparation
Preparing the soil for planting potatoes is necessary in the fall. The first thing you need to do: dig deep into the soil and get rid of weeds. If necessary, organic fertilizers are applied - in the form of ash. For 1 square. m requires 0.5 kg of ash and 1 bucket of compost. You can also use mineral fertilizers: superphosphate, urea, potassium nitrate.
In spring, the land is waiting for additional processing. The beds are leveled, grooves are cut in the soil or holes are made. At this point, it is advisable to fertilize the ground with fertilizing with the presence of nitrogen in the composition. In the finished dug holes (holes or furrows), a remedy for pests and diseases is added. The soil is very moist.
Since the variety develops many tubers, large distances are required between the holes - at least 20-40 cm in rows and rows. This is necessary for proper nutrition of each bush.
Preparing planting material
A week before planting potatoes in the soil, it is worth carefully preparing the seed. All tubers must be sorted, discarded as small root crops, rotten and damaged, for example, with mice. The rest are left for a few more days in a warm place.
Queen Anne reacts positively to solar lighting. In direct sunlight, the fruits turn slightly green. Corned beef accumulates in them - a harmful substance, because of which such potatoes are unsuitable for food, but germinate well.
With the appearance of the first sprouts, tubers can be placed in wells, having previously been treated with a growth stimulator (not necessary). Fruits for planting should be:
- whole;
- medium size (too large are divided in two, although this is undesirable);
- healthy.
In order to start biochemical processes, tubers must be warmed up. This is done 45-60 days before the alleged planting of root crops in the ground. This process is divided into two stages: dry and wet heating. The first is carried out at a high temperature of 28-30 degrees for 4-5 days, then the temperature drops to 15 degrees, stacked in boxes with wet sawdust. There is an active growth of strong young shoots and rudiments of the root system. After a month of such lying, root crops are completely ready for planting.
Landing Walkthrough
After processing the land for planting and tubers, the seed is planted in the ground.
Standard circuit:
- Marking is done on the site. Proceed to it by determining the distance between the rows. Then pull the lace for reference and mark the place for the first furrow.
- When planting root crops, it is important to observe the distance between them and leave between the rows a sufficient distance (60-70 cm) for the convenience of hilling.
- Recesses for landing are made on the furrows - not too large, but not small. Optimal - 15-20 cm. The size of the potato affects the depth of the pit: the smaller they are, the closer they "sit" to the surface.
- Only one root crop is placed in each well. If there are more, there will not be enough space for the bundled tubers, and the harvest will be small.
- They dig in the holes immediately so that the potatoes do not wind.
- Variety Queen Anna is useful to fertilize. Immediately after the tubers are planted in the soil, you can sprinkle the beds with a thin (2-3 cm) layer of peat.
Watering, hilling, fertilizing and weeding potatoes
Variety characterization involves such agricultural practices as: regular watering, hilling and loosening, weeding, picking flowers on shoots to form tubers, treatment from parasites and diseases, and other manipulations.
If you reduce the number of flowers on the bushes - cut them off - more tubers are formed.
The recommendations are standard, but experienced vegetable growers advise careful attention to regular procedures, especially irrigation. Resistance to heat and drought in the variety is medium. Landing in the southern regions of the country require special attention.
The rules are as follows:
- Watering the beds begins from the moment of tuber formation, i.e. in the phase of bud formation on the bushes. This is the most important period - from the appearance of the first buds to the cessation of growth of tops.
- Watering the beds should be at least once a week.
- The ideal system is spray, this avoids the erosion of roots.
- Humidification of the soil in the beds should be uniform.
- Watering potatoes is desirable in the evening. In the heat, this is strictly not recommended.
- The optimal amount of water per bush is 3 liters.
- The day after watering, the earth is loosened. So moisture will linger in it.
Gardeners pay much attention to loosening the soil, hilling bushes. The earth must be enriched with oxygen, and this can be achieved by regular digging. In addition, the roots are saturated with moisture and get all the necessary trace elements.
Queen Anna is unpretentious, but the hilling of the beds should be very careful, as the roots of the potatoes lie close to the surface. They can dry out in the heat, so manipulations should be regular.
As fertilizer for Queen Anne, organic and mineral substances are suitable. Optimal wood ash, manure, bird droppings, ammonia and potassium nitrate, complex fertilizers, etc. Fertilizing alternate with watering. Fertilize for the variety three times during the whole season:
- The first is during the period of growth of the stems.
- Repeated - before flowering.
- The third - after flowering.
Pest and Disease Control Methods
Queen Anna is quite resistant to the main diseases and dangerous pests inherent in this culture: potato cancer, nematode, late blight and tubers late blight, wrinkled banded mosaic, leaf curl. Natural protection is good, but it can be improved. So during the growing season, potato bushes must be treated with fungicides that protect plants from insects. Preventive spraying is carried out in dry weather.
Tomatoes, peppers have a common disease with potatoes. In addition, they attract the same parasites. Planting them nearby is a risk.
In the process of growth, the potato is processed. It is important to constantly monitor the presence of parasites on the bushes: Colorado potato beetles, larvae of tinctures, bear cub, potato moth and others. If the disease is detected at an early stage, emergency measures are taken - collecting parasites and spraying. In order to prevent, it is recommended to disinfect plants in advance with such preparations as:
- "Antizhuk";
- “On the spot”;
- "Bankol";
- "Bi-58 New";
- Decis.
Vegetable growers should consider that all work with chemicals must be carried out on time: no later than 2 weeks before the first harvest.
In order not to create favorable conditions for the appearance and reproduction of harmful insects, it is necessary to loosen the soil in advance and pull out the weed grass.
Harvesting and Storage
Queen Anne is an early ripe variety. 70 days after the first shoots, technical maturity sets in. Do not overexposure ripe root crops on the beds. After the potato bush is completely yellow and dried, you can harvest. By this time, the tubers will have reached the size and weight characteristic of the variety. Conditional maturity will come - when the fruits have gained strength, but the peel is still thin and lags behind the tuber.
Before digging potatoes, it is recommended to mow the tops. This will facilitate the process and more. If you make this manipulation in advance - about a week before the expected digging of potatoes - the peel will become denser and rougher, which will provide longer storage of the harvested crop.
Queen Anna is an early ripe variety, but it is stored well, and can lie for several months without losing its consumer qualities, if all conditions are met. A dry, dark place is suitable for storage.
Potatoes need:
- low positive temperatures;
- humidity not less than 70%.
Read more about proper storage of potatoes here.
Reviews of vegetable growers
German potatoes Queen Anna managed to please many vegetable growers and gardeners. Mostly positive feedback is left about him:
Marina, city of Poltava. We plant Queen Anna together with other varieties, and among them she is the undisputed leader. Bushes grow very quickly, do not require special care. Water them only in arid times and spud twice a season. The harvest is excellent: from each bush there are 15-20 tubers, all are even, large, smooth. Well stored, not affected by rot.I like the taste of potatoes: its texture is delicate and uniform, while cooking it does not fall apart. Young is better to boil, and mature - fry.
Ravil, rep. Tatarstan In our family we constantly grow potatoes and keep track of the latest vegetable growing. Queen Anna made the best impression of all! It takes only 1.5 months after planting, and you can already collect young potatoes. Root crops of the same size, with a smooth peel, they are easy to clean. In one year, they decided to leave the potatoes for storage - Queen Anne successfully lay until spring. It was possible to get good seed and continue planting the next year.
Catherine, Moscow region, summer resident. Variety Queen Anna has been planted for several years. It so happened that the site that she had prepared for her was painful. But I worked the soil in advance with a saturated pink solution of potassium permanganate, carefully sprayed the soil with it, especially in the dug holes. To increase the yield I used organic and mineral fertilizers: mullein and bird droppings, nitrogen. The result exceeded expectations. Queen Anna is a wonderful variety!
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The brainchild of German breeders - an early ripe variety of potatoes Queen Anna - is successfully grown in our country, meeting the high requirements of vegetable growers. It takes root and bears fruit in any territory in any years, although in lean crops - rainy and cold - some gardeners complain of a deterioration in taste. The quality of potatoes reflects the balance of nutrients. With proper care, the variety will thank gardeners with a rich harvest.
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