Secondary weed infestation in potato plantations

Weeding of potatoes, whether chemical or mechanical, ends at the stage of row cover. The effectiveness of protecting the plantation will never be 100 percent, and furthermore, there is always a certain seed bank in the soil waiting for conditions to germinate. In the event of destruction or emergence of potato plants on plantations, secondary weed infestation occurs, taking advantage of gaps in the rows of cultivated plants. Potato plantations are commonly infested by species such as common lambsquarters, common sowthistle, common ragweed, common chickweed, field pansy, field bindweed, common chickweed, smallflower buttercup, black nightshade, common sowthistle, chickweeds, field peas, and volunteer cereals and rapeseed. However, usually by July, they are no longer a problem, regardless of whether chemical, mechanical, or combined technology weeding was conducted. However, sometimes the problem returns. Potatoes in Polish fields In Poland, at its peak, in the 1960s and 1970s, ...