METHOD OF GROWING EARTH APPLE Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A01G1/00 A01B79/02 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of agriculture. The method involves the cultivation of earth apple as a single crop, consists in treatment of soil, applying mineral fertilisers, planting tubers, row cultivation, harvesting of green mass and tubers. In the first year tubers are planted with the potato planting machine into prepared combs or ridges. In the following years planting is carried out with the machine harvesting of earth apple tubers, removing a part of the planting fraction of the flow heap and directing it to the planting module of the harvester, which drops the tubers to the required depth for the zone within the given pitch of planting in rows and closes them with soil, forming lines on planting combs. During spring treatment between rows the necessary dose of complex mineral fertilisers is applied into combs. In the last year of cultivation tubers are harvested. In the following spring the green mass is removed to begin the process of new tuber growing.

EFFECT: method to increase the yield of tubers of earth apple and green mass when cultivated as a single crop.