The potato containers are growing at a fast pace. It seems we are filling them every week.
And that takes quite a bit of time considering the number of potato barrels we have.
The white barrels are just about full! We expect to be harvesting them in a couple of months. We dumped the original barrel already. It had been planted with left over store bought potatoes and because of chemical they are treated with they did not do well. Lots of green, but just a handful of potatoes. All of our other taters are planted with real seed potatoes, so we expect better. The ones in the field we have been harvesting, red and white potatoes, and we have been pulling in quite a lot per plant.
very cool. might try these next year. I got the mother earth ap for gardening. It helps with the companion planting. I planted 4 o'clocks. They supposedly kill japanese beetles.
ReplyDeleteOur Muscovy and Pekin ducks are great bug hunters. When the June beetles arrived our lawn was full of them. The ducks went crazy chasing/eating all day. When they got full they would nap in the lawn, then wake up and start chasing the bugs again. They are a hoot to watch. We also hang the Japanese beetle bags over the pond and cut open the bottoms. The bugs fall into bag and straight into the water where hungry fish and ducks snatch them up.
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