It seems as if every year we manage to have one crop that totally flops or just gets ruined. Last year our poor trees kept on getting nommed, this year - our potatoes.
I planted three different types of potatoes in the front (one of which was the purple viking) and we were able to get those to produce some but that all came to a tragic end when the uppity bunnies decided to eat my plants and the cats decided to try to use the raised potatoes as a kitty litter and dig up my potatoes. So in an effort to save those we dug them up and we got a small harvest of about maybe 7lbs of potatoes from just 3 lbs. So not a good return, but we saved some of those that we harvested to plant for next season.
In the back we planted 4 different types of potatoes with zero return because the poultry all decided that they just had to eat our potatoes. We had also planted some organic sweet potatoes. About all that they all managed to do was sprout, get mounded up once before the birds all descended on them and left nothing but open trenches where potatoes used to be.
I did have some non-organic sweet potatoes sprout in the drawer. I planted those in the front yard and they seem to be growing well. We'll see if we get any by the time the cool weather really sets in. Hopefully next year will prove better for our potatoes.
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