More about the #potatoes and their berries/seeds.
The terrace potatoes are through fruiting, and almost all of the garden potatoes have fruited and been ripped out. The Amarosas are still blooming, so I’m letting them stay.
I made the potato patches this spring, when I realized I’d seriously overbought seed potatoes. I covered a section of lawn with cardboard and newspapers, then buried it in a foot of half-composted horse manure and wood shavings bedding. The seed potatoes were planted either directly in the compost or in a little scoop of potting soil in the compost. I watered them occasionally with a whirly sprinkler and they grew pretty well, at least until the chickens left the front yard and moved to the garden and started digging in them.
I had a couple of volunteer potatoes in one of the raised beds that produced some very tasty Yukon gold types, but every single potato I planted in the ground in the garden was gnawed by worms. So frustrating! So gross! I thought something might be wrong when the chickens invaded the potato patches and refused to stay out - they only dig where there’s bugs to be dug!
So I ripped out all the vines and gross tubers, and watered the big patch really, really well, and planted it in daikon radish seeds. Right now the chickens are going through it one more time. The soil looks amazing! Either the chickens will keep tilling it for me or they’ll move on and the daikon will break up the subsoil. Both would be good for that bed, I think. I’d love to get daikon going for the winter, but I can replant for at least a month.
The garden potatoes have made another 13 oz of berries. This is *shameful* since there were like five times as many plants in the garden, but ok, that’s fine. Berry pics next.
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