Clean green leaves
Not bad flowers, for a potato! But what is really exciting is the total lack of Potato Beetles - the bane of anyone who grows potatoes. We rotated all potatoes to outlying gardens this year, to break the cycle of beetle invasions in the main garden - and it is working beautifully!
I would put up a shot of a beetle-infested plant just for interest, but it is too ugly a sight. The larvae that eat the leaves are orange and slimy, and rather than use chemicals, we were removing them by hand. This is so much better; we should have done it years ago.
Clean green leaves
Not bad flowers, for a potato! But what is really exciting is the total lack of Potato Beetles - the bane of anyone who grows potatoes. We rotated all potatoes to outlying gardens this year, to break the cycle of beetle invasions in the main garden - and it is working beautifully!
I would put up a shot of a beetle-infested plant just for interest, but it is too ugly a sight. The larvae that eat the leaves are orange and slimy, and rather than use chemicals, we were removing them by hand. This is so much better; we should have done it years ago.