3 potato bags
5/5/12 The Google-fu is strong and it looks like my potatoes are being attacked by the Colorado Potato Beetle:
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef312.asp
5/5/12 Sprayed everything with Green Light Neem Concentrate
5/5/12 Inspected the bottom of the leaves and found a wee bunch of about a dozen small yellow eggs. Got rid of it immediately. Here’s hoping the Neem works because I really don’t want to have to bring out the “big guns”.
This planting has been archived (Other).
Sown from my Potato, blue Tubers.
Latest Milestone Harvesting
Quantity: 3
Name | Garden | Gardener | Location | Planted | Archived | |
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Potatoes, Blue Solanum tuberosum |
crochetkim |
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26 Apr 13 | 04 May 14 (Other) |
Harvesting day 80
Harvested all the potatoes because they started dying down. The biggest one is about 4".
item 6.0 lb
Flowering day 53
Just one flower so far but I’ll take it. :-)
Budding day 50
Being munched by some sort of black & beige striped beetle
Growing day 30
Showing True Leaves day 19
Sprouting day 15
Yeah, baby! The potatoes have sprouted!
Sown day 0
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