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This planting has been archived (Other).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
Photos
Linked Plantings & Stash Items
| Name | Garden | Gardener | Location | Planted | Archived | |
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Potatoes, Blue Solanum tuberosum |
crochetkim |
 MALVERN AR, Unite...
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26 Apr 13 | 05 May 14 (Other) |
Milestones
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04 Jun 2012
Harvesting day 80
Harvested all the potatoes because they started dying down. The biggest one is about 4".
item 6.0 lb
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08 May 2012
Flowering day 53
Just one flower so far but I’ll take it. :-)
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05 May 2012
Budding day 50
Being munched by some sort of black & beige striped beetle
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15 Apr 2012
Growing day 30
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04 Apr 2012
Showing True Leaves day 19
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31 Mar 2012
Sprouting day 15
Yeah, baby! The potatoes have sprouted!
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16 Mar 2012
Sown day 0
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