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Post by Mumsey on May 4, 2019 20:27:21 GMT -5
Never even thought to check the potatoes while at Dad's today. But we were in fishing mode, and nothing else mattered!
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Post by deckman22 on May 10, 2019 13:31:42 GMT -5
Like my onions the taters had a poor yield this year. There was some kind of smallish green grasshopper bug, like a small katydid that I saw out there. All the plants started to turn yellow and die off so I dug them all up so taters were small as the plants had not flowered yet. After looking up causes for this on the internet I read that this bug spreads a virus the does this. Probably got around 20 lbs of red potatoes when I expected at least double if not triple that. Ever the optimist I looked at this as an opportunity to get in something else in their space a bit earlier than expected.
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Post by tom 🕊 on May 10, 2019 14:44:58 GMT -5
I looked at this as an opportunity to get in something else in their space a bit earlier than expected. I follow potatoes with field peas. |
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Post by Mumsey on May 11, 2019 5:12:58 GMT -5
When I was a kid, there used to be a pea farmer about 1 mile from where Dad lives now and the land is now a working limestone quarry. During the harvest, Mom would always have us kids watch for the truckloads of peas going by on their way to the vinery. More often than not, some of the vines would fly off the truck and Mom would drive us up the road and collect them! We ate lots of good peas.
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Post by tom 🕊 on May 11, 2019 8:03:09 GMT -5
When I was a kid, there used to be a pea farmer about 1 mile from where Dad lives now and the land is now a working limestone quarry. During the harvest, Mom would always have us kids watch for the truckloads of peas going by on their way to the vinery. More often than not, some of the vines would fly off the truck and Mom would drive us up the road and collect them! We ate lots of good peas. How garden peas are picked today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XOIxtub6KsThis appears to be in the UK. Field pea (UK) = garden pea (American). The field peas I follow potatoes with are "cowpeas" in UK speak. I plan to pick garden peas this morning. |
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Post by lilolpeapicker on May 11, 2019 8:15:27 GMT -5
I have been doing potatoes in bags over the last 2 years, Not real successful as yet but I do better every year. I use the fabric bags and planted 3 or 4 potatoes. This year I bought smaller potatoes with 1 or 2 developing eyes. So I planted 4 into the smaller bags and 5 into larger ones.
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Post by desertwoman on May 11, 2019 8:48:41 GMT -5
us kids watch for the truckloads of peas going by That reminds me of stories my uncles used to tell. It was during The Depression of the 30's and, as kids, they would follow the coal carts and gather lumps of fallen coal. |
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Post by lilolpeapicker on May 11, 2019 10:01:38 GMT -5
Survival is a strong motivator
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Post by binnylou on May 21, 2019 13:13:31 GMT -5
I found a potato leaf with lots of tiny, white eggs, removed the leaf, got busy doing something else. Now I can’t find the leaf. I’m just wondering what insect will be hatching.
Ideas?
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Post by tom 🕊 on May 21, 2019 13:33:31 GMT -5
I found a potato leaf with lots of tiny, white eggs, removed the leaf, got busy doing something else. Now I can’t find the leaf. I’m just wondering what insect will be hatching. Hard to identify, since many pest of potatoes have white eggs. It depends on size, shape, and kind of whiteness -- pearly white, dull white, dull pearly white, smooth and translucent white,... content.ces.ncsu.edu/insect-and-related-pests-of-vegetables/pests-of-potatoIf elongated in shape, potato leaf hopper. If tiny and elongated and white when first deposited, flea beetle. Flea beetles are the most common potato pest for me, but none this year so far. |
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Post by binnylou on May 21, 2019 13:43:53 GMT -5
tom 🕊, that’s a good source of info. There’s links at the bottom of the article for other veggies. Thanks.
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Post by deckman22 on May 23, 2019 20:34:51 GMT -5
I like peas but no way they would grow this time of year. I planted lima beans in half the area the taters were in and two cantaloupe mounds in the other. Ants got to most of the young lime beans and I had to replant, hopefully the next round do better.
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Post by tom 🕊 on May 23, 2019 20:50:54 GMT -5
I planted lima beans in half the area the taters were in Have you grown butterpeas? They are a small-seeded bush lima and do well for me as a late crop. Stoop labor to pick, though. |
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Post by deckman22 on May 23, 2019 21:41:38 GMT -5
No Tom I have not. The idea with the lima's was to be able to make butterbeans tho, a popular alternative to pinto beans at BBQ joints here. When I put the chickens up after that last post I looked in that part of garden I noticed I put green beans next to the lima beans, ants never messed with them.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 10, 2019 0:08:57 GMT -5
When checking the potato plants today, I found blossoms forming on the ones in the raised bed. Can't wait. There is nothing like the first batch of potato salad made with home grown potatoes.
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