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Gardening

Thor_MN

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8. The beasty things up here are much bigger than aphids and hungry.

Reply to Aerows (Reply #7)

Tue May 6, 2014, 06:29 PM

May 2014

They will leave nothing but a inch or two of stem sticking out of the ground where your plants was in 48 hours or less. First couple times, I thought some dirtyname pulled my plants and stole them, until I realized the ground was undisturbed and there were these bitty little pieces of stem where the plant had been.

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Spud garden [View all] uppityperson May 2014 OP

Good luck, and watch out for hungry critters! Scuba May 2014 #1

Nuts, I was going to skip potatoes this year, but seeing that list enough May 2014 #2

That would be my garden. Huge beautiful plants one day and stems the next. Thor_MN May 2014 #3

Don't be ashamed Aerows May 2014 #5

I'm in Minnesota. Not the Red River Valley where my ancestors grew wonderful potatoes, but... Thor_MN May 2014 #6

It has to be the aphids Aerows May 2014 #7

The beasty things up here are much bigger than aphids and hungry. Thor_MN May 2014 #8

Awful! Aerows May 2014 #9

That is awful and, in a way, makes me feel better as this is one thing my critters/bugs ignore uppityperson May 2014 #11

No, not critters, although I wouldn't mind an owl taking up residence nearby. Thor_MN May 2014 #13

That sounds fantastic! Aerows May 2014 #4

Try the purple mog75 May 2014 #10

I grew them one year and didn't like them, as well as being very difficult to harvest since this is uppityperson May 2014 #12

Ah, potatoes - I've had mixed luck through the years due to less than optimum conditions. NRaleighLiberal May 2014 #14

Yukon gold, tastes amazing. lululu May 2014 #15