Hi friends,
so this year i will have to continue buying potatoes, my first attempt to grow them was a disaster! In spring i tilled a piece of my pasture:
Then i covered it with used duck bedding and compost, tilled it again, let it sit during some frosty weather, tilled it again and employed some forced laborers to search for insects, larvae and apply some more fertilizer:
After tilling again, drew four rows in the ground and planted ~45 seed potatoes.
Then we got one of the wettest springs ever here in West Virginia and only three plants emerged from the ground. End of June, i removed all the weeds, buried some new seed potatoes, only to find them dug out and eaten a week later! No clue if that was a 'coon, deer, rabbits or the wild turkeys.
So today i visited that patch again and discovered that one the plants has developed fruits:
Which makes me suddenly doubt that this is in fact a potato-plant, it now looks more like a tomato-plant to me, what do you think? Here are two more pictures of that plant:
Potato plant #1 looks like this:
And plant #2 looks like this:
If that isn't a potato-plant but a tomato, how did it got there? Could it be that after the ducks had some tomato-scraps one of my ducks pooped out a seed in that spot? Do Tomato-seeds survive a ducks digestive system? - That would make my ducks better gardeners than me!
so this year i will have to continue buying potatoes, my first attempt to grow them was a disaster! In spring i tilled a piece of my pasture:
Then i covered it with used duck bedding and compost, tilled it again, let it sit during some frosty weather, tilled it again and employed some forced laborers to search for insects, larvae and apply some more fertilizer:
Then we got one of the wettest springs ever here in West Virginia and only three plants emerged from the ground. End of June, i removed all the weeds, buried some new seed potatoes, only to find them dug out and eaten a week later! No clue if that was a 'coon, deer, rabbits or the wild turkeys.
So today i visited that patch again and discovered that one the plants has developed fruits:
Which makes me suddenly doubt that this is in fact a potato-plant, it now looks more like a tomato-plant to me, what do you think? Here are two more pictures of that plant:
Potato plant #1 looks like this:
And plant #2 looks like this:
If that isn't a potato-plant but a tomato, how did it got there? Could it be that after the ducks had some tomato-scraps one of my ducks pooped out a seed in that spot? Do Tomato-seeds survive a ducks digestive system? - That would make my ducks better gardeners than me!
