[Market-farming] Case of the Strange Walking Potatoes

Richard Robinson rrobinson at nasw.org
Thu Jul 10 10:05:08 EDT 2008


 On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:28:57 -0400, Road's End Farm wrote:

> A friend of mine just came by with a puzzle. She had recently, and belatedly,
> planted some overly-sprouted potato sets. Most of them are growing fine; some
> haven't leafed out yet. Something has been coming by, each night, and digging
> up one potato. It's always one of the ones that haven't leafed yet. It's
> always only one potato. The next day, my friend replants it; the next night,
> the same one gets dug up again. After two or three replantings, the dug up
> potato not only gets dug up, but disappears; and whatever it is moves on to
> another potato; not the next one in the row, but another one that hasn't
> leafed yet. So far, this sequence has continued through about three potatoes.

I think a raccoon with a sense of humor is trying to mess with your friend's head...

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 Richard Robinson
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