[Market-farming] Potatoes

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Thu Jul 10 21:15:13 EDT 2008


On Jul 10, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Stephanie Nosacek wrote:

>  I can tell you what it is because I had the same problem. It's 
> raccoons! They were digging grubs out of my rabbit manure and since 
> the grubs are beetles, the japanese kind, I thought I'd leave it alone 
> and let it do it's thing. It isn't bothering me or the rabbits.
>   
>  Until I found out that it likes potatoes. Then it marked my corn and 
> bean patch. There's scat all over one end of the rows. They are 
> pooping and urination on my beans and corn. So the raccoon is staking 
> out territory.
>   
>  Steph
>

I'll pass this on too; but the only thing that's being dug up in this 
case is one potato at a time. No holes elsewhere from digging for 
grubs, no scat left behind to indicate what was doing it; and no 
disturbance of other nearby crops. And the potato isn't eaten; at 
least, not to start with (why they eventually disappear isn't clear, 
but if the main reason for digging them up is to eat them, I don't know 
why the eater would bounce them around for two nights and not eat them 
till the third).

Are the raccoons at your place digging up one potato at a time and 
leaving them on the surface of the ground?


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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