[Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late

Allan Balliett aballiett at frontiernet.net
Sun Jun 7 21:28:57 EDT 2009


It's funny. I saw my first snails in the garden this year. Nice fat 
ones in the favas. And then I saw a thing like a one-sided razor clam 
on the fence. My son tells me he's been seeing a lot of them, in 
empty water buckets and such. I don't think I've seen that mollusk 
before. And, yes, there are big slugs moving into most everything 
now... Allan in WV

>No solution on the potatoes Allan, except ours are not even in the ground
>yet!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm so sick of rain I don't know what to do...we're getting
>it every day...and not just a little.  Last week we had hail that finished
>off this planting of spinach and all of our lettuce, damaged other crops but
>they will recover.  Didn't even have enough to warrant the trek to market.
>And omg, the slugs, these things are HUMONGOUS....who knows a good market
>for slugs???????
>
>Liz
>Horseshoe Gardens
>
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>[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Allan
>Balliett
>Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 6:05 PM
>To: Market Farming
>Subject: [Market-farming] Hilling Early Potatoes Late
>
>It's been a crazy season here in the mid-Atlantic so far with more days lost
>to rain this season that I remember having ever happened before.
>
>I'm WAY behind on most everything. For about a month now it's been too wet
>to hill the potatoes abd at $5 a bale, straw isn't an option.
>
>I have the following varieties planted, probably 600 pounds of each:
>
>Yukon
>Kennebec
>Red Pontiac
>Red Norland
>Russet
>irish Cobbler
>katcdin ("phonetic" spelling)
>
>I'm going to try to find some mulch hay to cover the spuds this week.
>
>The plants are tall and beautiful
>
>All the seeds were planted shallowly.
>
>IT's quite likely that if I don't get some hilling or covering done, I won't
>get many potatoes this year.
>
>Most of these potates were in the ground by April 1
>
>The Cobblers and Katcdin have nice big blooms on them right now.
>
>Do you think I'll be wasting my time to try to mulch or hill the potatoes
>now?
>
>Thanks
>
>-Allan in WV
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