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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT ITOL.COM>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Market-farming Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1 - Planting Potatoes andWet Springs
  • Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 19:36:55 -0600

I have grown potatoes above the ground - it works well.

I have also found that the purple plant varieties of potatoes are more
resistant to potato beetles - although they are not as prolific (the purple
potato varieties) as some of the others, except Caribe is. Jill, Wisconsin

> Also, be careful about planting potatoes above ground. If you have
> voles, this could be a bad thing. However, if your predator population
> is up and the vole/mouse problem isn't massive, potatoes on top of the
> ground (or planted very shallowly) with heavy mulch is a winner. I
> prefer pre-sprouting (or at least placing them in the light and humidity
> for a week or two) and then growing potatoes in mulch as I never have to
> worry about the CO potato beetle. When I mulch and plant properly, no
> beetles (or very few). When I don't -- bad beetles.






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