The sad garden season continues...
I pulled the cages from around 4 varieties of potatoes, where the tops have all died back.
Red thumb did fairly well, with little damage.
Purple Majesty were really hard to spot in the soil, and probably half of them had some sorts of nibbles taken out of them. I found slugs on one, so those are a likely culprit.
Nicola was a "free sample" where I only got one seed potato to try. It's a long season variety, so it shouldn't have died back yet, but I still got 4 nice tubers from it, and 2 that were nibbled by a vole.
Sierra, a yellow fleshed russet, should have been later in the season as well, but I think it just got too much shade to produce as well as I would have hoped. There were only a couple of munched tubers, but they were all smaller than I would have hoped.
I still have about 10 more varieties, several that are still growing strong, to harvest. I also have 4 large cages that I used to grow a mix of everything that started sprouting in storage this spring.
It certainly looks like I have a bit of a learning curve left when it comes to pest-proofing my spuds.
Red thumb did fairly well, with little damage.
Purple Majesty were really hard to spot in the soil, and probably half of them had some sorts of nibbles taken out of them. I found slugs on one, so those are a likely culprit.
Nicola was a "free sample" where I only got one seed potato to try. It's a long season variety, so it shouldn't have died back yet, but I still got 4 nice tubers from it, and 2 that were nibbled by a vole.
Sierra, a yellow fleshed russet, should have been later in the season as well, but I think it just got too much shade to produce as well as I would have hoped. There were only a couple of munched tubers, but they were all smaller than I would have hoped.
I still have about 10 more varieties, several that are still growing strong, to harvest. I also have 4 large cages that I used to grow a mix of everything that started sprouting in storage this spring.
It certainly looks like I have a bit of a learning curve left when it comes to pest-proofing my spuds.