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Re: Growing potatoes?

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Cathy Crome wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

> I'm not sure about the spacing for sqft but we planted our about a foot
> apart zig-zap fashion in 2 -  2 x 16 beds.  One thing we did do is to line
> the bottom of the bed with a 1/4 inch mesh garden screen.  The last time we
> planted potatoes (8 years ago) we had a terrible problem with moles.  They
> had a real feast on the little new potatoes.  This may not solve the problem
> but it may help. They couldn't find one potato and eat the whole thing, they
> had to eat some of every single one in the bed!

Moles don't eat potatoes.  They are more purely carnivorous
(insectivorous, actually) than a cat.  They may have clawed bits out
of your potatoes in their burrowing, but they wouldn't have eaten any
of them.  You might check for other small burrowers such as gophers or
similar vegetarians.
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"No matter how deep you've buried it, never underestimate the ability
  of shit to find a fan"                      F. Paul Wilson, _Legacies_


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