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Re: Growing potatoes?

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

The only thing I know is that we uprooted an entire nest of babies and had
to dispose of them.  I didn't see any signs of anything else there.  But the
entire row was affected.  Never had any gophers (their holes are sometimes
obvious) and most of the critters we had did their damage above ground.
Rabbits, birds and such.  We were in a relatively rural area but within a
subdivision, so none of the larger animals were a problem.  Where we are
now, my dog does a good job of making them keep their distance!
Whatever it was, it did it's work from underground, so maybe I have detered
them or maybe it was an exercise in futility!?!?!
Thanks
Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: <wdg3rd@home.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Growing potatoes?


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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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.
> --
> Ward Griffiths      wdg3rd@home.com      http://members.home.net/wdg3rd/
>
> "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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