Re: Odd reference to potatoes
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Odd reference to potatoes
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:52:13 EST
In a message dated 1/31/00 1:03:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, mtalt@clark.net
writes:
Thanks, Marge. I suspected it might be an "old wives tale" too. I wondered
if potatoes are such heavy feeders that they leave the soil too poor to
support even weeds. But then I know there are weeds that flourish on poor
soil. Lots of cultivation doesn't necessarily solve weed problems either
because it brings to the surface old weed seeds just waiting to germinate.
Bill Lee
<< Well, Bill, that's a phrase I've read many a time. I've grown
potatoes, too, in the past. I've never noticed any magical
properties there, as a potato bed will get weeds growing in it. The
only thing I've thought is that potato beds tend to get very well
turned over in the process of hilling for them and then digging out
the tubers and, perhaps, it is this that "cleans" the bed of weeds
by disturbing the soil sufficiently to discourage most of them and
bury the others.
Rather think it's really one of those old wives tales of
gardening...another gardening myth, tho'...
>>
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