Re: Oh Woe! Potato Wilt!
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- Subject: Re: Oh Woe! Potato Wilt!
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- Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 22:11:50 -0700
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>Julianne,
>
>At the risk of sounding a bit silly, what climate do you live in, when
>did you plant the potatoes and have you ever grown potatoes before?
>
Not silly a'tall.
Upper East Tennessee. The earliest went in the second week of April and the
last were in by the end of April.
Where we are planting:
Backyard - in tires and four foot round plastic thingies. We are filling
both with composted leaves which we collected last fall. There is another
patch which had been a garden site before, where we planted in rows. Again
into basically a layer of composted leaves, mixed with store bought topsoil.
Those are in raised beds.
The earliest 'taters are in the rows about knee high, and show no signs of
distress.
It is showing up in the plastic things, and also in the later planted rows.
Have grown them - but not in these conditions.
Steve, thank you for the reply and any insight you may have.
Julianne
