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Smart Red

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I couldn't imagine 300 pounds of potatoes all going bad. I am happy about my small harvest of maybe 40 pounds of spuds. Good or bad, it is a mere pittance next to your loss! Early harvest time should allow you to get a good deal on purchasing spuds in quantity.

Since getting sick, my garden has become a sampler and test plot rather than a source for total freedom from the grocery. Such a loss is nothing to make light of. Sorry.
 

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Gosh, Thistle, sorry to hear about your crop failure. It is especially disheartening when, as you said, you saw that gopher mound but didn't think to do anything at the time. I can't count the number of times I have noticed something and didn't act on it immediately, to my detriment.
It just sounds like you weren't meant to have a potato crop this year, with the deer, gopher and scab.
 

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Oh no! That must have been disappointing. I had about 60 potato plants and almost all the spuds rotted in the 52 inches of rain. What we harvested was the size of my thumb and would fit in a mason jar.

Too rocky here for gophers, but the fire ants have taken a liking to corn. Still, field mice are my biggest nemesis. I'm like the all you can eat buffet in this arid land.
 

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Oh no! That must have been disappointing. I had about 60 potato plants and almost all the spuds rotted in the 52 inches of rain. What we harvested was the size of my thumb and would fit in a mason jar.

Too rocky here for gophers, but the fire ants have taken a liking to corn. Still, field mice are my biggest nemesis. I'm like the all you can eat buffet in this arid land.

Oh, sorry about your crop failure too Flowerweaver.
I would have thought my soil was too rocky, but the gophers around here have little dozer blades for noses.
 

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Oh no!! That is terrible news! That is the good and bad part about potatoes...you really don't know what you have until it's too late! If the tomatoes are going to flop- you pretty much know it, right away. We have only dug our white- red still in the ground. So far- the deer here don't seem interested. They are out there, but have so far only walked on top of the plants.
 
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