Cry me a river, with a small side of frys

[PhilaGardener]

Sorry to hear they got your crop!

 

[ninnymary]

I like to harvest about 300 pounds, so one raised bed isn't going to be quite enough Mary...

You eat that many potatoes?

Mary

 

[AMKuska]

Sorry when ever I hear about some ones fail in the vegetable garden, it always makes me think back to the dark age. Fail and you starve, glad for markets.

She wouldn't starve. She'd just be living on a diet consisting solely of venison and gopher. ;-)

 

[catjac1975]

I WOULD BE SO MAD!!!!

 

[Smart Red]

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.

 

[valley ranch]

Next year.

 

[so lucky]

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.

 

[thistlebloom]

You eat that many potatoes?

Mary

Not all at one sitting.

 

[flowerweaver]

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.

 

[thistlebloom]

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.

 

[lesa]

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.