Tummers - Potato Dosing Hopper

Last year, I saw an ad for some gorgeous, modular wooden potato-growing bins. I don’t remember where I saw it, or who made them – but I do remember that they were nearly $100 each. You could have knocked me over with a feather. A hundred bucks? For wood boxes?? That I was going to fill with dirt??? No, thanks. I mean, I love the idea, but I know how much wood actually costs. I also know how to use a saw and a screwdriver (or a pneumatic brad nailer, in this case) so there was

5 Steps to Potato Planting Success Select a certified seed potato variety and sprout potatoes until they are approximately 20-40mm long. Prepare your soil with organic matter like compost and sheep pellets. Add a layer of vegetable mix to plant into. Potato planting time is from September-December in New Zealand. Feed your potatoes every four weeks to replenish nutrients. Mound your potatoes as shoots grow, until they are approximately 300mm tall to protect them and encourage tuber development.

Unlike most plants, potatoes aren't grown from seeds but from an existing potato. That makes them an interesting outlier, and a plant that needs to be handled differently from most. It's common to start seeds indoors to get a jump on gardening season, for example, but that's seldom done with potatoes. You can start a potato in a Mason jar, but it's not usually an option you'd use for your entire potato patch. Video of the Day Why Grow in a Jar? You can't effe

These boldly striped beetles and their voracious larvae love to feast on potato plants, skeletonizing the foliage. Often, only the leaf veins remain intact. Colorado potato beetles eagerly consume the foliage of all potato relatives including eggplant, ground cherry, pepper, tomato, and tomatillo, as well as related weed plants. The yellow-orange beetles are 1/4 long, with black stripes on the wings and black spots just behind the head. The red-orange humpbacked larvae have a row of black spots