The point of this post is, if you have or depend on a survival garden for food you never know when Mother Nature can wipe out a year's worth of food in minutes with hail, torrential rains, flooding, etc and all are unpredictable.
The other day we had 30mph winds with gusts to 35mph. My tomatoes and pepper plants were not damaged because they were either staked or in cages. Those plants survived because of the caging and staking, however one of my two potato plants (not caged) in buckets experiment had the vines knocked down. Will this plant survive and produce potatoes? I intend to leave it as is and see. Hate to think what would happen if I had a 100-foot row of potatoes growing and this happened!
The bucket/plant on the right survived the winds just fine, but the bucket/plant on the left was knocked down. I intend to leave it as is and see how the plant responds, maybe it will be fine. Also, this is the plant I intended to harvest ‘New Potatoes’ from and that should happen in a couple weeks or so.
Another photo from above showing the damage.
Things will work out. Hey just blame the liberals for the wind storm. After all they blame everyone else for their problems
ReplyDeleteGood reminder Mike, of the inconsistency and unpredictability of nature! I think they are a big reason why more people become discouraged about growing their own food. You will definitely learn something about potatoes though. That's always a useful consequence of unexpected things happening.
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