RE: Red Amaryllis - Day 247 - Haiku - My Entry for the “Natural Medicine Love it Up” Contest
The mice or voles will be less of an issue if you plant onions, garlic, chives or other alliums around the perimeter. French marigolds help as well.
Yes, sweet potato greens are awesome, and I've written about them before. I didn't realize they were edible until a few years ago, but now we enjoy them regularly, and I feed a fair amount to my animals as well.
I've been gardening organically for 30+ years, and sweet potatoes have frequently been a part of the mix. The only difference this time is that these are purple sweet potatoes, which I've been wanting to try for years. I've previously grown mostly Beauregard, which is an heirloom orange variety.
Thanks so much for your comment - I have no doubt it will help a lot if our less experienced growers, and I appreciate the time and effort you took to make it.
Hope you had an awesome Groundhog Day! ;-)
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Thanks for the pointers to keep the mice or voles out. I grow Japanese Red which have red/purple skin and light yellow to white flesh. They are soooo sweet that all I put on them is butter. They can be cooked any way you prefer. After ponderig the reply above, I think I'll post it on my steemit blog. Cheers.
Yeah, that's usually how I eat the Beauregards too, with just butter. Great variety. Now I'll have to try out the Japanese Red!
Gopher spurge is another plant that keeps out burrowing rodents, and does so over a wider area, but I usually stick with the alliums since I use a ton of them in my cooking.
I've also read that if you ring your fruit trees with chives, as the outer border of your mulch ring, they'll actually prevent grass and other weeds from invading the ring with their runners. Best of all, they're perennial, so they'll protect the borders for years.
I haven't done that yet, but that's part of my plan for this season, and if it works as advertised I'll definitely write about it, so that other gardeners can benefit as well. And, since we have lots of fruit trees to ring, I'll have plenty of chives and garlic chives to freeze, to dry, and to sell the extras. Win/win/win. ;-)
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