OK smart gardeners

[skeets]

This year I have tried something a bit different with taters. Since this old body really cant bend and twist like it could 50 year ago. I tried some containers 55 gallon plastic barrels cut in half and filled with soil. The ones I have planted are starting to grow nicely,,,,, all but one! Almost every day this one tater has been removed from the barrel and dropped on the ground beside it. Pick it back up and put it back in the dirt covered and left alone. Always the same one no others are bothered just the same one every time. Now if there were kids close to me I would say they were having a go with me, but no kids in a 2 mile radius. Anybody have any ideas or have I discovered a keystone jumping tater?

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

My first guess was neighbor screwing with you…if that not it, then can you tell if any claw or teeth marks on the spud?(I would wonder some critter digging it out). Might be time to deploy Trail camera. Could be he ghost of a groundhog from seasons past taking their revenge on you, or maybe a raccoon or something would be my guess (skunks, raccoons, squirrel, groundhogs, could all dig it out easy enough).

 

[Bee-Positive]

If there's no wind springle some flour around it and look for tracks.
Grumps idea of a trail cam is a good one.
Temporarily remove that barrel and see if the next one in line get hit.

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

This year I have tried something a bit different with taters. Since this old body really cant bend and twist like it could 50 year ago. I tried some containers 55 gallon plastic barrels cut in half and filled with soil. The ones I have planted are starting to grow nicely,,,,, all but one! Almost every day this one tater has been removed from the barrel and dropped on the ground beside it. Pick it back up and put it back in the dirt covered and left alone. Always the same one no others are bothered just the same one every time. Now if there were kids close to me I would say they were having a go with me, but no kids in a 2 mile radius. Anybody have any ideas or have I discovered a keystone jumping tater?

without argument, 100% utilizing wrong type of pot.
you should know better.
did you get the seed potato from whole foods? one of those yuppie seed potato's i guess

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

yuppie seed potato's need to be planted in the new fangled yuppie pots.

 

[skeets]

You sooo funny !!! Nope red Pontiacs, (Pontiac taters not GTO,) and every day Russets and the russet , one bloody russet keeps jumping out, maybe next time I ll just leave it out!

 

[skeets]

Now that is interesting !

 

[OntheRidge]

I would suspect a bird, or a chipmunk.

 

[forky]

I've had racoons dig up newly planted spuds. They love to dig in freshly touched soil.
Keep replanting and the coon will move on, after he finds other things to do.

 

[Caden]

Squirrel?

 

[skeets]

It is always the same tater, I haven't seen any critters, so I dont know maybe the wife is trying to tell me something

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

It is always the same tater, I haven't seen any critters, so I dont know maybe the wife is trying to tell me something

Maybe the spousal unit likes to watch you pick it up and put out the vibe…I get that a lot too!

 

[Sidekick]

Put a camera pointing at it and you will know. Probably a squirrel looking for his burried nuts and finding a darn tater. Try Yukon golds someday. They're our favorites.

 

[skeets]

Maybe the spousal unit likes to watch you pick it up and put out the vibe…I get that a lot too!

Well thats what worries me, she passed away 7 years ago

 

[skeets]

Put a camera pointing at it and you will know. Probably a squirrel looking for his burried nuts and finding a darn tater. Try Yukon golds someday. They're our favorites.

Oh I like the golds as well, nice early tater,, but for some reason this year none of the feed stores had any