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A Feast For Crows
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As the title says my Golden Wonders bacame a feast for the local crow population this week. Was hoping to leave them in the ground for a few more weeks. Sow ed on 20/04/13, 161 days. Keep an eye on yours over the coming weeks. As the stems start to die down the birds have room to land among your crop.
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and they joy it too!
Are they eating the potatoes or are they after worms and insects? If there are a lot of them they are probably rooks.
It was my spuds they were after. Found the picked remains of a few ovewr the last few weeks. They came back this morning and wandered around looking but left empty handedor should that be emptu beaked.
A crow in a crowd is a rook.
We have alot of rooks round here and I have never seen them attacking potatoes though.
I've lived in the country all my life and never heard of it - they'll be after wireworms and leatherjackets - holes in spuds is slugs in my experience.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.