We have been growing sweet potatoes in a raised bed for the last few years and getting great crop(~100 lbs) every year, until this year. We dug up our bed today and found only a few (~5 lbs) sweet potatoes.
We are puzzled by what happened to the sweet potatoes. The plants were very healthy and we were expecting a bumper crop. One thing I did notice over the summer is that there were lots of ants on the leaves, although the leaves looked pretty healthy. Did the ants eat the potatoes? When we dug up the garden today, we did not see any ants.
We are really disappointed by this and are wondering if we should grow them again next year. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We have been growing sweet potatoes in a raised bed for the last few years and getting great crop(~100 lbs) every year, until this year. We dug up our bed today and found only a few (~5 lbs) sweet potatoes.
We are puzzled by what happened to the sweet potatoes. The plants were very healthy and we were expecting a bumper crop. One thing I did notice over the summer is that there were lots of ants on the leaves, although the leaves looked pretty healthy. Did the ants eat the potatoes? When we dug up the garden today, we did not see any ants.
We are really disappointed by this and are wondering if we should grow them again next year. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.