Something has been eating my tomatoes, and over the weekend I saw the culprit. A woodchuck waddled over, reached up, bent a branch down and grabbed a tomato! How can I keep woodchucks out of my vegetable garden?
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To avoid potato diseases, buy certified seed potatoes. In home gardens, potato scab can be caused by recent manure application; crop rotation is the best way to avoid it. Most other potato diseases, including late blight, which caused Ireland’s Great Famine, are encouraged by excessive water during the growing season, so try to plant your potatoes where soil drainage is not a problem.
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