You planted WHAT? Potatoes between Orange trees

[david.bz]

Might be of interest to some. I planted some orange trees last year but it take usually 4 years before they are in production. This year I decided to try planting potatoes in between the orange tree rows and it looks like it works. What's next? I tried some watermelons and they are also looking good. I attached a picture that I took yesterday. IMAGE_006.jpg

[montana]

pretty interesting . Where are you located? couldn't tell from the picture that well did you hill your row of spuds and how many rows did you get between your tree rows . How far away are your tree rows . Do you have to spray your spuds for blight?

Sorry for all the ? just curios lots of seed spuds growen here but I don/t think I have ever even seen a ornge tree that I remember anyway..

[Snipe]

This looks a lot like Florida.

[david.bz]

Hi there. Thanks for all the questions. I had all these questions before I moved to Belize, but there wasn't an excellent forum like combine forum to as ask the questions on. #1, The spuds are pre-hilled to 14", the seed is treated with gabraic acid and then hand planted. The rows are 24" the seed spacing is 12". Trees are 30' apart and 18' in the rows. The pre-hiller I built is only 2 rows and I did 3 sets per row of trees. The orange tree root system is very shallw so I didn't want to get too close to the orange roots. Yes blight is an issue. We spray every monday and thursday. We rotate between bravo, diathane, and a systemic metalosate. We also have an abundance of bacterial wilt in the soil natural because it never freezes here and so the soil borne diseases are difficult when it rains. We get about 140" of rain annually with a dry season usually january through may. I will try to post a picture of some orange trees for you. Enjoy your morning.IMAGE_008[1].jpg

[Snipe]

Ha ha I was only out by a couple of country's. Thats a fair bit of rain your soil must drain well.

[david.bz]

It is a natural rolling landscape, which is difficult to see in the picture. The soil that I farm does have an excellent drainage system. I don't have to do much drainage except in the pineapple. They are very very sensative to standing water so in the pineapples I have to do lots of drainage work.

[wetfarmer]

do you need an on farm pineapple tester? or perhaps cerveza counter? i'm yer man!

[david.bz]

Awesome! let me know when you would like to start!!! But please be warned, there are some nights when it gets down to 70deg.f so you might want to dress accordingly!!!

[wetfarmer]

How long have you been there ? Did you farm somewhere temperate before ?

[montana]

I had a friend that went on a 14 month honeymoon his favorite place in the whole world was Belize. He said that it reminded him alot of where we lived at the time South East Alaska We averaged 165 inches a year . He said it was nice and warm though and very friendly people. I could take all the rain in the last 10 years here in Montana and wouldn't be even remotly close to that.

We have to do alot of irigation for are spuds here. Are one big advantage we have I guess for dieases is when it get down to -30F . I guess that cold is good for somthing . What other spud dieses do you have problems with? do you just sell them local ? Anyone else growing spuds? Thanks hopefull one of these cold winter I can visit